Last updated: 23rd August 2008
Welsh Airgun Association News
Links page updated 
(Added 23rd August 2008)
Olympic Games Museum added.
Scottish Pistol Association amended.
Calendar page updated (Added 28th July 2008)
2008 Welsh Airgun Open Championships (Added 24th July 2008)
The entry form and booklet for the 2008 Welsh Airgun Championships are available and may be downloaded from the Welsh Open web page. The address for entries has changed today (24th July), however, post will still be collected from the previous Dale Street address.
CSF(ED) Gibraltar 2008 (Added 5th July 2008)
The following people have been selected to represent Wales in the Commonwealth Shooting Federation (European Division) Championships at the end of September in Gibraltar:
| Air Rifle Men |
David Wright |
Daniel Court |
David Williams |
| Air Rifle Women |
Rhian Floyd |
Verity Thomas |
Helen Warnes |
| Air Pistol Men |
Ian Harris |
Ian Morris |
Craig Auden |
| Air Pistol Women |
Danielle Jones |
Nicola Wilson |
Aly Rowell |
Record Scores updated (Added 14th July 2008)
5 Nations Cup 2008 - Germany (Added 29th June 2008)
The 2008 5 Nations Cup competition was held this year at Schwalbach (10m and 50m events) and Saarwellingen (25m cartridge pistol), hosted by Germany, from 20th to 22nd June 2007. Weather was pretty good with high temperatures on the Saturday and Sunday.
A successful air pistol and cartridge pistol training camp was held in Switzerland prior to the 5 Nations, organised by Al Green and Steve Pengelly. It is proposed to expand the number of Swiss training camps from 2009 onwards.
Most of the team travelled by bus through the tunnel, the outward trip being held up with a tanker fire on the motorway in the UK and roadworks on the continent. However, the return journey went well with no hold-ups.
Although not listed below, there were medals won in the smallbore rifle events. Clay target competition events will return to the 5 Nations Cup in France for 2009.
Event
10m Air Pistol Junior Women Gold Danielle Jones
10m Air Pistol Junior Women Bronze Zoė Kennerley
Several PBs were achieved by other competitors over the weekend.
The 2009 5 Nations Cup will be hosted by France at Eurostand over the same weekend as this year.
English Airgun Championships 2008 (Added 12th May 2008)
Danielle Jones entered in the 2008 English Airgun Championship, held at Bisley over the weekend of 3 - 5 May, and took 1st place in the Air Pistol Women's and Junior Women's events, beating all the BS Pathway Juniors.
Hannover (Added 12th May 2008)
ISCH Hannover was held at the end of April - Verity Thomas shot a very nice 387x400 in the 10m Air Rifle Womens event (Jenny Corish also competing in the same event representing GB), Emma Davies and Nicola Wilson competed in the 25m Pistol event, whilst Helen Warnes competed in the 10m Air Rifle Junior Women event.
At the 25m European Cup, held in Hannover at the beginning of May, after the ISCH competition, Al Green and Steve Pengelly competed for GB in both 25m Standard Pistol and 25m Centrefire Pistol.
New 25m Pistol record score (Added 12th May 2008)
Nicola Wilson, shooting in the April 2008 GB Trials in Switzerland, posted a new Welsh Record Score for 25m Pistol on day 2, 549x600.
Scottish Air Pistol Championships 2008 (Added 12th May 2008)
Only two Welsh competitors entered the 2008 Scottish Air Pistol Championships, Danielle Jones and Ian Harris. Danielle shot steadily over the weekend and entered the Junior Ladies Championship Final in 4th place and came out 3rd for Bronze and a podium finish.
Ian also shot steadily and went into the Championship Final in 4th place and stayed 4th. Ian also took 2nd place in the Falling plate match.
There was some apprehension that the weather would close in, but the snow falling on the Sunday morning came to nothing and the journey back South proved uneventful.
Isle of Man 2008 Easter shoot (Added 26th March 2008)
The WTSF took a team over to the Isle of man for the annual Easter shoot.
There was some success for Wales in the airgun events, with several people posting new PBs.
AIR PISTOL
Coral Kennerley
1st in Senior Womens, New PB in 40 and 60 shot competitions
2nd in Junior Air Pistol
Zoė Kennerley
3rd in Senior Womens, New PB in 40 and 60 shot competitions
4th in Junior Air pistol
Shawnee Bourner
5th in Senior Womens two points off a PB
5th in Junior Air Pistol
AIR RIFLE
Helen Warnes
1st in Juniors with a new PB in 40 and 60 shot competitions
Daniel Court
2nd in Juniors with a new PB in the 60 shot competition
5th in Senior 60 shot event
British Airgun Championship 2008 (Added 26th March 2008)
Rifle
Dave Wright just missed out on a Olympic Final place in the Mens Championship, as did Verity Thomas who would have made 8th place, however, the NSRA only took the top 6 for the Womens Olympic Final. Rhian Floyd was placed 9th on countback.
Junior Women's Air Rifle Championship
Helen Warnes made the Olympic Final in 4th place.
Pistol
Junior Women's Air Pistol Championship
Wales had three places in the 8-person Olympic Final, Danielle Jones at 4th, Coral Kennerley at 7th and Zoė Kennerley at 8th.
ISSF 10m 5 Target and ISSF 10m Standard Pistol Championships
Emma Davies placed 3rd in both the Womens 5 Target event and the Womens Standard Pistol.
In the Mens events, Ian Harris placed 4th in the 5 Target event, equalling his PB and the Welsh Record score.
Intershoot 2008 (Added 20th February 2008)
The majority of the Association's team flew from Cardiff with few problems, although finding the contact at Schiphol airport for the coach to the hotel took some time. The group that travelled from Birmingham had their flight cancelled, then the replacement flight was postponed, with the group eventually arriving late in the evening and being expected to shoot first thing the next morning.
Several people posted new PBs, Coral made the Olympic Final on Day 1, Shawnee made the Olympic Final on Day 2 and the Senior ladies team took 2nd place on Day 3.
The banquet on Friday evening was unusual, we arrived to find that the organisers had deliberately not provided enough chairs - the idea was that we should move around the room and meet everyone.
Grand Prix of Plzen 2008 (Added 14th January 2008)
Siān Corish competed in the 2008 Grand Prix of Plzen as part of the GB team to take part in the 10m Air Rifle. Siān equalled her own Welsh 40-shot Senior Women's 10m Air Rifle Record Score (394x400) on the Friday followed by a 392x400 on the Saturday.
Team Nomination Policy document amended (Added 1st January 2008)
Issue 9 of the WAA Team Nomination Policy document has been published and is available on the Documents page.
Surrey Airgun Open 2007 (Added 1st January 2008)
Siān Corish shot a score of 592x600 in competition 2 at the 2007 Surrey Airgun Open to set a new Welsh Record Score in the Senior and Junior Womens Air Rifle 60-shot match categories.
2007 was Siān's last year as a Junior.
RIAC 2007 (Added 15th December 2007)
A team of thirteen travelled by air from Heathrow to Luxembourg to compete in RIAC 2007. Both the date and venue have changed from the previous RIACs, this year the venue was in Strassen at the Centre de tir ą l'arc, a large sports hall normally used for archery.
The three days of shooting saw good performances from the team with a number of PBs. Rhian Floyd's 391x400 on the first day was an MCS for the 2009 CSF Championships.
There was a strong Welsh showing in the Olympic Finals, with Coral and Zoė in the Finals on each of the three days with Coral moving up to 2nd and a podium finish on days two and three.
Welsh Airgun Open 2007 (Updated 7th November 2007)
The 2007 Welsh Airgun Open was again held over the last weekend in October at the Welsh Institute of Sport in Cardiff. As in 2006, the rifle events took place in the Jubilee Hall and the pistol events in the Upper Hall.
The competitions took place using the Associations new tables and changers - the changers purchased with a generous Grant from the Sports Council for Wales.
The 2007 Open Pistol Champion is Mick Gault and the 2007 Open Rifle Champion is Chris Hector. In the Junior category, the 2007 Open Pistol Champion is Lauren Hill and the 2007 Open Rifle Champion is Melanie Flowers.
Prizes were presented this year by Carl Eriksson, a Director of Litts of Newport, who also presented DJ Litts two Perpetual Challenge Cups, one for rifle and one for pistol, for the most improved Welsh under 16 - the pistol cup for 2007 goes to Shawnee Bourner.
The Jim Perrin Shield for 2007 goes to Ken Parr.
In the Welsh Closed Championships, Ian Harris took the Air Pistol title and Siān Corish the Air Rifle title. Siān also set a new Welsh Record score of 586x600 in both the Junior and Senior categories in the Womens Air Rifle 60-shot match in her last year as a Junior.
Separate Olympic Finals were held for Seniors and Juniors in both rifle and pistol.
Full results may be downloaded from the Competition Results page.
The 2008 Open Championship will be held over the weekend of 1 - 2 November 2008 in the Main Hall at the Welsh Institute of Sport.
CSF(ED) 2007 Jersey (Added 6th October 2007)
A reasonably large Welsh team travelled from Birmingham, Bristol and London Gatwick to Jersey for the 2007 Commonwealth Shooting Federation (European Division) Championships. Steve Pengelly travelled via Switzerland to collect the .22 pistols and at the end of the Championships had to fly Jersey - London Gatwick - Zurich - UK to put the .22 pistols back in the safe before returning to the UK.
Although nearing the end of the tourist season the hotel stayed open and the weather, although initially chilly, was reasonable. Airgun events took place in St.John and saw a number of good performances, with Helen Warnes raising her PB on the Sunday in the Air Rifle Pairs match.
The cartridge pistol events took place at the Jersey Pistol Club 25m range at Crabbe.
Event
10m Air Pistol Men Gold Ian Harris
10m Air Rifle Men Silver Martyn Blake
10m Air Rifle Men 3rd Daniel Court (only Gold and Silver awarded in the event)
10m Air Pistol Women Bronze Rachel Gravell
25m Standard Pistol Gold Steve Pengelly
25m Centrefire Pistol Gold Steve Pengelly
Martyn Blake and Dave Wright were 1st in the 10m Air Rifle Men Pairs and Helen Warnes and Verity Thomas took 2nd place in the 10m Air Rifle Women Pairs, although, unfortunately, there were not enough entries to award medals.
Welsh Livery Guild award (Added 27th August 2007)
The Association has been granted an award of £1,000 by the Welsh Livery Guild. The award will go towards development of juniors within the Principality.
15th Junior International, Bisley (Added 11th August 2007)
Countries taking part this year in the 15th Junior International, held at Bisley from Tuesday 7th - Thursday 9th August were Great Britain, Denmark, South Africa, Germany (Oldenburg), Ireland and the United States.
Several PBs were posted by the Welsh competitors.
Wednesday
Coral Kennerley had a really good Duel phase in the 25m Sport (Air) event and took 2nd place and Silver for a podium finish.
Thursday
In the 10m Air Pistol, Coral Kennerley went into the Olympic Final in 3rd place and retained 3rd place for a second podium finish of the week and a Bronze medal.
Welsh Airgun Open 2007 (Added 4th August 2007)
The 2007 Championship will be held over the weekend of 27 - 28 October 2007 at the Welsh Institute of Sport, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.
The entry form has been emailed out and is also available in PDF format from here:- Welsh Open Airgun 2007
Some people will not have received an email with the entry form - a number of emails have bounced back, some as the addresses don't exist anymore and others complaining that the email was too large in size.
5 Nations Cup 2007 - Belgium (Added 27th June 2007)
The 2007 5 Nations Cup competition was held this year at Zwevegem and Beveren-Leie, hosted by Belgium, from 23rd to 24th June 2007.
The team travelled by bus through the tunnel, the outward trip being uneventful, but the return journey suffered from delays due to heavy traffic.
The airgun and cartridge pistol successes are listed below. In addition to those listed below there were also medals won in the smallbore events. No clay target competition was held this year due to problems with using lead shot in the area around Zwevegem.
Event
10m Air Pistol Junior Women Gold Rachel Gravell
25m Pistol Junior Silver Rachel Gravell
25m Centre Fire Pistol Gold Steve Pengelly
25m Standard Pistol Gold Steve Pengelly
The 2008 5 Nations Cup will be hosted by Germany over the same weekend as this year. It is likely that the bus will go out on the Thursday and return on the Monday.
British Pistol Club Championship (Added 27th June 2007)
The British Pistol Club's 50th Anniversary Championship was held at Bisley in changeable weather, one minute bright sunshine, the next torrential downpour. Entries were well up and, indeed, the highest for some 10 years. This year's winners in each event received a bottle of Mumm Champagne.
Event
10m Air Pistol Women Gold Rachel Gravell
10m Standard Pistol Gold Ian Harris
25m Sport Men (Air) Silver Al Green
50m Free Pistol Bronze Ian Harris
Scottish Air Pistol Championships 2007 (Added 9th April 2007)
Rachel Gravell travelled to Tulliallan Castle, Kincardine, with a small team and came away with the 2007 Scottish Junior Women's Air Pistol Championship title, after entering the Olympic Final in 1st place.
Web site minor re-design (Added 10th March 2007)
Minor web site re-design.
March 2007 newsletter now available on line (Added 1st March 2007)
The March 2007 newsletter is now available from the Newsletter page.
The Newsletters are in Adobe Acrobat format. Members should email the Secretary if a password is required for earlier newsletters.
2008 Commonwealth Youth Games (Added 9th December 2006)
The 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games will be held in Pune, India, from 12 - 18 October 2008.
Events included will be athletics, badminton, boxing, shooting, tennis and weightlifting. Other sports may be added, e.g. swimming.
Shooting events are: Men 10m Air Rifle, 50m Rifle Prone, 50m Rifle 3 Positions, 10m Air Pistol, 25m Sports Pistol, 50m Pistol, Trap, Double Trap and Skeet.
Women 10m Air Rifle, 50m Rifle Prone, 50m Rifle 3 Positions, 10m Air Pistol and 25m Sports Pistol.
Competitors will need to be under 19 at the date of the Games. As of this update there will be one person per event, however, people will be allowed to double up to enter another event.
Member's Agreement and Code of Conduct
The Committee has recently introduced a Member's Agreement and Code of Conduct document that all team members will be
required to read and sign.
Team members under the age of 18 will need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian on team
trips.
Updated: 23rd August 2008
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