Olympic Trap

Onwards & Upwards

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The Italian maker Guerini continues to maintain its market share in the UK based on quality of manufacture and presentation at prices that compete favourably with their competitors. The new Summit Ascent Trap model is no exception, and also has

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Place Your Bets

Alexey Alipov

We are now in the Olympic Year and, so far as the shooting sports are concerned, which countries will be competing in London and how many quota places they have has mostly been decided. Winning a quota place in one

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Student shots fight hard

GB Uni, Ollie Baron, Rory McAlpine, Will Marshall, Mark Hampton, Shenzhen, China.1

Over 10,603 athletes from over 150 countries descended on China for the World University Games and the GB Trap shooting team fought the heat to stay in the contest that saw a number of World Cup standard performances

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Top of the shots

20111004_DT150_012Peter Wilson

Only the world’s top shooters were invited to compete in the ISSF World Cup Final and some four GB shooters made the cut

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Little Britain

Massimo Fabbrizi is the 2011 Olympic Trap World Champion

Britain may be small but we try our best to prove that we are Great – why then do we not show a dominance in international shooting events as we do in other sports, asks Vic Harker

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Straight scores for Olympic glory

Young talent is coming through the ranks as the Junior Ladies take team silver

The World Championships in Serbia wasn’t the fruitful event team GB had hoped for, but top-level performances mean the Olympic dream is still in full view

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OT and nappies

Caroline's husband is a keen archer and supportive of her shooting

I really admire women who juggle shooting and nappies – it can’t be easy shooting a physically and mentally demanding sport and raising a young family

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Wilson sets new record

Britain's Double Trap top shots: Peter Wilson, Tim Kneale, Steve Walton, Steve Scott, Matt French and Richard Faulds

Scheduled events for all the Olympic disciplines at Southern Counties turned into a mini Commonwealth as all the big names showed up and Wilson set a new GB record

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GB hopes for Olympic glory

Peter Wilson

As the build up and excitement for London 2012 increases we look at who is in line to fill Great Britain’s quota places in the GB squad and what they have to do to get there

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A game of numbers

Vic Harker looks at our Olympic record and examines why we won’t improve on our international performance until we start to promote the Olympic disciplines

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