Following on from her Silver medal at the European Championships in July, Abbey Burton has added a second World Championships Silver - a repeat of 2005 - to her collection.  In very difficult conditions she recorded a score of 62, five targets behind runaway leader Rossi of Italy, and one target ahead of Ray Bassil of Lebanon.

Great Britain has won the Palma Match for the World Long Range Championships in Ottawa, by a margin of 25 points from South Africa, with Australia in third place. 

There were wins also for the Veterans and Under-25 teams in their respective championships.

David Luckman became the individual World Champion three days earlier, with Richard Jeens also making the last ten, ending up in eighth place after the ten-man final.

Full details can be found on the Great Britain Palma Team website. 

Steve Scott has secured a fifth Quota Place - this one the second in Men's Double Trap - for Great Britain at the Beijing Olympic Games.  Scott qualified for the World Championship final in sixth place, with a qualification score of 141, one place ahead of 2000 Olympic Champion Richard Faulds.  A final round of 48 pulled the Briton up into equal third place at the end of the final, but he lost out 4-3 to Joshua Richmond of the USA in the shoot-off.

 

The British trio of Scott, Faulds and Pater Wilson have also won the Bronze medal in the team event, behind Italy - who set a new team World Record - and China.