The British team competing in the Nordic Junior Championships on the island group of Öckerö to the west of Gothenburg won four medals on the first day of competition.

Scotland's Jen McIntosh led the way, setting a new Personal Best and Scottish record of 393 in the Women's Air Rifle to enter the final in second place, three points off the lead.  After nine shots she had closed the gap, but fired her only nine of the final for her last shot to drop back into Silver medal position, setting a new Scottish Final record of 496.4 in the process.

 

 

 

Ken Parr took the second medal of the day, with Bronze in the Men's Three Positions Rifle with a score of 1147 & 94.6. Ken entered the final in third place, with a 13 point lead on fourth, and his place was never in doubt thoughout the additional ten shots.

 

 

 

In the Women's Air Pistol, Vicki Mullin and Catriona McGregor qualified for the final in second and third place respectively.  Both were disappoined with their finals, Vicki taking the Bronze medal, Catriona ending up in sixth place.  Vicki and Catriona did take Gold medals however, winning the team event along with Danielle Jones.

 

 

 

 

The remainder of the Championships passed without further British medal success.  Ken Parr, in the Men's Air Rifle, and Sheree Cox, in the Women's Prone - the latter somewhat unusually with a ten shot final - were fourth in their events, while the Women's Prone team visited the podium with second in the team event, however only Gold medals were awarded.

 

The Men's Air Rifle team of Ken Parr, James Huckle and Danny Evans did raise the British record in their event, adding eight points to the previous record of 1726 set way back in 1992!