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Husthwaite who had put in an impressive 94 on the blue. Those who were tired of sweating
their way round the Suffolk ground had reason to be cheery on day two with the conditions being somewhat cooler. However the wind was a little stronger but at least the fl ies had disappeared, for now at least. Ben Husthwaite shot the red course in the morning and had laid down the gauntlet to the rest of the fi eld, shooting another 94 to fi nish on 188, quite an achievement over 30 stands. George also shot in the morning on blue and he shot a 94 to put him within two targets of Ben. Bloxham fi nished on 182 as did Nick Hendrick and Richard Bunning who had shot out of his skin to produce a 97 on the red course, quite a recovery after his fi rst day 85. Tom Mack faded away with an 84 but Martin Myers and Paul Simpson kept the pressure on to fi nish on 183 and 187 respectively. So with the top seven ready to shoot
Top: Mark Winser shot well to take the prelim Sporting, middle Mark Marshall 2010 Sportrap World Champion. Above: It just wasn’t to be for George!
it out for the title, the crowd gathered to watch a display of exhibition standard shooting. However a glance at the targets shown for the fi nal made it clear that there would be no opportunity for showboating. They were extreme in the truest sense of the word and although they were meant to test the best of the best it looked as if even these ‘immortals’ of the shooting world would have their work cut out. So it was to be and Nick Hendrick came off worst only managing to connect with seven of the 25, not that his score was anything to be ashamed of considering the level of diffi culty. Richard Bunning managed to connect with 15 as did Martin Myers whilst Bloxham went one better on 16. George broke 14 as did Paul and Ben, but because of the respective scores each carried into the fi nal they remained in the order in which they had started, Ben taking the win. Once the prize giving was over Ben
was happy to share his thoughts on the event and on those tricky super fi nal targets. “For me they were perfect because I won,” he said, laughing, “but in all
seriousness when you have 400 people staying on to watch a fi nal, they are there to watch the best shots in the world break targets not miss them. That having been said I think that whatever birds had been thrown the result would have been the same. Personally I always think that shoot-off targets should resemble those seen in the main event and there was nothing like the fi nal targets anywhere else on the ground. After I had shot the fi rst stand and was three ahead after eight birds, I was pretty sure I could win. I just knew I had to play the numbers game and shoot for safe points rather than going all out for a big score. As to the two courses, I felt red was the better of the two, it was very fair and the targets were always very visible. The blue course felt a bit cramped with some diffi cult to pick up. Five and six on blue (as already mentioned) were hard going and I didn’t even get a shot off at the second bird of my fi rst pair on fi ve. Overall the course was very good – you have to remember that we shot 550 targets throughout the week and, to be stood here criticising just two stands out of the whole event, tells you that the target setting was on the whole very good. As you can imagine, I am very happy to win the event which for me completes the set, which along with the World Sportrap and World FITASC is something that no one else has ever done so that was always going to put a smile on my face.” In ladies, Cheryl Hall took another
world title (170) ahead of Becky Bream (158) and Diane Sorantino (156) and in super vets there was more good news, Paul Buckley (156) taking the gold ahead of Paddy Howe (155) and Brian Hodges (154). Vets was another all Brit affair, the trio of Bidwell (174), Stirzaker (171) and Chapman (169) taking the honours. Sam Green took the juniors win (180) ahead of Harry Seal (175) and Phil Gray (173) to keep the union fl ag fl ying and Daniel Wicker (161) prevented Hunter Milligan from making a clean sweep of the colts by taking the win by six targets over the American. Team England also took the seniors and super vets gold as well as silvers in veterans, juniors and ladies. The Welsh team picked up bronze in the senior team event and gold in the veterans. Despite a dearth of individual medals
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the American team managed to pick up the Waktare Cup which was awarded to the country with the highest overall score along with gold in ladies and juniors, silver in seniors and super vets and bronze in veterans. Full results:
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