The Scottish 50m Rifle Championship was held over the weekend of the 14/15
July 2018 at the Denwood range in Aberdeen. The weather at the weekend was
exceptionally good like the shooting. There were 46 competitors from
Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and Norway. In
addition to their medals, first and second in the Open events received
ammunition from RWS, who kindly sponsor this event.
Saturday was the Men's Prone and the Women's 3 Position events. In the
Men's prone, the top score from the elimination relays was 621.5 from Jim
Godsell. The Championship shoot, which was a 60 shot match, saw Ken Parr
win the Open Championship with 624.2, with Tony Lincoln only 0.3 behind in
second place. The top scoring Scot was Tom Diggle and the top junior
Matthew Man.
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50m Rifle Prone Men |
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Open |
Confined |
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GOLD |
PARR Ken |
DIGGLE Tom |
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SILVER |
LINCOLN Tony |
MACLEOD Ruaraidh |
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BRONZE |
BARGERON Michael |
THOMSON Leonard |
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50m Rifle Prone Junior Men |
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GOLD |
MAN Matthew |
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SILVER |
WARREN Tom |
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BRONZE |
MOORE Max |
The Women's 3P saw some impressive shooting in the qualification relay with Jennifer McIntosh and Katie Gleeson both shooting 1160 but Seonaid McIntosh qualified with a score with 1170, only 5 points short of her own Scottish record. The ISSF final saw the same 3 challenging for the medals, with Seonaid 1st, Katie 2nd and Jennifer 3rd. Abby Warren was the top junior in 6th place.
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50m Rifle 3 Positions Women |
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Open |
Confined |
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GOLD |
MCINTOSH Seonaid |
MCINTOSH Seonaid |
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SILVER |
GLEESON Katie |
MCINTOSH Jennifer |
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BRONZE |
MCINTOSH Jennifer |
SHARP Sheena |
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50m Rifle 3 Positions Junior Women |
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GOLD |
WARREN Abby |
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SILVER |
WATFORD Katie |
Sunday proved to be a bit more tricky as the wind got up and the scores edged down a bit. The events were the Men's 3P and Women's Prone. The top qualifiers were Michael Bargeron, Ken Parr and Dean Bale with scores of 1157, 1154 and 1153 respectively.
We then switched to the Women's Championship, which was a 60 shot match. The wind took some interesting turns during this event. The honours went to Jennifer McIntosh (619.2), Zoe Bruce (618.9) and Katie Gleeson (618.8) with only 0.3 between first and second and 0.1 between second and third. The top junior was Isabel Stark.
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50m Rifle Prone Women |
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Open |
Confined |
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GOLD |
MCINTOSH Jennifer |
MCINTOSH Jennifer |
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SILVER |
BRUCE Zoe |
SHARP Sheena |
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BRONZE |
GLEESON Katie |
MCINTOSH Seonaid |
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50m Rifle Prone Junior Women |
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GOLD |
STARK Isabel |
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SILVER |
ROY Eden |
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BRONZE |
O’CONNELL Neasa |
Then to finish the day we had the ISSF Final for the Men's 3P. In this
Dean Bale won through with a score of 457.8, Michael Bargeron was 2nd and
Ken Parr 3rd. The top Scot was Ruaraidh Macleod and the top junior was
Matthew Man.
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50m Rifle 3 Positions Men |
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Open |
Confined |
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GOLD |
BALE Dean |
MACLEOD Ruaraidh |
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SILVER |
BARGERON Michael |
SHAND Robin |
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BRONZE |
PARR Ken |
MCINTOSH Donald |
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50m Rifle 3 Positions Junior Men |
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GOLD |
MAN Matthew |
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SILVER |
MOORE Max |
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BRONZE |
WARREN Tom |
A big thank you to all those who helped to organise and run the event. Thank you also to all of the competitors and we look forward to seeing you next year.
Report by Gavin Walker, Photos by Donald McIntosh
If you want to access your graphical score card then go to the megalink results and scroll down on the left hand side to the "Relay Results", find the relay(s) and click on the name - this will open an image of the score card.
