Clay Shooting

HEADING FOR TOKYO!

Another month and more competitions have been and gone! For Olympic Trap and Olympic Skeet, September brought the European Championships at Trap Concaverde (Lonato) near Lake Garda in Italy. This was the second major championships to be held at Lonato this year – the World Championships were held at the beginning of July and there was some great British success at that competition.

Olympic Trap was up first with Olympic Skeet following, with senior and junior women and men competitions, individual, team and mixed team events. Between Trap and Skeet there was also a Double Trap Grand Prix event. As well as championship titles and medal glory,

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