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British Open Sporting & Sportrap (Day 3)
We were thrilled to welcome shooters for the third day of the CPSA British Open English Sporting and Sportrap Championships! With warm, sunny weather throughout the day, participants enjoyed the courses immensely. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, with many praising the fantastic conditions and stunning grounds, expertly prepared by course setter Jamie Peckham and the dedicated team at E.J. Churchill Swinton.
Congratulations to today's prize draw winners, Drew Christie, David Grayson, and Abbie Coutanche! A big thank you to our sponsors for their generous contributions to the prize pool: Swatcom, Eley, Browning, Teague Precision Chokes, Schöffel & Le Chameau!
Nick Hendrick showed exceptional skill today, leading the scores across both courses for most of the day, an incredible feat in a single day. In the British Open Sportrap, he shot the highest score of 95ex100, with the next closest score being 87. In the Sporting event, he was tied for the top score with Kevin Jobling at 108ex120 until the final moments, when Billy Greenwood and Mark Winser posted last-minute scores of 110ex120 to take the lead.
To view the live scores during the competition visit cpsa.co.uk/boespscores and cpsa.co.uk/bostrscores. If you are at the British Open this week, you can also view the leaderboard scores on the tv screens in the white marquee in the trade village!
Our thanks to our fantastic sponsors: Browning, Eley, SWATCOM, Le Chameau, Schoffel, and Teague Precision Chokes, along with the support of Laporte.
Also, special thanks to John Bidwell and George Digweed MBE for their generous trophy donations to the Colts and Juniors respectively - those with the top combined scores in their category from the English Open ESP and British Open ESP 2024.
The top five from each class (AAA - C) and top three from the following categories of Senior, Super Veterans, Veterans, Ladies, Juniors & Colts per day will be invited back for the 75 target final on Saturday. With the Disabled Category, it is the top standing score and top sitting score plus the next best score regardless of standing or sitting per day to qualify.
The following table shows all who have qualified each day, and are invited back to shoot on Saturday for the 75 Sporting Final:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Times | |
| Squad 1 | Lucas Beardmore | Kian Galley | Connor Davies | Oliver Clayton | Benjamin Rivers | Fern Lancaster | 09:00 |
| Squad 2 | Harry Briggs-Price | Brae Taylor | Aaron Christie | Colt | Colt | Colt | 09:09 |
| Squad 3 | Joshua Poyser | Anthony Clark | William Page | Taylor Alderton | Tristan Hockey | Ben Cumming | 09:18 |
| Squad 4 | Connor Hodson | Matthew Armett | Kallum Burrell | Junior | Junior | Junior | 09:27 |
| Squad 5 | David Gooding | Phil Rowbottom | Alan Bullock | Paul Foster | Paul Lovick | Andy Moon | 09:36 |
| Squad 6 | Steve Whitelock | Peter Humphreys | Nick Portlock | Vets | Vets | Vets | 09:45 |
| Squad 7 | Chelsea King | Sharon Niven | Ceyla Ismet | Lily-May Horn | Catherine Smalley | Charlotte Kerwood | 09:54 |
| Squad 8 | Rebecca Mckenzie | Jennie Cartwright | Amy Easeman | Ladies | Ladies | Ladies | 10:03 |
| Squad 9 | Steven Whitwell | Keith Hodgkinson | Les Sperling | Stephen Williams | Peter Jarvis | Patrick Dickman | 10:12 |
| Squad 10 | Tony Leonard | Richard Watkins | Alexander Gair | Super Vets | Super Vets | Super Vets | 10:21 |
| Squad 11 | Stuart Donaldson | Harry Seal | Jamie Brightman | James Bradley-Day | Jake Moore | Chris Childerhouse | 10:30 |
| Squad 12 | Joshua Bennion | Thomas Weston | Paul Wilkinson | Senior | Senior | Senior | 10:39 |
| Squad 13 | Ian Lobb | John Harrison | Lee Clements | Damien King | Disabled | 10:48 | |
| Squad 14 | Ghost | Ghost | Ghost | Ghost | Ghost | Ghost | 10:57 |
| Squad 15 | Disabled | Disabled | Disabled | Disabled | Disabled | Disabled | 11:06 |
| Squad 16 | Paul Briggs | Derek Ward | Luke Daniels | Shaun Aitken | Alison Sprowell | Daniel Parker | 11:15 |
| Squad 17 | Louis Richmond | William Uppington | Eric Hillary | William Rand | Jimmy Leese | Thomas Lund | 11:24 |
| Squad 18 | Callum Jones | Nigel Boyd | John Shipley | C Class | C Class | C Class | 11:33 |
| Squad 19 | C Class | C Class | David Wincott | Liam Hayton | Stewart Mackay | Jonathan Hull | 11:42 |
| Squad 20 | Peter Davies | David Platts | Stewart Chester | Adam Bavistock | Philip Oaten | Mark Noble | 11:51 |
| Squad 21 | Joseph Watson | Guy Watson | Colin Noble | Thomas Croucher | Conor Scullion | B Class | 12:00 |
| Squad 22 | B Class | B Class | B Class | B Class | Billy Cook | Alisdair Lightbody | 12:09 |
| Squad 23 | Ed Robinson | David Mennie | Lesley Rushworth | John Rollinson | John Garside | Harry Jude | 12:18 |
| Squad 24 | Lucy Earl | Stewart Owen | Chris Price | Sharad Singhal | Robert Bell | Hannah Gibson | 12:27 |
| Squad 25 | Joshua Talbot | A Class | A Class | A Class | A Class | A Class | 12:36 |
| Squad 26 | Stephen Amies | Doug Thompson | Sam Winterburn | Ashley Shuckford | Matt Bodfish | Martin Doughty | 12:45 |
| Squad 27 | Glen Hunt | Thomas Heath | Andy Jude | Stewart Cumming | Robert Gray | Oliver Gooderham | 12:54 |
| Squad 28 | Mark Fisher | Henry Lungley | Colin Will | AA Class | AA Class | AA Class | 13:03 |
| Squad 29 | AA Class | AA Class | Ricky Draper | Brett Winstanley | Sam Usher | George Digweed | 13:12 |
| Squad 30 | Martin Myers | Lee Jackson | Mark Marshall | Phil Gray | John Lee | James Attwood | 13:21 |
| Squad 31 | Tom Young | Nick Hendrick | Kevin Jobling | Mark Winser | Billy Greenwood | 13:30 | |
| Squad 32 | AAA Class | AAA Class | AAA Class | AAA Class | AAA Class | 13:39 |