British Open Sporting & Sportrap 2023 (Day 2)
Day 2 of the CPSA British Open English Sporting and Sportrap had a slightly chillier start with a few spots of rain mid afternoon. Although the wind picked up pace a little in the afternoon, the shooters came off the course happy and there has been a great atmosphere here at Garlands SG today.
The prize draw started the morning, with a live random number generator picking Andrew Morris as the lucky winner of a fantastic set of Teague chokes generously supplied by Teague Precision Chokes, John Smith 250 Eley cartridges and James Attwood a Browning goody bag, congratulations gentlemen!
Top score on Day 2 on the Sporting was James Attwood with a whopping 116x120. Coming in second Peter Goldsmith, shooting a solid 112x120. Sam Usher, last year's British Open Champion, put in 109x120 - placing him in the top five qualifiers of the day. Will he be able to defend his title in the Final on Sunday ? Young Colt John Porter also shot a very impressive 109x120, while Amy Easeman maintains the highest Sporting Ladies score from yesterday with a 96x120.
Charlotte Kerwood placed the highest for Ladies Sportrap, with 80x100. Philip Bailey and Nigel Hart put in top scores for the day, each with an impressive 93x100. Five shooters placed second with 92s, making for some great shooting on the Sportrap today.
To view the live scores during the competition cpsa.co.uk/boespscores and cpsa.co.uk/bostrscores. If you are going to the British Open this week, you can also view the leaderboard scores on the tv screens within 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 Promatic.
Also, special thanks to John Bidwell and George Digweed MBE for their generous sponsorship of the Colts and Juniors respectively with the top combined scores in their category from the English Open ESP and British Open ESP 2023.
The top five from each class (AAA - C) and top three from the following categories of Senior, Ladies, Veterans, Super Veterans, Juniors & Colts per day will be invited back for the 75 target final on Sunday. 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.
PLEASE NOTE: Given that the competition spans a classification run on 1st September and some competitors may be affected, the following rule will apply:
Where a competition spans a classification implementation date the member will be given the higher of the classifications based on the first day and last day of the competition.
What this mean is that if you qualify as an A class shooter but when the classifications take place you go up to AA – then for the finals day, you will shoot as a AA class. The same would apply if you went from A to a B – you would shoot in A class on the finals day as this is the highest class during the competition. For the purpose of qualifying, it will be the class on day of shooting.
The following table shows all who have qualified each day, and are therefore invited back to shoot on Sunday for the 75 Sporting Final.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Times | |
Squad 1 | Angus Dawson | Lain Blamey | Oliver Clayton | Colt | Colt | Colt | 09:00 |
Squad 2 | Colt | Colt | Colt | Colt | Colt | Colt | 09:09 |
Squad 3 | Ron Chipman | Lucy Earl | Ed Morris | Rhys Powell | Teddy Taylor | Ben Cumming | 09:18 |
Squad 4 | Junior | Junior | Junior | Junior | Junior | Junior | 09:27 |
Squad 5 | Neil Faulkner | George Digweed | Paul Lovick | Paul Foster | Phil Smith | Mickey Rouse | 09:36 |
Squad 6 | Vets | Vets | Vets | Vets | Vets | Vets | 09:45 |
Squad 7 | Janine White | Catherine Smalley | Amy Easeman | Charlotte Allen | Emma Stacey | Katie Durrant | 09:54 |
Squad 8 | Ladies | Ladies | Ladies | Ladies | Ladies | Ladies | 10:03 |
Squad 9 | Mike Harding | Dave Carrie | Graham Stirzaker | Robert Gray | Stephen Williams | Arnie Palmer | 10:12 |
Squad 10 | Super Vets | Super Vets | Super Vets | Super Vets | Super Vets | Super Vets | 10:21 |
Squad 11 | Karl Hagan | Jack Lovick | Nathan Skinner | Will Fenner | Samuel Usher | Jason Allaway | 10:30 |
Squad 12 | Senior | Senior | Senior | Senior | Senior | Senior | 10:39 |
Squad 13 | Damien King | Paul Bailey | Lee Clements | Nigel Smith | Jason Thorne | 10:48 | |
Squad 14 | Ghost | Ghost | Ghost | Ghost | Ghost | Ghost | 10:57 |
Squad 15 | Disabled | Disabled | Disabled | Disabled | Disabled | Disabled | 11:06 |
Squad 16 | Ron Braithwaite | Daniel Thorley | Sam Vella | Jon Henderson | John Rogers | Edward Medforth | 11:15 |
Squad 17 | Robert Silvain | Derek McNicholl | Lucy Christie | Jacopo Adamati | C Class | C Class | 11:24 |
Squad 18 | C Class | C Class | C Class | C Class | C Class | C Class | 11:33 |
Squad 19 | C Class | C Class | Jonathan Hull | Nigel Moffatt | James Evans | Simon Reinhold | 11:42 |
Squad 20 | Brae Taylor | Conor McKendrick | Lewis Sones | Leslie Meynell | Josh Lee | Maximus Allen | 11:51 |
Squad 21 | B Class | B Class | B Class | B Class | B Class | B Class | 12:00 |
Squad 22 | B Class | B Class | B Class | B Class | Philip Rust | Charlie Faulds | 12:09 |
Squad 23 | Jordan Sayer | Adam Fearn | Harry Jude | John Hudson | Dominic Green | Michael Nairn | 12:18 |
Squad 24 | Max Small | Joseph De Mulder | A Class | A Class | A Class | A Class | 12:27 |
Squad 25 | A Class | A Class | A Class | A Class | A Class | A Class | 12:36 |
Squad 26 | Paul Simpson | Sean Ponting | John Newman | Jaymie Sole | Anthony Dean | Glen Halls | 12:45 |
Squad 27 | Nigel Hart | Kevin Jobling | Jonathan Kendall | John Porter | AA Class | AA Class | 12:54 |
Squad 28 | AA Class | AA Class | AA Class | AA Class | AA Class | AA Class | 13:03 |
Squad 29 | AA Class | AA Class | Richard Bunning | Toby Reed | Phil Gray | Sam Green | 13:12 |
Squad 30 | Tom Young | William Page | Brett Hand | Philip Thorrold | Peter Goldsmith | James Attwood | 13:21 |
Squad 31 | AAA Class | AAA Class | AAA Class | AAA Class | AAA Class | AAA Class | 13:30 |
Squad 32 | AAA Class | AAA Class | AAA Class | AAA Class | 13:39 | ||