Welcome to the Great Britain Palma Rifle Team website. The team have now returned safely to the UK after a thoroughly enjoyable and successful tour that culminated in winning The Palma Match. Thank you for all of your support while the team was away.
The tour brochure is available for download in PDF format here:
Captain: | John Webster | England | |||
Vice-Captain: | Martin Townsend | Ireland | |||
Adjutant: | James Watson | England | |||
Squad: | David Armstrong | England | |||
Nigel Ball GC, SM, SC | England | Jane Messer GC, SC | England | ||
Nick Brasier GC | England | Gareth Morris | Wales | ||
David Calvert GM, SC | Ireland | Parag Patel GC2, SC | England | ||
Matthew Charlton | Scotland | Toby Raincock | England | ||
Jon Cload | England | Kelvin Ramsey | England | ||
Matthew Ensor | England | Ant Ringer GM3, SM2, SC | England | ||
Richard Jeens | Wales | Tom Rylands SC | England | ||
Jeremy Langley | England | Paul Sykes | England | ||
James Lewis GM | England | Nick Tremlett GM | England | ||
David Luckman GC2, SM, SC3 | England | Jon Underwood GM, GC2, SM2 | England | ||
Ross McQuillan | Ireland | Chris Watson | Wales | ||
Reserve: | Edward Jeens | Wales | |||
Team Physio: | Erica McMullan |
"Illegitimis non carborundum"
Said of winds our young lawyer from London
Who so steadily shot
That he won the Worlds pot
As he saw others with magpies undone.
Today was the last day of the World Individual Championships. After 3 days and 2 and a third daily aggregates, the American Soldier of the Year, Sherri Gallagher, led the field. Following in the top ten were Nick Tremlett, David Luckman and Jane Messer with many more of the team only a handful of points behind. But, if the previous couple of days had been anything to go by, pretty much all of this could change when presented with the Belmont bluster.