Parag first started shooting at Epsom College and his prodigious talent was in early evidence as he won the Canadian Grand Aggregate as an Atheling in 1994. This is his 12th tour with the GB team and his 4th to South Africa. Accomplished in both team and individual shooting, Parag has shot in all ‘Big 5’ matches with over 50 appearances to date (including the last five Palma matches), and has won the Bisley Grand…
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Matt started shooting at Epsom College in 2001. What started off as just a bit of fun converting live rounds to empty cases (something Matt is particularly good at) quickly became a major part of his life. Matt was captain of his school winning the Ashburton in 2006, and has travelled across the world on various junior and senior tours, most recently gaining his first senior cap on the GB team to Camp Perry, Ohio…
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Jane is one of a select few to have both shot and coached the ‘Big Five’ matches in which British shooters compete (the National, MacKinnon, Kolapore, Australia and Palma matches). A keen advocate of team shooting, Jane has toured widely, including to Australia, Barbados, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Trinidad, the USA and Zimbabwe. Having captained the GB Palma team to record-breaking success in the US in 2015. Jane’s introduction to South Africa and the…
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David is looking forward to his 6th visit to Bloemfontein and to catching up with local friends. It has been 20 years since David’s first Australia match tour and he is relishing the opportunity to potentially compete in an 8th Australia match (in which he has achieved 200 on 3 occasions) Back home, David’s UK successes include winning three Grand Aggregates, two St George’s and two golds at the Glasgow Commonwealth games. In 2015 after…
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This will be Jumbo’s third GB tour to South Africa and his eleventh trip to Bloemfontein since his first in 1993. Shooting in the Southern Hemisphere is somehow different and the General de Wet range and its surroundings magical. Like most of us, if we keep shooting for long enough, individual shooting success surprises both the shooter, friends, and team captains to different degrees, so an individual gold medal at 900 yards at the 2011…
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Paul (Pablo) started shooting at Tonbridge School in 2005. Whilst he has since represented UKCRT, Athelings, GBu19, GB Under 25, Kent and Ireland, he is honoured to have achieved this first senior GB cap on such a strong team. He is fortunate enough to have toured South Africa three times already and is looking forward to heading back again for the shooting, food…and hopefully great weather this year! 2015 was Paul’s best season yet, finishing…
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Matthew started shooting in 1992 at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford. He was last in South Africa with England in 2009, where he claimed his first individual wins shortly after a certain Nick Tremlett watched him score another low-right 3 and proceeded to ‘fix’ him within the space of one shoot at the Nottingham Road range in Kwazulu-Natal. Matthew much prefers wind coaching in team matches, most recently touring to the USA in 2015 where…
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Richard has had the privilege of shooting with and against a number of teams and individuals in the UK and abroad and has been fortunate to have some success in winning HM Queen’s Prize in 2014 and taking individual victory in the World Individual Long Range Championships in 2011. However, team success remains Richard’s greatest pleasure in rifle shooting as he has progressed via Cambridge and the County of London to full international honours for…
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Tom started shooting with the Air Training Corps at the tender age of 13, initially very unsuccessful but with persistence and training he improved enough to gain a place on the 2006 Athelings team for his first overseas tour. Since 2006, Tom has toured a further seven times to countries such as Australia, South Africa (twice), USA (twice) and the Channel Islands (twice) where he has represented GB Under 19, GB Under 25, GB and…
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Glyn started shooting at Bisley in 1985, was an Atheling in 1989 and achieved his first touring GB Cap in 1990. Since then he has a number of achievements at Bisley, has 3 Palma Gold medals & 4 Commonwealth Games medals, including Gold in 2006 with Parag. His only other overseas team tour this century was with England to South Africa in 2013 and is looking forward to a return visit and experiencing the vast…
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