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Day 18 – WLRC Day 3
Featured Team Members
Jeremy Langley
As Captain for the Palma, Jeremy has been working with a large squad for the last three years which culminated in March 2023 with an in-country tour and final selection. This ‘pre-Palma’ tour was a great way for the team to experience the challenges of shooting in South Africa and Jeremy is greatly looking forward to renewing old friendships forged by many years of international competition, whilst hopefully redressing the 1999 Palma Match result!
Jeremy (a third-generation shooter from Devon) is a seasoned international shot and coach having toured for Great Britain on 19 previous occasions (including six tours to South Africa – spanning three decades). In 2023, he captained the GB team to a single-point win in the Protea Match.
In his spare time when not shooting or coaching, he and his wife Judy can be found chasing after their two sons, Benjamin & Harry.
Rick Shouler
GM
Rick, an Oakham School veteran, shoots for Nottinghamshire county. This will be his fifth GB tour to Bloemfontein and he absolutely loves competing against talented friends in South Africa. This will be Rick’s eighth GB overseas tour and second World Championships.
Rick has shot in four of the Big 5 team matches (with a future Australia Match firmly in his sights!), was part of the winning GB teams in the 2008 and 2023 Protea matches and the England team in the 2019 America Match. Individually, in the UK, he won the St George’s competition in 2018 and, perhaps most notably, the H.M. Queen’s Prize in 2021. Rick has also enjoyed some individual success in Bloemfontein, winning the Free State Open and a number of other competitions.
Rick lives with his partner Sarah and four children, Sam, Alex, Lily and Harrison. He works as a Director at KPMG in Canary Wharf.
Under 25s
George Bramwell
George started shooting at the age of 14 as a pupil of Shrewsbury School, under the expert coaching of Tom Rylands. He began shooting smallbore before making the transition to fullbore, shooting the Ashburton four times, and is a proud member of the Lancashire county team. His favourite moment during his shooting career was winning the Imperial 150 team match.
Living in the Lake District, George does a fair bit of climbing, cycling and generally enjoys being outside. He is currently studying Sports and Exercise Science at Oxford Brookes University. He also competes in other variations of shooting sports most notably competing in Winter Biathlon which incorporates cross-country skiing and shooting in both prone and standing positions.
George is very much looking forward to going to the World Championships in South Africa.
Under 21s
Sarah Rorison
Sarah began shooting at Sedbergh School as a young cadet and has loved it ever since her first Bisley trip. She became Captain of the shooting team in her last year at school, and has been to the Channel Islands three times as a shooter and coach in cadet GB teams. She trained with the English Lions last year and is a proud member of the Lancashire county team. This will be her second time shooting in South Africa after joining the GB teams there in March 2023. She is delighted to be selected to represent the GB U21s at the World Championships and is looking forward to improving her skills and helping build a strong team on tour.
Sarah is in her second year studying Biology at the University of Sheffield. In her free time she enjoys art, spending time with friends and learning about wildlife.
Veterans
David Calvert
GM3 SB3 SC2 SM
Bloemfontein is arguably David’s second ‘shooting home’, having competed in all 25 SA Open Championships held there. His first shooting visit to South Africa was to Kimberley in 1996, when his RAF Club team won the Protea Match and he won his first of eight SA Open Championships.
David has represented GB on more than 50 occasions and has toured with GB, Ireland and RAF Club teams to 35 shooting venues in 20 countries across six continents. Individual Target Rifle achievements include four Gold Medals for Northern Ireland over 11 consecutive Commonwealth Games, and three Gold Medals in the H.M. Queen’s Prize. David has also represented GB in Match Rifle, Smallbore Rifle and Service Rifle.
Away from shooting, his interests and activities include family, golf, occasional skiing and scuba diving, and flying as a part-time instructor pilot in the RAF Reserve.
John Halahan
John’s first experience with shooting was at the age of 11, pest control shooting at monkeys in Malaysia which were destroying the young rubber trees. It is extremely doubtful that he actually hit anything, but he definitely succeeded in scaring them off! He commenced proper target shooting at Framlingham College in Suffolk, continuing in the Army. Following a break, he returned to target shooting in the mid-1990’s.
His first tour was with the 2008 NRA team to the Channel Islands before touring as a reserve with the 2014 GB team to USA and Canada and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. He has now represented Ireland in both National and Mackinnon matches.
Now retired, the theory is that he should find more time to shoot. Married to Ann, he has two grown up daughters and seems to be quite heavily involved with babysitting grandchildren.
Tour Information
Captain’s Foreword
