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Nick Tremlett
GM SB
Nick started shooting before most of this team were born, and first competed at international level in 1976. Dabbling in both Target Rifle and Match Rifle, Nick has won the H.M. Queen’s Prize and the Hopton, and a few other trophies along the way. He was Captain of the undefeated GB team to South Africa in 2017, a tour during which he also won the State President prize for the 2nd time.
2024 will be Nick’s eighth visit to Bloemfontein, and he was a member of the last GB Palma team to compete there, in 1999, along with six other members of the current team.
He has a fascination in long range ballistics and has played an instrumental role in the development of the GB team’s ammunition for this Palma tour; creating a load to overcome the particular ballistic challenges presented by a combination of Bloemfontein’s altitude and high daytime temperatures.
Theo Dodds
Theo started shooting with an air rifle in his back garden at the age of 4, continuing at Tonbridge School. He first toured overseas with the GB U21 team to the 2015 World Championships, then with the GB U25s to South Africa in 2017 and New Zealand in 2019. Theo’s first GB cap was awarded for the 2021 Kolapore Match and his first senior overseas tour was to South Africa in 2023. A keen smallbore shooter, he became the youngest in history to “do the double” by winning both the Earl Roberts and the X Class Aggregate in the 2019 Bisley Smallbore Meeting.
Now an Officer in the Royal Navy and a trainee Observer in the Fleet Air Arm, Theo is very grateful to receive support from his Service as he looks towards success in the 2024 Palma as one of only two serving members of the team.
Under 25s
Toby Little
Toby started shooting at Gresham’s School at the age of 14 after breaking his nose playing rugby. Under the watchful eye of Freddie Grounds he became Captain of the school team in his final year and was selected for the 2017 Athelings (with Harriet as his Captain) and in 2019 the GB U19 team to South Africa. Toby is also very proud to represent Wales, having shot every National Match since 2018, and Norfolk county, for whom he first represented while at school.
This will be his third trip to South Africa having also travelled with GB U25 in 2023 and his second World Championships, after going to New Zealand with the GB U21s. He is really looking forward to meeting international friends on the range once again, and competing at the highest level against the best in the world.
Under 21s
Oscar Farrell
Oscar began shooting at Wellington College at the age of 13, under the tuition of Nigel Ball. He toured Jersey as a cadet in 2018, returning in 2022 as a member of the undefeated NRA team. In 2019, he toured Canada with the Athelings and secured his first National cap for Wales, continuing to shoot in the National Match every year since. In 2021, Oscar was awarded his first Mackinnon cap for Wales.
Oscar is now a regular member of the Yorkshire county team. This is helping to fuel his commitment to continually develop his shooting skills and he looks forward to the challenge that South Africa will bring.
Oscar is also a Sound Engineer and Musician, and has taken a year out of studying for his degree in York to complete a prestigious placement with an award-winning record label, recording some of the finest orchestras and musicians across London and the UK.
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 Webster
John started shooting fullbore in the cadet force at Uppingham School in the early 1970’s, progressing to the Athelings (1974), NRA representative honours (1981 tour to Zimbabwe), England (Mackinnon 1984), and Great Britain (Canada 1987). He has since shot in all the Big 5 matches, as well as in the America Match, and has been on 12 overseas tours with GB or England teams, captaining three of them, most notably the 2011 GB team that won the Palma and Australia matches in Brisbane.
He has been actively involved in GB Veterans shooting since reaching the qualifying age, captaining them on their 2 previous tours, to South Africa (2018) and New Zealand (2019). This tour will be his sixth trip to South Africa with a target rifle, and he is very much looking forward to improving his Afrikaans beyond knowing the difference between a “lekker skiet” and a “kak skiet”.
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