Great Britain will send a strong delegation to the 2022 World Championships (Shotgun) in Osijek, Croatia, where a total of sixteen qualification places are up for grabs at Paris 2024. The Pampas Olympic Shooting Range will be the stage where four places each are decided in the Men’s and Women’s Trap and Skeet.
Athletes taking part that have already qualified a place cannot qualify another one for their team. Furthermore, only one athlete can qualify a place at this championship per event per NOC.
Starting with the Men’s Skeet event, and our team is three-strong, with Arran Eccleston, Ben Llewellin, and Jack Fairclough shooting for Britain. Eccleston, 21, has some decent results at junior level and also won a bronze medal at an ISSF Grand Prix event this year in Granada. Llewellin is our main hope, with a bronze medal at the European Championships earlier this year in Larnaca showing he is able to compete at the top level. Finally, Jack Fairclough has not placed in the Top 50 in the World Cup events he entered this year. With Lucy Charlotte Hall having already qualified a place in the women’s event, we will be guaranteed a place in the mixed team should we get a place here.
In the Men’s Trap, Matthew Coward-Holley, Nathan Hales, and Aaron Heading shoot for Blighty. Coward-Holley is the big name, having won bronze at the Tokyo Olympics and being defending World Champion, while Hales won bronze in Larnaca. Heading is no mug either, having won silver in the European Championships.
On the women’s side, we’ll start with the skeet, and with Emily Hibbs joining Hill and Alexandra Skeggs; Hill is ineligible to get another quota having already qualified. Hibbs came 29th in the 2019 World Championships while Skeggs won a silver at an ISSF Grand Prix tournament earlier this year.
Finally in the trap, Hall is joined by Kirsty Hegarty and Georgina Roberts. With Hall having already qualified, she is ineligible to gain a place, while Hegarty won bronze at the 2018 European Championships; Roberts is yet to break through to the world’s elite.
The shotgun is the best shooting discipline for GB historically and currently, and we’ll be hoping to add to Hall and Hill’s qualifications, especially on the men’s side to try and add spots in the mixed team event. The Trap events take place from 26-28 September, while the Skeet ones are from 7-9 October. Streaming is available of the finals on the ISSF website.
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