What a great weekend of ISSF Shooting was had at our club on the weekend!!!
After a successful 3 Day DTL shoot the weekend before it was a quick turn around to have the layouts all set back for ISSF Trap with all the DTL houses and machines removed and Layout 3 in front of the club house to have the final repairs done to have it ready for competition. Paul Schroeter working overtime to get this job done early Friday morning! Thanks Paul!
3 squads of Skeet and 14 squads of Trap contested the events with Skeet being held over the Friday-Saturday 1st to 2nd March and Trap held on the Saturday and Sunday 2nd to 3rd March. Thanks must go to Shooting Australia and all the officials and volunteers for making the event run. This event being the final domestic nomination event for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Weather started out Friday morning in perfect conditions for the first round and some great scores were coming in. That’s as far as the perfect weather went with overcast skies and tricky breezes picking up for the rest of the days! The changing light proving very tricky.
Skeet Results were as follows:
Yarra Valley Grand Prix ISSF Skeet
MENS 1: J Bell 49/60;
MENS 2: P Adams 48/60;
MENS 3: K Ferguson 39/50;
LAD 1: A Jones 48/60;
LAD 2: C Tipple 46/60;
LAD 3: L Coles 34/50;
AA: C Tipple 117/125;
A: P Wilson 110/125;
B: H Munro 95/125;
C: S Caldwell 72/125
Over on the Trap field it was much the same story. Dark overcast and breezy conditions for Saturday with some sun coming through later in the day and changing light. The breeze picked up Sunday afternoon and by the time the final was held it was quite gusty! Some great shooting though was still witnessed.
Winners of the Trap events were as follows:
Yarra Valley Grand Prix ISSF Trap
MENS 1: J Willett 45/50;
MENS 2: J Dunn 43/50;
MENS 3: C Vella 34/40;
LAD 1: P Smith 41/50;
LAD 2: C Skinner 40/50;
LAD 3: L Scanlan 31/40;
PARA 1: M Di Paolo 82/125;
PARA 2: S Noto 68/125;
AA: J Willett 120/125, M Iles 119/125;
A: R Jones 111/125, J Brandt 108/125;
B: M Coleman 104/125, M Psaras 103/125;
C: M Vella 101/125, R Hughes-Gage 92/125
All winners received a MGC Yarra Valley Grand Prix Drink bottle and some cash prizes as well to recognise their efforts which was greatly appreciated by all!!! Thanks must go to Dave & Brooke de Pedro for organising the drink bottles which looked fantastic!!!
Congratulations must go to the 3 Men and Women of each discipline who get nominated to continue to the next 2 legs at World Cups to continue on the road to Paris!! Good luck all!!!
Thank you to the Melbourne Committee and Members who helped out during the event it was greatly appreciated.
After a busy start to the year we can now settle down for some regular programming. One of the toughest things about being a large multi discipline club that regularly holds large events for all discipline’s is at times it is necessary to close other layouts while other events take place. We thank our members and guests for their understanding if their chosen discipline is ever unavailable at certain times.
We look forward to again hosting the Yarra Valley Grand Prix in 2025.
*photos courtesy of Shooting Australia