Australia\u2019s Trap Team Women of Catherine Skinner, Laetisha Scanlan, and the returning Penny Smith closed out their ISSF World Championships campaign with a bronze medal on Friday.<\/p>\n
The trio scored 202\/225 in qualification placing 4th<\/sup>, qualifying for the bronze medal match where they would face the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/p>\n In the final, Australia\u2019s Trap Team women reached 6 points to the People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s 4 to claim the bronze medal for Australia.<\/p>\n Earlier in the week, Penny Smith had withdrawn from the individual Trap Women qualification due to a medical issue and did her best to recover in time for the Team event, with Smith adding \u201cIt\u2019s been a bit of a rough week for me but I was pretty determined to get out here with Teash and Catherine today and give it our best shot and that we did so I\u2019m really proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n Talking about qualification, Skinner added \u201cI think we started off pretty strong but then it got a bit challenging there, but we pulled it together and we just got enough targets.\u201d<\/p>\n On the final, Scanlan added \u201cI think everyone held their own and I guess we hit the targets when they needed to be hit, so I\u2019m really happy that we came away with the bronze medal today.\u201d<\/p>\n The World Championships campaign is now over for the Australian Trap Team, and the athletes are looking forward to returning to Australia. Skinner mentioned missing her own bed, with Smith wanting \u201ca bit of a break and return to normality\u201d, and Scanlan saying \u201cI think just having no bugs at home.\u201d<\/p>\n Australia\u2019s involvement in the ISSF World Championships has not come to an end yet, with Australian Olympic Skeet Shooter Aislin Jones on her way to Osijek, Croatia to compete in the Women\u2019s Skeet event that begins on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australia\u2019s Trap Team Women of Catherine Skinner, Laetisha Scanlan, and the returning Penny Smith closed out their ISSF World Championships campaign with a bronze medal on Friday. The trio scored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}