{"id":3995,"date":"2024-07-30T10:27:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T00:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2024-08-06T09:57:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T23:57:02","slug":"competition-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/competition-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Competition Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Day 4 of the Shooting Competition coming up today from the National Shooting Centre in Chateauroux, France\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WOMEN’S TRAP (SHOTGUN) QUALIFICATION DAY 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUSTRALIAN ATHLETES COMPETING:
CATHERINE SKINNER<\/a>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b AND PENNY SMITH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Competition commences at 9:00am Local (CEST) \/ 5:00PM AEST!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competitors will shoot 75 targets across three rounds of 25. The remaining 50 targets (for a total out of 125) will be shot on the second day of qualification on Wednesday. The Women\u2019s Trap Final will be held following qualification, for the top 6 qualifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE THE WOMEN’S START LIST AND FOLLOW RESULTS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MEN’S TRAP (SHOTGUN) QUALIFICATION DAY 2 + FINAL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUSTRALIAN ATHLETES COMPETING:
MITCHELL ILES<\/a> AND JAMES WILLETT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Competition commences at 9:30am Local (CEST) \/ 5:30PM AEST!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competitors will shoot the remaining 50 targets across two rounds of 25. The Final will be held following today\u2019s qualification, for the top 6 qualifiers, from 3:30pm Local (CEST) \/ 11:30PM, AEST. Channel 9 has scheduled broadcast for the Men\u2019s Trap final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE THE MEN’S START LIST AND FOLLOW RESULTS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The searing heat was no distraction for James Willett and Mitchell Iles who competed in the first day of the Men\u2019s Trap event at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aussie Trap Hot Shots Start Strong<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Against the World\u2019s best, Willett opened competition with the first perfect round of 25 broken targets out of 25. He continued with great form only missing his 31st<\/sup> target to score a total of 74 out of 75 targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharing the top of the leaderboard with Sweden\u2019s Rickard Levin-Andersson, Willett reflects, \u201cI am happy with today\u2019s performance. I realise there is still a long way to go and another 50 targets to shoot tomorrow. My goal is to repeat what I did today and hopefully I am well positioned to move into the final.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In sweltering conditions with temperatures climbing to the mid 30\u2019s, Willett said, \u201cIt was pretty warm out there today but actually perfect shooting conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iles finished day one with a score of 72 out of 75, closing out the day with a perfect 25 out of 25. In front of the huge crowd of spectators, Iles said, \u201cIt was extremely hot out on the range today. I was happy with how I shot and I have my sights set on repeating this tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top 6 Men\u2019s Trap competitors progress through to the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 4 of the Shooting Competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games! Catherine Skinner and Penny Smith start the Women\u2019s Trap (Shotgun) competition today, while James Willett and Mitch Iles continue their qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3996,"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":"1312,1133,1344,3615,3705,3698","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-releases","category-olympic-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","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=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}