{"id":4155,"date":"2024-09-03T11:10:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T01:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2024-09-03T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T01:10:59","slug":"paris-2024-paralympic-games-day-5-para-shooting-sport-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/paris-2024-paralympic-games-day-5-para-shooting-sport-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: Day 5 &#8211; Para Shooting Sport Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is day 5 of competition for Para Shooting Sport as part of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games! And it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paralympic.org.au\/athlete\/natalie-smith\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Natalie Smith<\/a> in action in her second and final event; R8 Women&#8217;s 50m Rifle 3 Positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>QUALIFICATION<\/strong>&nbsp;9:30am local\/5:30pm AEST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FINAL <\/strong>4pm local\/12am AEST 4 September (top 8 qualifiers)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"319\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Day-3-Paralympics-01.09.2024-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4151\" style=\"width:224px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Day-3-Paralympics-01.09.2024-2.jpg 319w, https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Day-3-Paralympics-01.09.2024-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>How can you follow Natalie&#8217;s event?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see the competition start list and follow Natalie&#8217;s scores live via the Paris 2024 website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/paris-2024-paralympics\/results\/shooting-para-sport\/r8---women-s-50m-rifle-3-positions-sh1\/qual000100--\" rel=\"noopener\">R8 WOMEN&#8217;S 50M RIFLE 3 POSITION<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Anton Zappelli&#8217;s R3 Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone Event\u00a0Day 3 &#8211; 1 September<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paralympic.org.au\/athlete\/anton-zappelli\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Anton Zappelli<\/a> competed in the R3 Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone event on Sunday 1 September. Anton shot a qualification score of 631.9, placing 15th and bettering his score in Tokyo 2020 by 0.3 points. Read the competition recap and see the competition scores via the buttons below.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"319\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Day-3-Paralympics-01.09.2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4150\" style=\"width:184px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Day-3-Paralympics-01.09.2024.jpg 319w, https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Day-3-Paralympics-01.09.2024-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paralympic.org.au\/2024\/09\/solid-shoot-for-zappelli-at-chateauroux\/\" rel=\"noopener\">ANTON ZAPPELLI R3 EVENT RECAP (PARALYMPICS AUSTRALIA)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/paris-2024-paralympics\/results\/shooting-para-sport\/r3---mixed-10m-air-rifle-prone-sh1\/qual000100--\" rel=\"noopener\">R3 MIXED 10M AIR RIFLE PRONE SCORES<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is the R8 Women&#8217;s 50m Rifle 3 Positions event?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>R8 is a quick reference of the event with R representing Rifle. We could just say &#8220;today Natalie is competing in the R8 event&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event is one of the three women&#8217;s only events including in this years Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>50m Rifle is the distance between the athlete and the target.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 positions means that the competitors will shoot a combination of positions that includes kneeling, prone and standing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is the competition format of the R8 Women&#8217;s 50m Rifle 3 Positions event?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event is considered the marathon event out of the rifle events due to the time it takes to compete qualifification; 2 hours and 45 minutes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A smallbore .22 calibre (5.6mm) rifle is used to fire 120 shots down the 50 metre range, aiming for the bullseye! The target measures&nbsp;15.5cms in diametre. The \u201c10\u201d ring is 1cm (10 mm) in diameter with an inner \u201cX\u201d ring (bullseye) a mere 5mm in diametre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal of shooting this event is to place a series of shots inside the centre ring (\u2018bullseye\u2019) of the target. The target is comprised of&nbsp;10 concentric scoring rings&nbsp;with a score grade of 1 to 10. Natalie will fire 40 shots in the kneeling position, 40 shots in the prone position and 40 shots in the standing position. The shots will be fired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is day 5 of competition for Para Shooting Sport as part of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games! And it is Natalie Smith in action in her second and final event; R8 Women&#8217;s 50m Rifle 3 Positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4151,"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":"1148,3615,3597,3961,3602,1261","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paralympic-news","category-media-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","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=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4156,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions\/4156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}