Sian Corish became British Three-Position Rifle Champion on Sunday at the NSRA British 50Metre Championships. Alun Evans took Bronze. Held at Tondu TSC with the support of Welsh Shooting, the match was well attended by participants from across the UK.
Alun and Sian qualified for the 8-person final in third and fifth respectively. Aidan Healy led qualification, but slipped to finish eighth in the final.
Sian also finished sixth in the Open Prone Rifle event.
Tondu shooters Sian Corish and Alun Evans dominated the Welsh 50Metre Rifle Championships this year. Sian became Welsh Prone Confined Champion and Open 3-Position Champion. Alan was Prone Open Champion and runner-up in the 3P. The event was well attended again this year, with a fourth Prone elimination detail added on Saturday, and Sunday’s 3-Position Rifle event fully subscribed. With Tondu hosting the British 50M championships later in June, many national shooters were keen to dial into the range and entrants came from across the UK, including from Northern Ireland and Jersey.
Saturday dawned with classic Tondu winds, leaving scores down across the board. Sian Corish had the highest result in an elimination detail with 615.5, followed by Louise Aiken and Chris Hunter with 613s. Many shooters were ten points off their average, although Chloe John-Driscoll managed a PB and new Welsh Junior Women’s Prone Record with her qualification score of 601.9.
The top 15 from the four eliminators progressed to the Open Final, another 60-shot match. Winds had calmed somewhat in the afternoon and scores climbed with more competitors breaking 610. Alun Evans made the best of it scoring 619.4, followed by Tim Jeffery on 615.5 and Chris Hunter on 615.3. Paige Fryer was Open Junior Champion, and Chris Brown was leading Veteran.
The top 15 Welsh competitors gathered for the Confined Final on Sunday morning with conditions bright, and the wind still tricky but more settled than Saturday. Sian Corish bagged her first medal and the DWF Phelps Trophy with a score of 612.6. Adam Gabrys was runner up with 607.3 and the battle for third was particularly tight with John Moore’s 606.6 just beating out Richard Hemingway’s 606.5 and Fred Brown’s 606.4.
The Three-Position Rifle was a Welsh lock-out. Sian Corish was gold medal position, with Alun Evans and Aidan Healy picking up Silver and Bronze. Scotland’s Neil Sinclair was fourth, a single point behind Aidan. Alun’s 573 was a British Shooting Para-Sport Minimum Consideration Score, helping him on his Paralympic ambitions.
The Association thanks Tondu TSC for the generous use of their range, and to all the volunteers who made the meeting a success.
Full results available at Megalink Results.
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
| Open Prone | Alun Evans – 619.4 Tondu TSC | Tim Jeffery – 615.5 Havant RC | Chris Hunter – 615.3 Down Hatherley |
| Confined Prone | Sian Corish – 612.6 Tondu TSC | Adam Gabrys – 607.3 Torfaen RC | John Moore – 606.6 Penarth RC |
| Open Three-Position | Sian Corish – 577-26x Tondu TSC | Alun Evans – 573-19x Tondu TSC | Aidan Healy – 566-17x Bookham RC |
| Junior Prone | Paige Fryer – 607.6 Jersey Outdoor | Libby Hart – 604.7 Jersey Outdoor | Louis Norman – 603.7 Budleigh Farm TSC |
| Veterans Prone | Chris Brown – 606.2 Leicester District | Fred Brown – 599.7 Tondu TSC | Terry Thomas – 594.3 Tondu TSC |
| Open Prone Pairs | Sian Corish David George | ||
| B/C Class Prone Pairs | Alan Ainge Steve Gurner |
Aidan Healy was leading Three-Position Rifle competitor at British Shooting’s trial shoots in Wigan this weekend, exceeding his Personal Best and National Record in the process.
Aidan, who set a British Junior Record of 571/600 at the British 50Metre Championships in August, went one better to score 572 on Sunday. He had already shot a 568 on Saturday to win the first day’s trials. Olivia Beech of Rugeley came second on 561, with Louis Norman third with 559.
Aidan’s score will not be a formal record however as the trials were shot on Wigan’s 50 metre indoor range, serving a comparative role for selection purposes – three-position rifle is formally an outdoor event and records must be shot outdoors.
When outdoor shooting resumes next year, Aidan will also have robust competition from the north – Scottish junior Neil Sinclair shot a 576 on Sunday. This was the highest single match score of the weekend, although his aggregate over both days was lower than Aidan’s. We can expect to see records change hands in 2026.
Congratulations to Aidan Healy who set a new British Junior Record in August.
Shooting in the Three-Position 50Metre Rifle event at the British Shooting Pathway Championships in August, Aidan broke his own PB and Welsh Junior Record of 565 (set at the Junior International) with a huge score of 571. This was significantly in excess of the existing British Junior Men’s record (563, set in May 2025 at the Gibraltar Open by Louis Norman). British Shooting have now ratified the new record (webarchive link).
Congratulations to Alun Evans who has won a Bronze medal at the World Shooting Para Sport Grand Prix in Serbia. Competing in the Men’s 50m 3P Rifle (R7) event, Alun scored 560/600 to find his way into third place with a steady and consistent shoot.
Para Sport “Three-Position” rifle is shot entirely from a seated position. The Prone portion allows the athlete to rest both elbows on a table in a seated version of the prone position. The kneeling segment requires their triggering arm to be unsupported, whilst the standing phase sees them hold the rifle freely in their seated position. The positions all resemble a seated version of the ISSF equivalents.
Aidan Healy and Brinley Rose both shot strongly at the GB Junior International, held in Surrey prior to the NSRA National Meeting.
In the Prone, Brinley put in strong and improving scores of 561 in the Grand Prix and 564 in the Championship match.
Aidan won the 50M Mixed 3×20 with an excellent score of 565, which we believe to be a Welsh Junior Men’s Record.
This weekend saw competitors sweat it out in 29degree temperatures at the Welsh 50M Championships, held at Tondu Target Shooting Club.
Saturday morning saw uncommonly calm conditions for Tondu, leaving the firing point hot and humid. Competitors contested one of three elimination details with the top qualifers of each squad progressing to the Open Final on Saturday afternoon, and the top 15 WSRA members progressing to the Confined Final on Sunday morning.
Paris Paralympic Games medallist Tim Jeffrey managed the highest qualifying score to win X-Class with 623.7. He was closely followed by Alan Bain on 622.4. Chris Hunter also cracked the 620 mark with 620.3. In the Pairs, Rob Morgan and Alan Ainge of Torfaen took the B/C Pairs, whilst the Open Pairs saw a tie-break – Chris Hunter and Simon Green lost the countback to Tim Jeffrey and Alun Evans. Aidan Healy was top Welsh Junior whilst Chris Brown was top Veteran.
A welcome breeze picked up for the Open Final, where Tim improved on the moning with a score of 624.1 to become the 2025 Welsh Open Champion. Matt Dixon took silver and Chris Hunter bronze.
Sunday morning dawned with welcome drizzle and a fresher breeze. Liam Webster made the best of it to become Welsh Confined Champion with 610.1. Defending champion Richard Hemingway placed second, with Martin Newman in third. Liam became the first recipient of the DWF Phelps Welsh Outdoor Championship Trophy. In previous years prizes have been awarded for the confined championship, but the Association has now acquired a trophy for annual competition, which has been named to honour double Commonwealth Games gold medallist David Phelps.
Sunday also saw the Open Three-Position match, by which time the wind was back to “Tondu Standard”. Olivia Beech of Rugeley RC and Wigan TSC made the best of the difficult conditions with 564/600, closely followed by Alun Evans on 562 and Louis Norman on 558. A special mention to Neil Sinclair who suffered a non-allowable malfunction with his sights (meaning no extra time was granted) but managed to complete the match, finishing his entire Standing phase in the last 10 minutes with a 90 and 91, which got him to fourth place.
Enormous thanks go to organisers Dave Phelps, Rob Warnes and Niall Evans who brought the targetry to the site, ran the range and kept the event running smoothly. Thanks also go to Tondu TSC for the generous use of their range.
Entries are now open for the 2025 Welsh 50Metre Championships, which will be held at Tondu Target Shooting Club on the 21st-22nd June.
For more information and entry forms, please see the event page.
The WSRA team won the Home Countries 3-Position Rifle Match at the NSRA British 50Metre Championships this weekend, pipping England by just three points – 1655 to 1652. Congratulations to team members Richie Bray, Alun Evans and Aidan Healy.
The team honours were matched with individual success – Alun won Silver and Richie took Bronze in the NSRA British Mixed 3P Championship.
Richard Hemingway retained his title at the Welsh 50M Championships this weekend at Tondu Target Shooting Club.
Saturday dawned overcast but calm for the Open. Richard Hemingway topped qualification and X-Class with a score of 618.9, followed by Chris Hunter (617.1) and Joshua Culshaw (616.4). The wind picked up after lunch and in the Open Championship final, scores tumbled and fortunes were turned. Chris Hunter held on to the top spot with 612.8, followed by Sian Corish (612.4) and Liam Webster (610.9).
Anna Maughan was top Open Junior and Aidan Healy was top Welsh Junior. Fred Brown took top Veteran.
Sunday morning dawned flat and drizzly as the Welsh finalists assembled for the Confined Championship. A deceptively gentle start gave way to some tricky wind changes in the last fifteen minutes. After an early lead Richard Hemingway was overtaken by Sian Corish, with the two trading places into the last string. After 60 shots however, the line up was a repeat of 2023 with Richard retaining his title with a score of 617.5. Sian Corish was runner-up on 615.0 and Liam Webster placed third on 614.1.
The Open 3×20 was well attended and closely fought. Sian Corish took the title on 579, with Alan Bain and Alun Evans having to be split on inner-tens having tied on 567.
Our immense thanks goes to Dave Phelps for organising; Rob Warnes for managing the electronics; the volunteers who helped put the range together and pack away on Sunday; and to Tondu TSC for the generous use of their range. We look forward to welcoming you to the 2025 Championship.
