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British Open Sporting & Sportrap 2021 (Day 1)
The first day of the CPSA British Open English Sporting and Sportrap started with a light drizzle but this soon cleared away to leave dry and reasonably sunny conditions with a mild wind, a perfect start to a CPSA Championship week.
The prize draw started the morning, with a live random number generator picking Peter Fitkin as the lucky winner of a fantastic set of Pilla shooting glasses generously provided by Tom Starkey from Starkey Outdoor. Peter was naturally delighted and set off to shoot the course with his new lenses on.
Feedback on the sporting was that it was a very enjoyable shoot and the ground looked superb, thanks to all of the hard work by the E J Churchill team over the last month. Certainly World ESP champion Mark Winser thought so, saying that it was a lovely course and his score of 113ex120 was leading the way, just one ahead of Jamie Brightman and John Wells on 112 each.
On the British Open Sportrap, David Woolley is currently leading the pack on 98ex100, three ahead of Rob Claybrook on 95.
Well done to all who shot today.
To view the live scores during the competition cpsa.co.uk/boespscores and cpsa.co.uk/bostrscores
The event is made possible by the sponsors: Rizzini (distributed in the UK by ASI), Gamebore, Musto, SWATCOM, Fine Shooting Accessories, and Teague Precision Chokes, along with the support of Promatic.
For the English Sporting, each day the top five shooters from each class (AAA, AA, A, B, and C) and the top three from each category (Ladies, Seniors, Veterans, Juniors, Colts, and Disabled Standing and Disabled Sitting) will be invited to shoot the 75-target Final on Sunday. The top six scores from the Final will be invited to the 25-target Super Final on Sunday afternoon.
The following table shows all who have qualified each day, and are invited back to shoot on Sunday for the 75 Sporting Final
Each category will have 2 squads, and each class will make up 3.5 squads. The top six scores from the Final will be invited to the 25-target Super Final on Sunday afternoon.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Times | |
| Squad 1 | Emily Chumbley | Joe Hollick | Lily May Horn | 09:00 | |||
| Squad 2 | 09:09 | ||||||
| Squad 3 | Thomas Boles | Rhys Harrison | Joel Ogden | 09:18 | |||
| Squad 4 | 09:27 | ||||||
| Squad 5 | Liz Salmon | Rebecca Adlam | Amy Easeman | 09:36 | |||
| Squad 6 | 09:45 | ||||||
| Squad 7 | Anthony Dean | Glenn Hunt | Martin Doughty | 09:54 | |||
| Squad 8 | 10:03 | ||||||
| Squad 9 | Josh Bridges | Billy Baughan | Mark Stevenson | 10:12 | |||
| Squad 10 | 10:21 | ||||||
| Squad 11 | John Harrison | Stuart Dawson | Lee Clements | 10:30 | |||
| Squad 12 | 10:39 | ||||||
| Squad 13 | 10:48 | ||||||
| Squad 14 | Ghost | Ghost | Ghost | Ghost | Ghost | Ghost | 10:57 |
| Squad 15 | Richard Noble | Michael Rollason | Neil Holloway | AR Johnston | Mark Byng | 11:06 | |
| Squad 16 | 11:15 | ||||||
| Squad 17 | 11:24 | ||||||
| Squad 18 | Megan Gamble | Tim Shayle | Roger Ayton | Stewart Chester | 11:33 | ||
| Squad 19 | Tim Sayer | 11:42 | |||||
| Squad 20 | 11:51 | ||||||
| Squad 21 | Stephen Amies | Trevor Hawkins | Jordan Sayer | 12:00 | |||
| Squad 22 | Harry Dickens | Murray Thompson | 12:09 | ||||
| Squad 23 | 12:18 | ||||||
| Squad 24 | John Newman | Marc Watson | 12:27 | ||||
| Squad 25 | Tom Young | John Wells | Jamie Brightman | 12:36 | |||
| Squad 26 | 12:45 | ||||||
| Squad 27 | 12:54 | ||||||
| Squad 28 | Gary Meikle | Rob Claybrook | Chris Biddlecombe | Timothy Simmons | Mark Winser | 13:03 | |
| Squad 29 | 13:12 | ||||||
| Squad 30 | 13:21 |