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At the 2026 British Open Air Gun Championships, held at Bisley, over the weekend of 20th/22nd February 2026, Wales now has five British Champions for 2026:
NSRA British Championships
Men Junior Rifle – 3 of the 8 Finalists were Welsh.
Women Junior Pistol – 4 of the 8 Finalists were Welsh.
Aidan Healy – British Junior Men Rifle Champion.
Sasha Mikhailov – British Junior Men Pistol Champion.
Lydia Eastwood – British Junior Women Pistol Champion.
Seren Thorne – British Women Rifle Champion.
Sue Morris – Para Prone British Champion and SH2 British Championship Champion Disabled confined Champion.

Congratulations to all the Champions and to everyone who competed for Wales.

Congratulations to the Welsh athletes selected by British Shooting
British Shooting World Class Programme for 2026
LA (Los Angeles) Fastrack:- James Miller

British Shooting Olympic and Paralympic Potential Programme for 2026
Rifle:- Aidan Healy, Alun Evans, Seren Thorne
Pistol:- Sasha Mikhailov

RIAC, Luxembourg (11th - 13th December 2025) Day 1
James Miller, 2nd in Mens Pistol
Aidan Healy, 7th in Mens Junior Rifle
- New Welsh Record Score of 613.7x654 in Qualification

Day 2
James Miller, 2nd in Mens Pistol
Sasha Mikhailov, 3rd in Mens Junior Pistol
Aidan Healy, 8th in Mens Junior Rifle
- New Welsh Record Score of 615.0x654 in Qualification

Day 3
Sasha Mikhailov, 1st in Mens Junior Pistol
James Miller, 4th in Mens Pistol
Lucy Banner, 8th in Womens Junior Pistol

James Miller, Sasha Mikhailov, Lucy Banner, Aidan Healy and Annie Williams competed for Wales.
Chloe John-Driscoll and Oliver McCabe competed for British Shooting (BRSP).

The Association intends to commence a pathway for the development of pistol athletes from novice to elite. The pathway will meet for one day per month and will be open to only those shooters who are at any time current members of the Welsh Airgun Association.

Details of the NSRA Club Coach (Pistol) course that Robert Shawyer is running in March 2025 are available via this link:-
NSRA Club Coach (Pistol) course

Robert Shawyer has been appointed as a WAA Pistol Coach. Dates for coaching sessions are being worked on.
Contact Robert for more details (07495 139431).

Robert Shawyer is running a NSRA Club Coach course in February and March 2025 with four places still available.
Contact Robert for more details (07495 139431).

Donna Carpenter has volunteered as Lead Safeguarding Officer for the Association.

If you feel the need to contact Donna about a safeguarding issue, Donna can be emailed on
safeguarding@welsh-airgun.org.uk
A safeguarding web page is also available, link = Safeguarding which has links to various documents.

At the 2024 British Open Air Gun Championships, held at Bisley, over the weekend of 24th/25th February 2024, Wales now has three British Champions for 2024:
Aidan Healey (Mens Junior Rifle)
Seren Thorne (Womens Junior Rifle)
Lucy Banner (Womens Junior Pistol).

Wales also won through to take the Mens and Womens Junior Rifle Home Country Championships.

Lucy Thomas (Womens Junior Pistol) took 2nd place in the Olympic Final.

Megan Bamsey (Rifle Women) won through to 3rd place in the Olympic Final.

Douglas Floyd (Rifle Junior Men) took 3rd place in the Olympic Final.

Alun Evans took 3rd place in the WSPS SH1 Rifle Olympic Final.

At the December 2023 British Shooting Pistol Series competition held at Aldersley, James Miller equalled his Welsh Record Score of 582 x 600 and Lucy Banner came within 1 point of the current Womens Record Score (held by Coral Kennerley).

At the ISSF Junior World Cup, Spain, February 2024, Seren Thorne claimed Silver and 2nd place in Womens Air Rifle, setting a new British Junior Women's 10m Air Rifle Final record score.
Seren, with Aston Upton, won through with a new British record Score and then took the Bronze Medal Match in the Air Rifle Mixed Team event.

At the 46th Intershoot, held in The Hague, The Netherlands, held from 1st to 3rd February 2024, Wales fielded 11 competitors along with 12 other people – 15 by air and 8 by vehicles via Eurotunnel.
Olympic Finals placing
Day 1
James Miller 2nd in Mens Senior Pistol Final
Sasha Mikhailov 5th in the Mens Junior Pistol Final
Lucy Banner 6th in the Womens Junior Pistol Final
Michael Whalley 6th in the Mens Senior Rifle Final
Seren Thorne 5th in the Womens Junior Rifle Final
Day 2
James Miller 2nd in Mens Senior Pistol Final
Sasha Mikhailov 3rd in the Mens Junior Pistol Final
Lucy Banner 3rd in the Womens Junior Pistol Final
1st in Junior Mens Rifle team
3rd in Junior Womens Rifle team
Day 3
James Miller 1st in Mens Senior Pistol Final
Sasha Mikhailov 2nd in the Mens Junior Pistol Final
Lucy Banner 1st in the Womens Junior Pistol Final
Michael Whalley 2nd in the Mens Senior Rifle Final
Oliver McCabe 6th in the Mens Junior Rifle Final

Congratulations to all Welsh athletes who competed and congratulations to all medal winners and those who set new Personal Bests (PBs).

On the Saturday, in Rifle Women Junior, Seren Thorne set a new Welsh Record Score of 621.8, this score also setting a new British Record Score (subject to ratification).
Amy Lott also set a new Welsh Record Score in Rifle Women Senior of 624.6.
Updated rankings added to the Rankings web page, following the 2023 Welsh Airgun Championships.

The Welsh Airgun Association is to commence a closer partnership with the Welsh Target Shooting Federation by hiring the 10m airgun range in Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, on one weekend day a month, starting with Saturday 13th May 2023.

Association members may book an AM (9-12) and/or a PM (2-5) slot by email to: waaenquires@gmail.com There will a nominal cost of £5.00 per slot, payable in advance to the Association.

The sessions will be for Novice to Elite level shooters interested in developing their Sporter, Precision Pistol, and Precision Rifle skills, and will also be an opportunity for WAA coaches to observe those athletes wishing to begin the Pathway to be selected to represent Wales at domestic and International competitions.

Association members may register their request to attend as a Pathway athlete by emailing: waaenquires@gmail.com by the 31st of May 2023, stating their name, discipline(s) and current average score(s).

Welsh athletes had a successful time at the 2023 British Open Air Gun Championships, held at Bisley, over the weekend of 25th/26th February 2023.

Craig Welsh (WSPS SH1 Rifle) took 1st place to take the Championship.

Sasha Mikhailov (Junior Mens Pistol) took 1st place to become Junior Mens Air Pistol Champion.

Lucy Banner (Junior Womens Pistol) took 1st place to become Junior Womens Air Pistol Champion.

Seren Thorne (Junior Womens Rifle) gained 2nd place in the Junior Womens Air Rifle Olympic Final.

Megan Bamsey (Rifle Women) won through to 5th place in her first Olympic Final as a senior.
Eliott Bromfield (Mens Pistol) and Kate Thomas (Junior Womens Pistol) made their respective Olympic Finals.
Douglas Floyd, Oliver McCabe and Aidan Healy made up 3 of the 8 athletes in the Junior Mens Rifle Olympic Final.

Updated rankings added to the Rankings web page following the 2022 CSF(ED) Championships, hosted in Wales by the Welsh Target Shooting Federation.

The Welsh Target Shooting Federation will run a three-day air rifle and air pistol Welsh Championship at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, over the dates 3rd to 6th November 2022.
Format of the meeting to be advised.

Information at the following link:- 2022 Welsh Airgun Championships

The Be Active Wales Fund offers grants from £300 to £50,000 for projects in Wales.
More information from:-
Be Active Wales Fund

The Welsh Target Shooting Federation (WTSF) is seeking applications for consideration to compete for Wales at the 2022 Junior International, to be held at Bisley, over Monday 8th August to Thursday 11 August 2022.

Further information, and the link to the Expression of Interest form is available via the WTSF 2022 Junior International web page:-
2022 Junior International

Congratulations to all Welsh competitors who travelled to compete in the 2022 British Open Air Gun Championships, held at Bisley, over the weekend of 26th/27th February 2022.

Megan Bamsey took 1st place to become Junior Womens Air Rifle Champion.

In the same Olympic Final, Seren Thorne took 3rd place.

In the Junior Mens Air Pistol Olympic Final, James Miller took 2nd place.

All results from the WTSF 2021 Welsh Airgun Championships are available from the following link:-

2021 Welsh Airgun Championships results

Due to the uncertainty over coronavirus, the Association has decided not to run the 2021 Welsh Airgun, however, the Welsh Target Shooting Federation will run a three-day air rifle and air pistol Welsh Championship at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, over the dates 7th to 10th October 2021.
Format of the meeting to be advised.

Information at the following link:- 2021 Welsh Airgun Championships

The 2021 Welsh target Sprint Championship is sheduled to take place on 21st August 2021 in Llandovery.
More details from this link:- 2021 Welsh Target Sprint Championships

At the recent 2020 Annual General meeting, held by the Zoom internet conferencing service for the first time, Hilary Thomas stepped down as a Director and Robert Shawyer joined the Board as a Director.

Due to the uncertain situation with coronavirus, the WAA Board has taken the decision to cancel the 2020 Welsh Airgun event, orginally scheduled to take place in Cardiff between 23rd to 25th October 2020.

Whilst things have been continually evolving, not enough information is available to plan ahead with some certainty; we recognize that this decision will come as a disappointment, however, we hope you will understand why this decision has been taken.

We are looking forward to providing athletes with a full 3-day event in 2021.

Due to the uncertain situation with coronavirus, the WAA Board has decided to delay the release of the entry form for the 2020 Welsh Airgun.
The delay will allow more clarity on the situation with indoor sport, hotels, travel, etc., within Wales.
A decision will be taken towards the end of July and it is hoped that the entry form can be released in the first week of August 2020.

""Target Sprint Cymru" at the season's first British Shooting Super League  …"

"The focus continues on training in preparation  …"

The 2020 Welsh Airgun will be held over the weekend of 23rd to 25th October 2020.

"Sunday 25th of August saw the big event of the weekend  …"

""Target Sprint Cymru” at the GB Junior International 2019  …"

The 2019/2020 Welsh Schools Pistol Championship event will take place  …

"Welsh Junior pistol athlete James Miller set new personal standards at the British Pistol Club Open Championships over the weekend 22/23 June."  …

The 2019 entry form and booklet are now available,  …

"Target Sprint Cymru has had another fantastic month…"

"Wow, what another busy month Target Sprint Cymru has had…"

Target Sprint rankings added to the Rankings web page and Target Sprint Record Scores added to the Records web page.

First competition of the season saw five Welsh Athletes compete at Yate Regional centre.

Target Sprint is an International Sport Shooting Federation "ISSF" recognised and promoted sport under the ambit of "sport for all" with World tour and World Championship events. The ISSF have pushed this sport, as have British Shooting, much to their credit.

The team travelled by car, mini-bus and air to The Hague for Intershoot 2019, with practice on the Thursday followed by three days of competition.