Rifle: Hammond Shoots Personal Best at World Cup
June 05, 2007 02:17 PM | General
June 5, 2007
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| Jon Hammond |
MUNICH, Germany – West Virginia University rifle coach Jon Hammond recently finished his competition with Great Britain’s rifle team at the World Cup held in Munich, Germany, last week.
The Aberdeen, Scotland, native shot in the 50-meter three position competition and in the 50-meter prone at the event.
“I am just really happy to compete at the international level again with some of the best shooters in the world,” Hammond says. “On top of that, to have a personal best and do so well made it just a great week. I have a few other competitions coming up in the future and this set me up well for those.”
Hammond set a personal best on his way to finishing 22nd out of 117 shooters with 1168 out of 1200 points in the men’s 50-meter rifle three positions competition. The score was also just one point off the British record shot by Alister Allan in 1990. In the final, Hammond shot 399 in prone for the second consecutive day, 377 in standing and 392 in kneeling to total his personal best score of 1168.
Hammond had shot 1160 in the elimination round on June 1, including 399 in prone, 373 in standing and 388 in kneeling, to qualify for the final on June 2.
In the men’s 50-meter prone event, Hammond did not advance after shooting a 587 and placing 54th in elimination relay I of the competition on May 30.
Complete results can be found for the competition can be found at www.issf.tv
