GB team shooters Neil Stirton and Jon Hammond got through the elimination round of the Men's 3P event at the ISSF Shooting World Championships in Munich

SIS supported athlete's Stirton and Hammond had 1153 ex 1200 and 1156 respectively - to reach Wednesday morning's (4 August) qualification round.

On Monday (2 August), in one of the highest standard final qualifiers ever seen, the Scots trio of  Matthew Thomson, Neil Stirton, Jon Hammond fell agonisingly short of reaching the 50m Men's Prone final. Stirton scored 596 as did Thomson and Hammond scored 595, but it was not enough as the all the eight finalists scored 598 or above. Matthew Emmons made it through but there was no room for Warren Potent. In the end the title was won by Sergei Martynov of Belarus whose 104.9 was enough to triumph ahead of France's Valerian Sauveplane by 0.1 points, with Emmons third.

The three senior men had made it past the elimination round with Stirton scoring 594, Hammond and Thomson 593 each. Ollie Barron shot 585 in the Junior Men's event to also make it through. He improved that in the Individual round, delivering a highly-impressive 592 but that too was not enough for a medal.

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