Welcome to the Staffordshire CPSA Olympic Trap (OTR) Page

As it's name indicates, this is one of the disciplines which forms part of the shooting programme at the Olympic Games.

A trench in front of the shooting stands conceals 15 traps arranged with one group of three for each of the five shooting stands (or pegs).

Shooters take turns to shoot at a target each, before moving in a clockwise direction to the next stand in the line. Targets for each shooter are thrown immediately upon the shooter's call and are selected by a shooting scheme that ensures all competitors receive exactly the same target selection. Olympic Trap targets are much faster and with more varied angles and heights than DTL targets.

Scoring is done of the basis of one point per target hit, regardless of whether this is achieved with the first or with the second barrel.

 

Selection Criteria

Where possible, a team of 6 will be selected to represent Staffordshire.

Squad members will be selected from a combination of the top performers at the Staffordshire County Championship and shooting averages at CPSA registered events over the previous 12 month period. The Staffordshire Olympic Trap County Champion will also automatically be selected for the following year's Olympic Trap team.  All selection is subject to availability at the Inter County Championship and payment of the appropriate Staffordshire levy at the County Championship.

Staffordshire CPSA Team Manager: Ian Hull

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 Olympic Trap WM Area & Inter Counties at Fauxdegla - 14 April 2024 

Adam Gutteridge - OT WM Area Champion 2024

Our Staffordshire squad of Adam Gutteridge, Ian Hull, Martin Osbourne, James Sutton, Ray Sutton, Darren Wood came home with a terrific Bronze medal – well done lads! 

And to top off a great day, Adam Gutteridge saw off some very strong competition to take a terrific WM Area Gold with 92ex100. Absolutely brilliant, Adam 

Our sincere thanks to Mike, Debbie and all the team at Fauxdegla International Clay Shooting Centre for running another excellent competition.

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 Leah makes Team GB squad for Italy - 26 March 2024 

Leah Southall has been selected to represent British Shooting in the Olympic Trap Women’s Junior team at the upcoming European Championships in Lonato, Italy from 15^th to 27^th May.  Good luck Leah!

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 Olympic Trap European Championship - Osijek, Croatia 

A simply BRILLIANT Bronze for British Shooting Team GB’s Tegan Hart, Maddie Purser and our very own Leah Southall in the OT Women's Junior event at the recent ESC European Championship in Croatia.

The young trio shot an excellent 193/225 in qualification to face Turkey in the Bronze Medal match. Safe to say that it was every bit as close and dramatic as you would expect, with Team GB holding their nerve to take the Bronze by a score of 7-3.

Terrific performance from Team GB – well done Teghan, Maddie and Leah - Woop! Woop! 

Steve Kilner - Vice-Chair and Secretary

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Olympic Trap: WM Area and Inter County Championships - 9 July 2023

On Sunday, Fauxdegla International Clay Shooting Centre once more hosted the OT West Midlands Area and Inter County Championships.

Delighted to report that the Staffordshire team of Ian Hull (Team Manager), Adam Gutteridge, Martn Osborne, Jamie Sutton, Ray Sutton and Darren Wood put in a terrific combined score of 425 ex 625 to take the GOLD medal , ahead of Warwickshire CPSA and Cheshire CPSA, who took Silver and Bronze respectively.

Benjamin Killian of Warwickshire tied with our own Darren Wood for individual WM Area Gold and High Gun with 93ex100. Adam Gutteridge was also in superb form, hitting a fine 90 to share Bronze with Graham Evans of Shropshire.

Well done to everyone who took part and all the teams - it was a great competition. Visit the Fauxdegla Facebook page for the full results or the CPSA website: https://www.cpsa.co.uk/scores/fixture/olympic-trap-fauxdegla-shooting-ground-20230709/112684 

A big THANK YOU to Mike and Debbie Faux at Fauxdegla International Clay Shooting Centre for being such brilliant hosts, as always.

Steve – Vice-Chair and Secretary

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💥 Olympic Trap Staffs County Championship - 22 April 2023 💥

A terrific Staffs OT Championship at Doveridge today with a great turnout of the County's top OT shooters.   Delighted to report that our County Champion for 2023 is Marcus Iddon.  His score of 44/50 edged out reigning champion Ian Hull (42) to take the overall High Gun and Veterans trophies.

Marcus Iddon and Ian Hull

GREAT SHOOTING MARCUS! 💥👏👏

Ian matched him nearly all the way to take runner-up spot with Peter Read third on 41. Adam Gutteridge was the highest placed Senior with 40/50, whose score was matched by Veteran Colin Heathcote.

Sadly, no Ladies or Juniors entered this year so if you’re in that category, come along next year and give it a go!

Many congratulations to everyone who took part – we hope you all had a great time. Thanks again to Team Manager, Paul Bailey for all his work organising a great shoot and to Doveridge for putting this on for us.

Steve

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 Olympic Trap County Championship - 22nd April 2023 

 Date: Saturday 22nd April

 Venue: Doveridge Clay Sports Centre

50 CPSA Registered

To register to compete in the Staffs Olympic Trap County Championship:

 Call 01889 565 986 or

 Email info@doveridgeclaysports.co.uk

 https://www.doveridgeclaysports.co.uk/ 

The CPSA Staffordshire OT County Championship will take place at Doveridge Clay Sports Centre on Saturday 22nd April.

Contact Doveridge directly on 01889 565 986 to book your place.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Paul Bailey, Olympic Trap Team Manager

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💥 Olympic Trap - Super Leah Strikes Silver 💥

💥 Nordic Championships, Finland - 1-5 August 2022 💥

Staffordshire's Leah Southall was representing Team GB for the first time at Olympic Trap, taking part in the Junior Ladies team at the Nordic Championships in Orimattila, Finland last week.

Leah qualified with a fine PB of 109/125 to see her into the Junior ladies final. Having had a slow start, things really kicked into gear and Leah shot superbly to make it into the Gold medal match, finishing with a brilliant Silver medal 🥈 in her very first international final. A fantastic achievement, Leah 👏

Sadly, Leah has suffered a small fracture in her wrist after a fall and will be in plaster for the next few weeks. I'm sure everyone in Staffordshire CPSA would like to wish Leah a speedy recovery so she can get back to doing what she does best - smashing targets and doing us all proud.

Steve Kilner, Vice-Chair and Secretary - Staffordshire CPSA

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💥 Olympic Trap: WM Area and Inter County Championships - 2 July 2022 💥

Cracking day of shooting as the magnificent Fauxdegla International Clay Shooting Centre hosted the OT West Midlands Area and Inter County Championships.

Delighted to report that the Staffordshire team of Dave Winter, Martin Osborne, Martin Hambleton, Luke Hambleton and Team Manager, Paul Bailey came away with a terrific Bronze medal 🥳👏🥉

Congratulations to Hereford & Worcester CPSA who took Gold and to Cheshire CPSA for a fine Silver 👏

Mike Faux tied with our own Dave Winter for West Midlands High Gun with 94ex100. After a shoot off, Mike took the Gold, pipping Dave by 24 to 23. Absolutely terrific shooting by both of you 👏

Please click on the link to view the full results https://is.gd/sxNN6h

A big THANK YOU to Mike and Debbie Faux at Fauxdegla International Clay Shooting Centre for being such brilliant hosts, as always.

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 England Olympic Trap Selection Shoot - 22 May 2022 

  

More terrific shooting from one of our top trap shooters, Leah Southall 

Leah's score of 173/200 is a fine score at the best of times but to do it in an England Selection Shoot is exceptional. 6th overall and 1st in Ladies, Juniors and her class - brilliant!

Well done, Leah - you continue to do yourself, your family and Staffordshire proud 

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💥 Olympic Trap Staffs County Championship - 14 May 2022 💥

Cracking day for the Staffs OT Championship at Doveridge. Good turnout of the County's top OT shooters saw Ian Hull put in a tremendous performance to take the overall High Gun and Veterans trophies with an impressive 45ex50.

      

WELL SHOT IAN! 💥👏👏

Paul Bailey matched him almost all the way to take the Senior trophy with 44. Adam Gutteridge and Joss Read tied third hitting fine 43s.

An excellent performance from Gill Grealey saw her pick up yet another Ladies trophy! Well done, Gill.

  

Many congratulations to all the trophy winners and to all those who shot - hope you all had a great time. Thanks again to Team Manager, Paul Bailey for all his work organising a great shoot and to Doveridge for putting this on for us.

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 Olympic Trap (OTR) County Championship 2022

 

 Saturday 14th May
 Doveridge Clay Sports & Leisure
 01889 565 986
 enquiries@doveridgeclaysports.co.uk
 https://www.doveridgeclaysports.co.uk/

The Olympic Trap Staffs County Championship will take place at Doveridge on Saturday 14th May.

50 targets.
Contact Doveridge directly to book your place.

If you've never shot Olympic Trap before and would like to have a go, contact us and we'll put you in touch with the Staffs Teams Manager, Paul Bailey who will be happy to help.

Good luck to everyone taking part and we look forward to seeing you there

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World Shooting Para Sport 

 Para Trap Championships - 24th Sept 2021 

Well done Paul Bailey!

Paul proudly represented Great Britain (and Staffordshire!) as he competed in the Shotgun PT1 - Mixed Trap in the third edition of the WSPS Para Trap championships in the magnificent surroundings of Lake Garda, Italy.

Paul had a great tournament, missing out on the final by just ONE target! Terrific effort.

Huge congratulations to Nikolaou Neofytos (Cyprus) who claimed the win with Oloriz (Spain) winning in PT2 and Italian Emilio Poli equaling the world record to take the win in PT3.

Looks like it was a cracking event. You can view all the results here: https://is.gd/G3eKPx

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World Shooting Para Sport Para Trap Championships

- 24-26 Sept 2021 

Everyone at Staffordshire CPSA would like to wish Bailey Paul the very best of luck this weekend.

Trap Concaverde shooting range in Lonato del Garda, Italy will host the 3rd edition of the World Shooting Para Sport Para Trap championships in which Paul is competing.

77 athletes from 19 countries will take part in the two-day event. Anyone who knows Paul will know he's one of the very finest ambassadors for our sport and a real champion for Staffordshire shooting.

GOOD LUCK PAUL - WE'RE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU

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 Olympic Trap British Grand Prix - 5th Sept 2021 

A cracking weekend of shooting saw the Olympic Trap British Grand Prix taking place at Fauxdegla Shooting Ground.

An excellent competition with Nathan Hales of Kent taking the trophy with a superb 197ex200, edging out Staffordshire’s Adam Gutteridge with David Kirk of Yorkshire taking third.

Well done to all three and great shooting.

Tom Betts of Hereford & Worcester took Gold in the Juniors.

Many congratulations also to Leah Southall who shot a new 2 day PB to take second place in Junior Ladies.

Some great shooting on display and well done to everyone who took part.

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 Olympic Trap Home International - 22 Aug 2021 

At Grifffin-Lloyd Shooting Ground

Adam Gutteridge had the honour of captaining the WINNING England team at the 44th Home International of Olympic Trap.

England took home four of the six team awards to become the Overall Winning Country.

Congratulations to all those who took part and well done Adam and all in Team England!

Back Row: Fred Thornley, Ellie Seward, Lucy Hall, Tom Betts, Mike Faux, Matt Mills, Lee Betts, Ben Killian, Mark Robinson, Roger Westaway

Front Row: Mark Shaw, Cory Doble, Anita North (Manager), Adam Gutteridge (Captain), Dean Molnar, Charlie Madden, Rod Gould

(Absent from photo: Steve Scott)

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Olympic Trap - Staffordshire County Championship - 31 July 2021 

At Doveridge Clay Sports.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the OT Staffordshire County Championships under cloudy skies at Doveridge today.

Many congratulations to our new County Champions!!:

Senior - Adam Gutteridge

Runner-up - Paul Bailey

Ladies - Gill Grealey

Veteran - Ian Hull

  

Paul Bailey & Senior Champion - Adam Gutteridge    Paul Bailey and Veteran Champion, Ian Hull

Ladies Champion, Gill Grealey with Ian Hull

Well done everyone

Big thank you as always to Doveridge for hosting the shoot!

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 English Open Olympic Trap - 11 July 2021 

Great weekend of competition at East Yorkshire Clay Shooting Ground in the CPSA English Open Olympic Trap.

Delighted to report that Staffordshire's Leah Southall, helped by a PB in her second round, came home with an excellent Bronze medal in the Junior Ladies.

Great shooting, Leah!

Pictured: Leah receiving her GB badge from coach, Rod Gould.

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 Staffordshire Olympic Trap County Championships  

Doveridge Shooting Ground 17^th March 2019

Left to right: Alex Tinsley, Adam Gutteridge, Ian Hull, Gill Grealey, Alan Grealey

The weather on the day was mixed; we had sun, rain, biting wind, snow all in the space of a few hours.  Shooting conditions were mixed and very tricky.  All the shooters dealt with it well and there were some good scores.

It was great to see three Juniors who braved the conditions.  Hats off to Alex Tinsley, George Bailey & Derbyshire Junior Danielle Griffin - great effort guys and thanks for coming and giving it a go!  The sport needs young guns like you.

Well done to Paul Bailey for organising the event, plus a huge thank you to Carl Harlow from Solware in Tamworth for very kindly donating the prizes for the winners and runners up. Winners on the day were as follows:

Senior County Champion:  Adam Gutteridge 44/50

Veteran County Champion:  Ian Hull 36/50

Ladies County Champion:  Gill Grealey 28/50

Junior County Champion:  Alex Tinsley 40/50

Senior Runner Up:  Darren Wood 42/50

Veteran Runner Up:  Alan Grealey 35/50

Junior Runner Up:  George Bailey 14/50

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 Staffordshire Olympic Trap County Championships  

Fauxdegla Shooting Ground 25^th March 2018

Although a little early in the year & with a packed calendar ahead the day was cold to start but dry then sunny, great targets were enjoyed by all who attended.

L to R: Carl Harlow (Solware), Gill Grealey, Adam Gutteridge, Ian Hull, Alan Grealey

Staffordshire County Champion:  Adam Gutteridge

Veteran County Champion:  Alan Grealey

Ladies County Champion:  Gill Grealey

Junior County Champion:  Alex Tinsley

Thank you to Carl Harlow from Solware, who kindly donated the prizes for all the winners.  And thank you very much to Mike and Debbie at Fauxdeglla for hosting the event.

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 West Midlands Area & Staffs County Olympic Trap Championship 23/07/2017 

 Held at Griffin Lloyd Shooting Ground 

 

A massive thank you to all the shooters who turned out to shoot this event especially to all the team members that hadn’t even shot OT before, great results for the county, also a huge thank you to Paul Bailey for taking on the Staffs OT team manger role, this will be a great help.

 

West Midlands Area Team Bronze for Staffordshire

Staffs Senior Team Members

A Gutteridge, Paul Bailey, Dave Winter, James Sutton,

Ray Sutton, Greg Sinclair.

West Midlands Area Junior OT Champion

Harry Sinclair. Gold Medal

Adam Tinsley. Silver Medal

 

As there was a big entry the competition was shortened to 75 targets to save time on what was a long day.

In some of the categories we had some OT first timers who kindly stepped up    to the team, thank you for your support we appreciate their support.

 

Graham Wainwright very kindly sponsored some new Trophies for the staff’s

Championship

 

Staffordshire County Championship

HIGH GUN & STAFFS COUNTY CHAMPION

Adam Gutteridge 66/75  

STAFFS JUNIOR COUNTY CHAMPION

Harry Sinclair 64/75

Adam Tinsley 62/75

 

STAFFS VETTS COUNTY CHAMPION

GRAHAM WAINWRIGHT 65/75                                 

STAFFS LADY OT COUNTY CHAMPION

Gill Grealey 51/75    

Sorry for the lack of photos due to the day over running many of the team members had left prior to the medals being given out. 

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