Bilo's young gun has his eyes set on the World Cup

BRIGHT FUTURE: Travis Streeter was awarded the 2018 State Junior Championship Award. He also raised $1400 for the Do it for Dolly Foundation. Contributed

by VANESSA JARRETT
27th Jul 2018 9:27 AM

SHOOTING: Travis Streeter has one dream - get to the world championships. And it is almost in his reach.

Fourteen-year-old Travis has been receiving high accolades and awards across the nation in trap shooting.

He competed in Townsville last month, where he took home the 2018 Queensland State Junior Sportsmanship Award.

He also made all the double trap teams, winning the junior, senior and overall Queensland Olympic junior double trap champion, Olympic trap open and junior.

In early June, Travis traveled to Brisbane to compete in the International Shooting Sport Federation State Olympic Trap Championships.

There he made State Olympic double trap teams, open and junior as well as becoming Queensland Junior Olympic Double Trap Champion.

He then he qualified to the next part of the ISSF program, the Queensland Olympic Trap Championships, where he was selected for the Queensland Olympic Trap Open and Junior teams to compete in the Nationals Comp in January next year.

Travis will also go on to shoot at the Sydney Cup next month, another step towards World Cup selection.

The Biloela State High School student is juggling all of this sporting commitment while getting through Year 9.

"It's hard but you get through it,” he said.

Travis Streeter is winning his way to the top in trap shooting, taking home wins in junior, senior and open teams.

He tries to fit in as much practice as he can and is heavily involved with the local Callide Dawson Clay Target Club.

The closest layout in the ISSF form is in Bundaberg, which makes it a bit hard.

He also travels to the Wide Bay region frequently, where his coach, World Cup holder Kevin Perkins, is based.

"He offers a lot of good advice, he tells you what you are doing ... what you need to change,” Travis said.

Even when he is in these state-level competitions, Streeter also competes in open sections, against competitors a lot older than him.

Although it is slightly intimidating he said, you have fun while you are doing it.

"You just go out and worry about yourself and shoot as good as you can,” Travis said.

Solely concentrating on the target is the key to winning.

"You just don't think about anything, you just get everything out of your head and focus on that next target that comes out of the trap,” Travis said.

Part of his success has come from his blood.

His dad, Shane, has 84 national medals from back in the day.

"I am not surprised (about my skills), it is in my genes, it came from my dad,” Travis said.

His ultimate dream and goal is to get to the World Cup.

With all of his strong results, it is exciting to think it could be happening.

"Just thinking you have the chance to get there and giving it a go, having fun, meeting new people,” he said.

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ISSF World Cup Shotgun in Tucson (USA): medals and records

ISSF World Cup Shotgun · Tucson, USA

Team USA closed the last world cup event of the year atop of the medals standings.

Trap Mixed Team event sealed the 2018 ISSF World Cup in Tucson, Arizona, USA, the last ISSF World Cup Stage of the season. 

Thanks to the gold and bronze medals won by US shooters mixed event, the host country finished atop of the medals table with a tally of four medals, including 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze. 

Italy followed in second place with 1 gold, and 2 silver medals, while two countries - Finland and South Korea - tied in third with 1 gold medal each. 

Both the records marked during the world cup stage were scored at the women’s Skeet Final. Gold medalist Kimberly Rhode (USA) equaled the qualification world record of 122 hits. Her opponent Che Yufei of the People’s Republic of China established a new qualification junior world record of 118 hits (athletes in the junior age-class can indeed score junior world record also while shooting among senior athletes). 

Today’s was the last match of the last ISSF World Cup Stage of the year. In 2018, there will be no world cup final, as the ISSF Executive Committee unanimously decided last year to reorganize the World Cup Final calendar, holding the Final once every two years, to not conflict with the Olympic Games and the World Championship. 

International shooters will now meet again at the 52nd ISSF World Championship in all shooting events, to be held in Changwon, South Korea, starting from the 31st of August 2018. The Championship will be the largest shooting competition of the year, with some 2.000 athletes expected to participate. There, the first quota places for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be assigned. 

Medal standings - after 5 out of 5 events

Rank	Nation	Individual			Team			Total
		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	USA	1	1		1		1	2	1	1	4
2	ITA	1	2					1	2		3
3	FIN	1						1			1
3	KOR	1						1			1
5	FRA			2		1			1	2	3
6	ESP		1						1		1
7	GBR			1						1	1
7	SWE			1						1	1
		4	4	4	1	1	1	5	5	5	15

Medalists by Event - individual events

Event	Date	Medal	Name	Nation
Trap Men	17 JUL 2018	Gold	PROSPERI Simone Lorenzo	ITA
		Silver	FRASCA Erminio	ITA
		Bronze	HALES Nathan	GBR
Skeet Men	13 JUL 2018	Gold	LEE Jongjun	KOR
		Silver	TAZZA Giancarlo	ITA
		Bronze	NILSSON Stefan	SWE
Trap Women	16 JUL 2018	Gold	SALMI Marika	FIN
		Silver	GALVEZ Fatima	ESP
		Bronze	COUZY Melanie	FRA
Skeet Women	12 JUL 2018	Gold	RHODE Kimberly	USA
		Silver	CONNOR Caitlin	USA
		Bronze	ANASTASSIOU Lucie	FRA

Medalists by Event - Mixed Team event

Event	Date	Medal	Name	Nation
Trap Mixed Team	18 JUL 2018	Gold	United States of America 2	USA
		Silver	France 2	FRA
		Bronze	United States of America 1	USA

EQUALED QUALIFICATION WORLD RECORDS
Event	Phase	Old / New	Name	Nat	Date
Skeet Women	Qual	122 / 122	RHODE Kimberly	USA	12 JUL 2018

QUALIFICATION WORLD RECORDS JUNIOR
Event	Phase	Old / New	Name	Nat	Date
Skeet Women	Qual	110 / 118	CHE Yufei	CHN	12 JUL 2018

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The highlights of the 2018 ISSF World Cup Shotgun in Tucson (USA)

19.07.2018

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Miraitowa and Someity: Tokyo 2020 mascots make their public debut

Voted by children of many Japanese elementary schools, two futuristic fox-like creatures with special talent were picked as the mascots for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, and presented during a ceremony in the Japanese capital on July 22nd.

733 days before the start of Tokyo 2020, the official mascots of the 32nd edition of the Olympic and Paralympic Games finally made their first public appearance during a ceremony held at the Tokyo Midtown Hibiya on July 22nd.

Voted between December of 2017 and February of 2018 by more than 75% of the elementary schools in Japan — and by a number of overseas Japanese schools — the mascots are named Miraitowa and Someity: two lovable characters with superpowers and abilities to teleport between the digital and the real world.

Miraitowa is the blue-checkered Olympic mascot that merges the Japanese words Mirai and Towa, which stand for future and eternity, respectively. On its head and body, Miraitowa has the same blue patterns as the emblem of the Tokyo 2020 Games, and it expresses the hope of humankind for a bright future stretching off forever.

Its pink-checkered Paralympic counterpart, instead, was named Someity, a word that resembles a popular Japanese cherry blossom variety called Someiyoshino. Also, its pronunciation echoes the English phrase so mighty. Someity embodies Paralympic athletes who demonstrate the superhuman power to overcome obstacles and redefine the boundaries of what is possible.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be held from the 24th of July to the 9th of August, in 2020.

The competition will mark the second time that the Japanese capital city hosts an edition of the Summer Olympics. All the shooting sport events will take place at the Asaka Shooting Range.

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1761 athletes from 105 nations participated in the 2018 ISSF World Cup Series

The yearly competition closed in Tucson (USA) on July 19th, after kicking off last March in Guadalajara (MEX), and stopping in Changwon (KOR), Fort Benning (USA), Munich (GER) and Siggiewi (MLT).

The 2018 ISSF World Cup Series sealed in Tucson (USA) on July 19th, closing a circle that opened almost five month earlier in Mexico.

The inaugural combined stage of the season, indeed, took place in Guadalajara (MEX) from March 1st to March 12th. A total of 400 shooters from 50 nations participated, competing both at the CODE Paradero and at the Club Cinegetico Jalisciense. It was the 12th World Cup stage held on Mexican soil since 1986, following the seven hosted by Mexico City and the four held in Acapulco.

The ISSF World Cup Stage 2 took place in Changwon (KOR) from the 20th to the 30th of April: 866 shooters competed in the 15 Olympic Shooting events, representing 70 National Olympic Committees and testing the brand new Changwon International Shooting Range for the first time.

The following month, two World Cup stages in the Rifle/Pistol disciplines was held in Fort Benning (USA) and Munich (GER): the first one took place at the Fort Benning US Army base from the 7th to the 15th of May, welcoming 295 shooters from 54 nations; the second one was contested at the historic Olympia Schießanlage — the range that hosted shooting sport events at the 1972 Olympic Games — where 790 shooters from 82 NOCs gathered from the 22nd to the 29th.

Hosting an ISSF competition for the very first time, the island of Malta organized the second-to-last World Cup stage of the season: the competition was held at the newly built Malta National Shooting Ranges in Siggiewi from June 5th to June 15th. There, 396 athletes from 60 nations competed in the five Shotgun events.

Finally, the sixth and final stage of the series took place at the Tucson Trap and Skeet Club in Tucson (USA) from July 9th to July 19th: 204 shooters participated, representing 39 National Olympic Committees and once again, battling in the Trap, Skeet and Trap Mixed Team events.

Along with the six ISSF World Cup stages, two ISSF Junior World Cups took place: the first one was held in Sydney (AUS) from March 19th to March 29th, and saw the participation of 144 athletes from 16 nations; the second one, then, took place in Suhl (GER) from June 22nd to June 29th — 750 junior shooters from 61 NOCs competed.

In total, 1761 shooters from 105 nations competed during the 2018 ISSF World Cup Series. Furthermore, a total of 51 new records were set along the season: 38 senior and 13 junior ones.

No World Cup Final will be held at the end of the season, as the ISSF Executive Committee unanimously decided last year to reorganize the World Cup Final calendar, organizing this competition every two years to avoid overlapping with the ISSF World Championship and the Olympic Games. International shooters will now meet at the ISSF World Championship in all events, taking place in Changwon (KOR) from August 31st to September 15th. There, the first Olympic quota places for Tokyo 2020 will be assigned.

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Team USA claim gold and bronze at the Trap Mixed Team, closing WC Tucson on top.

Final Trap Mixed Team

ISSF World Cup Shotgun · Tucson, USA

Corey Cogdell and Casey Wallace pocketed the gold on their home turf, in the last event of the last world cup stage of the year. They will team up also at the forthcoming ISSF World Championship, where the first Olympic quotas will be up for grabs.

USA claimed a Gold and a Bronze medal at today’s Trap Mixed Team final - the last match of the 2018 ISSF World Cup Shotgun in Tucson, Arizona, USA - finishing atop of the overall medal standing of the word cup stage with 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze out of five events. 

Team USA 2, featuring Rio 2016 and Beijing 2008 Olympic Bronze medalist Corey Cogdell and her teammate Casey Wallace, finished atop of the podium with a total tally of 43 hits. 

Their teammates Kayle Browning and William Hinton (Team USA 1) took bronze with 32 hits, while it was Team France 2 that claimed today’s silver with 42 hits thanks to Sebastien Guerrero and Melanie Couzy (who another it to the bronze medal she won two days ago in the individual event). 

Team France 1 (Carole Cormenier and Antonin Desert) did not make it to the podium, as they placed in 4th with 26 hits, ahead of Team Great Britain 1 (Augusta Rose Campos-Martyn and Mark Shaw) - 5th with 22 hits - and of Team Spain 2 (Francisca Munoz De Leon Moral and Antonio Bailon) - 6th with 16 hits after receiving a 1-hit deduction due to reporting late for the final. 

To download the full results of the Trap Mixed Team competition, click here. 

Corey Cogdell said: “This is my first Trap Mixed Team medal, and it feels really great. To win it on our home range is amazing.”

Casey Wallace said: “It was great to have our teammates in the final. The more flags we can put atop of the flag poles, the better for us.” 

“World Championship is next for us, and we will try to build on the momentum we got here, and see what we can do in South Korea.”

“We will be a team together once again there - added Cogdell - we won that opportunity in our last selection match, and we are really looking forward to it.”

Today’s was the last match of the last ISSF World Cup Stage of the year. In 2018, there will be no world cup final, as the ISSF Executive Committee unanimously decided last year to reorganize the World Cup Final calendar, holding the Final once every two years, to not conflict with the Olympic Games and the World Championship. 

International shooters will now meet again at the 52nd ISSF World Championship in all shooting events, to be held in Changwon, South Korea, starting from the 31st of August 2018. The Championship will be the largest shooting competition of the year, with some 2.000 athletes expected to participate. There, the first quota places for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be assigned. 

Medal standings - after 5 out of 5 events

Rank	Nation	Individual			Team			Total
		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	USA	1	1		1		1	2	1	1	4
2	ITA	1	2					1	2		3
3	FIN	1						1			1
3	KOR	1						1			1
5	FRA			2		1			1	2	3
6	ESP		1						1		1
7	GBR			1						1	1
7	SWE			1						1	1
		4	4	4	1	1	1	5	5	5	15

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