JERSEY won nine medals at the Commonwealth Shooting Federation (European Division) Championship held in the Island last weekend.

The highlights of the event included a fantastic performance from the de la Haye brothers who made it through to the Olympic Skeet Clay final.

Andrew, lying just one point behind the leader, Great Britain’s No 1 Tim James, going into the final, managed to claw back the point but missed out on the gold medal on count-back.

Jonathan, meanwhile finished sixth.

‘It’s fascinating to reflect that, had the brothers been entered as a pairs team they would have tied with James and Robinson of England, respectively No 1 and 2 in Great Britain, and taken gold on count-back,’ noted honorary secretary of the Jersey Shooting Federation and organiser Derek Bernard.

Another thrilling final was had in the air rifle as David Turner shot brilliantly to overcome the seemingly unassailable seven point lead of Martin Blake of Wales (670.20) to take gold with 672.10.

Peter Le Marinel was sixth and Shane Lopez-Rubio seventh.

Colin Mallett also impressed as he won Queens three (shot at 900 and 1000 yards) of the fullbore rifle, after earlier lying in the middle of the order following Queens one and two at 300, 500 and 600 yards, to take silver with 402.51.

David Le Quesne was fourth with 399.56, Chris Cotillard tenth (397.51) and Richard Benest 14th with 394.45.

Benest and Le Quesne then joined for the pairs match and finished fourth, five points behind Scotland.

In the Air Pistol, Wales’ Ian Harris shot consistently well to build up a commanding nine point lead over Mike Quénault at the start of the Olympic final and as the two tied exactly in the concluding round, Quénault settled for second with 650.60 as Dave Ward took bronze with 640.50 and Bob Carroll fifth with 631.40.

Despite a near-disaster in her last series, Mary Norman went on to win the ladies’ event by a good margin with 460.2.

Guernsey took the win in the sport pistol ladies’ pairs with 1,068 as Jennie Ward, who finished third in the individual event (no bronze awarded) and Shirley Baudains, who individually finished sixth, took second for Jersey on 1,042, however, only one medal was awarded with only three teams contesting.

Dave Ward was five points behind Wales’ Steve Pengelly for silver in the standard pistol.

Bob Carroll won bronze as Mike Quénault and Derek Bernard finished sixth and eighth respectively.

Ward and Carroll then joined to win the pairs, but no medals were awarded.

In the centre fire pistol Quénault recovered from a poor precision series, where he was lying in fifth and was a daunting 12 points behind the leader at that stage, to produce an excellent rapid series (six points clear of anyone else) to take silver, finishing only three points behind the leader.

Dave Ward was fourth (557), Carroll fifth (548) and Bernard seventh with 543.

Gordon Proctor was Jersey’s highest finisher in the smallbore prone rifle, finishing eighth with 580.

Andy Chapman (580) was tenth, Richard Bouchard (579) 12th and Kevin De Gruchy 14th.

In the ladies’ event, Sue De Gruchy was the Island’s top scorer with 572 for seventh as Mary Norman finished one point behind in eighth.

And in the team event both sides finished fourth – Kevin De Gruchy and Bouchard just one point behind Wales, and Sue De Gruchy and Mary Norman two points adrift from Wales in the ladies’ event.