A pupil at Wellington School has won an outstanding shooting victory for the third time in a row.
Theo Ling, Year 9, came first in the English Open Championships in the Under 16 class. He competed in the ATB (Automated Ball Trap) discipline at the championships which were run by the Clay Pigeon Shooting Association at the Brook Bank Shooting Ground. Theo is the only person to have won the coveted title three years in a row!
He also travelled to Portugal to compete in the Under 21 Universal Trench discipline in the European Championships in June, where he came fourth amidst a really tough field of significantly older competitors.
These triumphs build on a history of success, as last year he won a Gold Medal and a Bronze Medal in the U21 European Clay Pigeon Shooting Championships in Granada, Spain and was one of the youngest competitors to make the Great Britain team. He won Gold in the U16 Olympic Trap and Bronze for the U21 Universal Trench discipline.
The Year 9 pupil has been shooting since he was 8 and is the brother of Ed Ling, who competed for Great Britain in the London 2012 Olympics last summer and has won the World and European Championships. His father, Stephen Ling, was a GB Olympic coach and has been training his boys enthusiastically.