Clay­ton Clarke

Three-time Olympic shoot­er Roger Daniel will be go­ing for gold at the Cana­di­an Air­gun Grand Prix at the Dou­ble­tree In­ter­na­tion­al Ho­tel in Toron­to, Cana­da, which be­gins to­day and ends to­mor­row.

The mul­ti­ple Pan Amer­i­can and Com­mon­wealth Games medal­list was a dou­ble win­ner at the 2011 edi­tion of the meet, cop­ping the Men's Open Pis­tol and Mas­ters 60-Shot Air Pis­tol events.

The T&T Reg­i­ment cor­po­ral will be joined by Mar­sha Bullen-Jones who was third in the Women's 40-Shot Air Pis­tol event two years ago, where she cap­tured her first in­ter­na­tion­al medal for T&T. The pair left for Cana­da yes­ter­day.

The Grand Prix is the largest in­ter­na­tion­al air­gun com­pe­ti­tion in North Amer­i­ca. The shoot­ing range fea­tures 71 po­si­tions for air ri­fle and air pis­tol, four of which are des­ig­nat­ed sole­ly for dis­abled ac­cess, with elec­tric tar­get car­ri­ers on all po­si­tions. There will al­so be a Cadet prone range and a sep­a­rate Cadet 6-po­si­tion stand­ing range.

The air pis­tol and air ri­fle events will be run in ac­cor­dance with ISSF rules wher­ev­er pos­si­ble.The over­all top 8 in the men's and the top 8 in the women's events (in­clud­ing in­ter­na­tion­al ju­niors and sub-ju­niors) will then com­pete in a 10-shot fi­nal to de­ter­mine the Open win­ners. The fi­nals will fol­low the pre­vi­ous for­mat, not the for­mat be­ing in­tro­duced by the ISSF on Jan­u­ary 1, 2013. The dis­abled ri­fle match will con­sist of a 120-shot ag­gre­gate of 60 shots stand­ing and 60 shots prone. The dis­abled pis­tol com­pe­ti­tion is 120 shots.