Wellington School Teacher Shoots to the World Championships

01 May 2018

A Wellington School teacher has been selected to represent GB in a World Championship contest.

Matthew Charlton, who teacher Modern Foreign Languages, has been selected for the Great Britain Rifle Team for the World Long Range Rifle Championship in New Zealand in 2019. This will be Mr. Charlton’s eleventh tour and third World Championship with the Great Britain team, with whom he won the Gold Medal in 2007 (Ottawa) and 2011 (Brisbane).

The team World Championship match, the “Palma Match”, was first contested in 1867 in the USA and now features teams of sixteen firers and five wind readers and tacticians, who compete at distances of 800, 900 and 1000 yards, using .308 rifles with iron sights. Next year’s competition will be held at Trentham Ranges, close to Wellington in New Zealand.

Photo: Matthew Charlton – World Champion rifle shooter