Emms crowned World Champion, Pozzebon wins bronz

MEDIA PRESS RELEASE

Wednesday 12 August 2015

Media Contact: Sunita Miranda, Shooting Australia Media & Communications Manager on 0431 442 204 or sunita@shootingaustralia.org

Stock and Station agent Ben Emms (Central Tablelands, NSW) has been crowned the new World Champion, claiming the title with confidence in the World Individual Long Range Championships, at Camp Perry, Ohio.

Making history as the first Australian to win this World Championship, an event introduced in 1992, Emms displayed enormous talent at this ‘marathon of shooting’, the pinnacle event in long-range fullbore rifle shooting.

Emms finished on the top of the leader-board, with a score of 669.77 (out of a possible 675), ahead of Nigel Ball (UK) on 668.75 and in third place, was fellow Aussie Matthew Pozzebon (West Wallsend, NSW) on 667.78.

Shooting Australia CEO Damien Marangon praised the athletes for their outstanding achievements.

“To have two Australians on the podium at the World Championship is a phenomenal achievement, a result that will show the world our dominance in this highly competitive sport,” Marangon said.

Pozzebon did Australia proud last week when he won the 2015 US National Fullbore Championship title, an event that Emms had won in 2014.

The 27-year-old Mechanical Engineer took up the sport at the age of 12 Clearly very talented, Pozzebon rose to fame, after collecting the Victorian Queen’s Prize, early last year.

A ‘Futures’ member of Shooting Australia’s Aiming4Gold squad, Pozzebon is supported by the Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA), under the body’s NextGEN AUSComGames Squad Program.

In other results from Camp Perry, Angus Martin placed third in the U21 WC and Jess Bales came fourth in the U25 WC.

The Teams (Palma) match will be held from 13 - 14 August 2015.