Australia wins world target shooting championships at TrenthamPhil Reid Mike Collings (Te Puke) was in the New Zealand team that finished fifth at the world long range target shooting championships at Trentham (file photo). The Australian team won the world long range target shooting championships title, collecting the Palma Trophy on Sunday after an intense competition at the Trentham range near Upper Hutt. Their triumph followed Sydney shooter Jim Bailey's victory in the 2019 Ballinger Belt New Zealand championships at Trentham on February 2. The Palma Trophy finale brought to an end over two weeks of international target shooting by nearly 400 competitors . The next Palma team shoot and world champs will be in South Africa in 2023.

Source: Stuff February 11, 2019 00:22 UTC