Team GB medal rush in canoeing and shooting

The first gold came in the canoe doubles final where Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott won the gold and David Florence and Richard Hounslow picked up silver.

In the shooting Peter Wilson held his nerve through a tense final of the double trap to pick up the gold medal.

Canoeing

Baillie and Stott won with a time of 106.41 in the canoe slalom doubles final.

In a thrilling duel in front of a roaring home crowd, they beat fellow British paddlers David Florence and Richard Hounslow by 0.36 seconds with Slovakian three-times Olympic champions Pavol and Peter Hochschorner third.

The Hochschorner brothers had not been beaten this year, but failed to match the time set by Stott and Baillie. The last pair to go were Florence and Hounslow, meaning that a British gold was guaranteed.

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Shooting

Throughout the day the shooters fire at 200 clay targets, with the last 50 in the final.

Peter Wilson was up against Kuwait’s Feehaid Aldeehani, Sweden’s Hakan Dahlby, the Hugarian Richard Bognar and Russians Vasily Mosin and Vitaly Fokeev in the final.

He went into the final with a three point lead, closely followed by Kuwaiti and Mosin. Mosin struggled and fell away, but a strong challenge came from Dahlby.

Wilson, the youngest finalist in the competition by 13 years, held his nerve to finish in the gold spot, with the Swede taking silver and the Kuwaiti bronze.

The double trap competition involves two clay targets launched simultaneously in front of the shooter.

The trap is the device which launches the clay targets.

Shooters fire at the targets with shotguns.