Six-time Olympian Fehaid Aldeehani battled wet and blustery conditions to win the gold medal in the men’s double trap event yesterday.
A 49-year-old Kuwaiti competing under the Olympic flag, Aldeehani defeated Marco Innocenti, of Italy, in the duel for gold, nailing 26 orange targets out of 30 to Innocenti’s 24. Aldeehani won bronze in double trap in Sydney 2000, when he became the first Kuwaiti of any sport to win a medal at the Olympic Games. He won another bronze in trap in London 2012.
There was a “bittersweet” feeling for a British shooting club as Steven Scott won a bronze medal, beating his team-mate Tim Kneale in a head-tohead contest.
Scott, 31, beat Kneale 30-28 and gave Britain a second shooting bronze medal at Rio 2016 after Ed Ling finished third in the trap on Monday. Ed Barker runs the shooting club in Nuthampstead, north Hertfordshire, where Scott and Kneale train, and it is the first time the club has had two people in a final at the Olympics.