George Digweed has won the World All Round Championship in the USA. Below is a press release from the Digweed agency about this latest win.

THE WORLD ALL ROUND CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008.
 
This was the second year of staging the World All Round Championships in the history of clay shooting. An event created by an American in 2007, who wanted to find out who was the best "All Round" Shooting Champion.
George went to Dallas 10 days ago to defend his title, having won the event by 23 targets last year, he was hot favourite to do it again, but many of the competitors had been putting a lot of practice in over the past year, so they were fully prepared for the battle that lay ahead.
Thirty top shooters from around the World were going to be battling it out over 4 days for the title. 900 targets were to be shot, 13 different disciplines, some would be seen in the Olympics in Bejing this year, and some would not.
The 13 events were all going to be tough, some shooters were champions in their own disciplines, but the idea of the event was to find the overall champion of 900 targets. A real marathon event, and not for the faint hearted.
The competition was staged at the beautiful Dallas Gun Club over 3 days with one day held at Prairie Creek Gun Club.
The first day were the American trap events, 6 of the 30 shooters were "professional" trap shooters, and were certain to be at the top of the leader board after the first day. In fact, only one of the trap shooters really shone at this event, with George came in a very close second. A great result for George, as this was not really in his "comfort zone". Also, the American skeet was shot on the first day, which George came second in.
The Sporting was held at Prairie Creek in Kilgore, a 3 hour drive from Dallas. The course setters were well known for putting on tough targets, and this would suit George as he was on "home ground" with Sporting.
It was a 100 clay target event, the heat was well over 90 degrees and the crowds all turned up to watch George do what he does best - Sporting.
After 5 stands George had missed 10 targets, a total disaster, he said that he had never shot Sporting so badly, and could only put it down to the fact that his "timing" had gone in Sporting due to shooting the other dicsiplines, but this was what was making the competition so interesting as the leader board was changing rapidly after every event. George finished on an 87, with Dave Hughes from Wales shooting a 94. This pushed Dave up the leader board and George down to 3rd overall by the end of the day.
The next day was the skeet, Helice and Olympic Trap, the ISU Skeet was probably the hardest discipline over the 13 events of all. George had really struggled with this last year, but had been putting in quite a bit of work back home for this years event, and it certainly paid off. By the end of the day he was nipping at the heals of the leader, and tomorrow was Sporting and Flyers, and this was a day that George would be 100% in his comfort zone ..... or so he thought.
The last day was 5 stand and FITASC, another of George's strong events, but after the day he had had at Prarie Creek, his confidence was a little battered
A 88/100 at 5 stand bought him back up to 2nd place, and then an outstanding 67/75 on FITASC bought him even closer to the leader.
George was now only 3 targets behind the leader, Scott Robertson from America. They now had 25 targets to shoot for the Super Final. Could George make up 3 targets on Scott over only 25 targets to force him into a shoot off?
The crowds gathered in the searing heat to watch who was going to be crowned the World All Round Champion.
The targets were tough in the final, a bonus for George as he had the capability of making up 3 targets if he kept his cool and dug deep for Great Britain.
Scott dropped four on the first two stations, George only dropped one. This made them level. Now the pressure was on. The crowds hushed, and the two men gritted their teeth for the final three stations.
Scott dropped another three, George didn't ..... game over! The crowds went mad, it was wonderful to see the American spectators cheering and clapping for a British shooter.
George won the event by 3 targets, he had to work hard for it, and was pushed right to the last event, but he was crowned the 2008 World All Round Champion again.
George would like to thank Perazzi, Gamebore, Hi Def Spex and Ambassador Services for thier continued support.