GB did not get any athletes into finals in a disappointing day at the Range in Deodoro.

In the R3 (10m Air Rifle Prone Mixed SH1) event 2008 Gold and 2012 Silver medalist Matt Skelhon missed out on the final by a tiny margin.

Only 0.4 points separated 7th and 11th with Skelhon in 11th with a score of 632.1 from his sixty shots. In the final Veronika Vadivicova of Slovakia grabbed her second Gold of the Games. She will be a big threat to World Record holder Skelhon in his favoured R6 (50m Rifle Prone Mixed SH1) later in the Games.

In R4 (10m Air Rifle Prone Mixed SH2) Ryan Cockbill and Richard Davies could not transfer their sparkling 2016 form into the Games finishing 9th and 11th respectively. Both were agonisingly close with Cockbill 0.1 points behind 8th place and Davies 0.4. Davies Games are now over while Cockbill and James Bevis, who finished in 18th, will go again in R5 (10m Air Rifle Prone Mixed SH2).

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