London 2012 Olympics: Peter Wilson, Etienne Stott and Tim Baillie win gold for Team GB

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  • Britian up to fifth in medal table with 13 – four gold, five
    silver and four bronze 25-year-old
  • Peter Wilson wins gold in men’s double trap shooting at Royal Artillery Barracks
  • Etienne Stott and Tim Baillie won two-man canoe slalom event.
  • They edge out compatriots David Florence and Richard Hounslow into second place
  • Two gold and two silver on great day for Team GB
  • Afternoon’s success follows silver for men in lightweight fours rowing

By
Alex Horlock and Adam Shergold


PUBLISHED:

16:01, 2 August 2012

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UPDATED:

16:10, 2 August 2012

Peter Wilson took gold for Great Britain just five minutes after Etienne Stott and Tim Baillie won gold for team GB in the men’s pairs canoeing – catapulting Great Britain into fifth in the overall Games medal table.

The shotgun shooter led for the majority of the trap shooting competition with 6ft 6in Swede Hakan Dahlby nipping at his heels for the duration.

As it came down to the final stage, Wilson, who spent the last year trianing in Dubai, needed to make one shot of the two to take the gold, and was already assured of a medal.

Hotshot: Peter Wilson bagged Great Britain’s latest gold medal in the double trap shooting

Cool head: Wilson needed to make two shots in the final stage to keep his Swedish opponent in second place

So what did he do? He kept his composure and made both with aplomb, sealing Britain’s latest gold after Team GB won their first yesterday.

Scoring an impressive 188 out of 200 in the final, Wilson became the Olympic champion in his debut Games – no mean feat.

By his own admission, he owes his success to a rather unusual source: a Middle Eastern prince.

Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Hasher Al Maktoum is a member of Dubai’s ruling family and is an Olympic champion himself. The 48-year-old won gold in Athens 2004 and, upon his retirement after Beijing, agreed to coach Peter, the son of a Dorset farmer – for free.

It was a golden five minutes for Team GB today as sharp-shooter Wilson gunned his way to Olympic glory and Stott and Baillie triumphed in the two-man canoe slalom.

Stott and Baillie took gold with fellow Britons David Florence and Richard Hounslow winning silver at the Lee Valley White Water Centre.

Just minutes later at the Royal Artillery Barracks Wilson shot his way to gold in a dramatic double trap men’s finals.

And there is the guarantee of at least another silver this afternoon as Gemma Gibbons bids for victory in the women’s 78 kg judo final.

It is the first time Britain has won canoe gold and victory
was made all the better as the other British pair – David Florence and Richard
Hounslow – took silver.

The two pairs celebrated arm-in-arm on the course at the Lee
Valley white water centre as they soaked up the adulation of the raucous home
crowd.

How it stands: GB were catapulted to fifth in the medal standings

Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott took a gold just seconds after Wilson won in the trap shooting

Winners: The pair took gold in the men’s canoe double, putting GB fifth in the medal table

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In front a jubilant home crowd, Stott
and Baillie won gold in a time of 106.41 seconds, followed by Richard
Hounslow and David Florence who took 106.77 seconds to claim silver.

Pavol and Peter Hochschomer of Slovakia took bronze amid
extraordinary scenes.

The success lifts Britain to fifth in the overall medal
table, with four golds.

Stott told the BBC: ‘It’s weird, it could have been a disaster and now it’s a dream.

‘We did feel the pressure but for me I thought we needed something to go right today.

‘There is nothing taken for granted in this sport and getting to the final was amazing.’

Baillie added: ‘To win is mad and for these boys (Florence and Hounslow) to finish second…

‘The run we had, I was hoping it might be good enough for a medal but I didn’t expect that.’

A capacity crowd gave Wilson a standing ovation before he climbed into the first row of seats to greet his mother and tearful girlfriend Michelle.

As he was surrounded by photographers he simply said: ‘It’s awesome, fantastic.’

Article source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182678/London-2012-Olympics-Peter-Wilson-Etienne-Stott-Tim-Baillie-win-gold-Team-GB.html?ITO=1490

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