First Woman to set a British Record Title in Women’s Olympic Clay Trap Shooting (100% perfect score)
March 2013, Ling Shooting, Wellington, Somerset
b.1987, High Wycombe
Five times British champion, world and European champion and Commonwealth Games medallist, Abbey Ling is a sports shooter from Nynehead. In Olympic Trap clay shooting, Abbey became the first (and at 20, the youngest) woman to set a British record title of a 100% perfect score in the Women’s Olympic clay trap pigeon shooting. Abbey was also the first woman to win the British Ladies Championship three years in a row.