THE sport of clay target shooting started in Fiji in 2002 with the establishment of the Shooting Association of Fiji (SAF). Since its inception, SAF membership has grown to include both recreational and competitive clay target shooters.
Glenn Kable is one of the founding members and the most experienced ISFF ranked shooter to have represented Fiji in three Olympics ? Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012. The Rio Olympics will be Kable’s fourth, having won Fiji an Olympic quota at the Oceania Continental Championship held in Sydney last year.
Kable currently resides in Sydney and has access to Olympic standard shooting facilities, which Fiji lacks.
Fiji based shooters with the talent and determination to develop competitively must consider the cost of training abroad as Fiji does not have trench facilities and currently uses the Fiji military shooting range.
Kable’s 13th place in the 2008 Beijing Games is also Fiji’s best shooting Olympic performance. Kable has also represented Fiji at three Commonwealth Games and four Pacific Games. His tally of medals from these games stands at 11 gold, three silver and three bronze medals.
Kable has won a world championship, silver and bronze medals in two World Cup competitions and more recently gold and silver in the 2016 Oceania DTL competition.
He created history at the 2011 Noumea Pacific Games, by leading a young Fiji side to win all six gold medals ? a Pacific Games record that will be hard to equal.
Kable will be accompanied by section manager Henry Stephen.
Competition details:
Shooting will commence on August 6 and ends on August 14.
