A WELLINGTON School teacher has been selected to represent GB in a World Championship contest.

Matthew Charlton, who teaches Modern Foreign Languages, has been selected for the Great Britain Rifle Team for the World Long Range Championship in New Zealand in 2019. This will be Matthew’s 11th tour and third World Championship with the Great Britain team, with whom he won gold medals in Ottawa in 2007 and Brisbane in 2011.

The team World Championship match, the “Palma Match”, was first contested in 1867 in the USA and now features teams of 16 firers and five wind readers and tacticians, who compete at distances of 800, 900 and 1000 yards, using .308 rifles with iron sights. Next year’s competition will be held at Trentham Ranges, near Wellington in New Zealand.