Crackshot Daniel heads for World Cup

Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force Lance Corporal Roger Daniel has recently returned from a Caribbean shooting competition in Martinique where he again made his mark.

On the French island principality, Daniel won gold and silver medals in the Air Pistol and Free Pistol events competing against the Caribbean’s best shooters. He will leave this week along with Claxton Bay taxi-driver and CAC double gold medallist in the rifle division, Taran Deosaran, to compete in the World Cup in Atlanta, USA. Already ranked among the military’s best shooters, Daniel has been working the circuit in preparation for the Olympic Games to be held in Athens, Greece next year.

There he will come up against the defending Olympic, European and North  American champions. Apart from being the only Trinidadian to qualify for the Olympics so far, the young Lance Corporal has also received the President’s Medal for his outstanding performance in the recent Military Shoot where he smashed several records. Daniel’s coach, Brent Thomas, is confident of the soldier’s readiness for the upcoming Olympic Games and stated that after hard training and being 95 percent fit, the World Cup will be a good opportunity to determine his present world ranking ahead of the event.