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Denzil Grose, 20, crowned skeet world champion

Lisa YoungCornwall
News imageISSF Denzil Grose is smiling at the camera and raising his right hand in a victorious fist. He is wearing red sunglasses and a GB team waistcoat which features a Union Jack. He has dark hair and a beard. Behind is part of the shooting range.ISSF
Denzil Grose won gold and set a new world record at the same time

A 20-year-old man from Cornwall has become the men's junior skeet world champion after claiming gold in Cairo, Egypt.

Denzil Grose from St Austell fended off Italy's Marco Coco who took silver and Finland's Lassi Kauppinen took bronze on Wednesday.

In winning his first world cup medal, Grose also set a new junior world record.

He is part of the British Shooting Olympic fast track programme and said after he had performed "the best I ever have" in Cairo, he had his sights on the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028.

News imageISSF Grose is shooting at a target. He is wearing red sunglasses, the GB team uniform which features a Union Jack flag design and a cap which is on backwards. He is holding a long barrelled gun and there is smoke coming from the barrel.ISSF
Denzil Grose said he could not believe his achievements were real

Grose said he had started shooting at the age of seven. He said: "I started, I got better at it and I won a couple of charity events in Cornwall.

"Then I got selected for the British Shooting pathway, a programme to the GB team.

"A few years after that I was selected for the GB team and progressed from there and now I'm full time in the GB team."

He said the championships in Cairo had been "the world's best versus the world's best".

"We never expected it to go this far when I started and it still doesn't feel real, to be honest," the 20-year-old reflected.

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