Faulds seals silver under Woodward's watchful gaze

FORMER Olympic champion Richard Faulds grabbed double trap World Cup silver in Munich, but he's been ploughing a lone furrow for GB's shooters.

GB'S BIG GUN: Former Olympic champion Richard Faulds grabs World Cup silver in Munich (Getty Images)

A 26-strong British team has been sent to Munich, with British Olympic Association director of elite performance Sir Clive Woodward taking a leading coaching role, after a 76 per cent funding cut in January saw performance director John Leighton-Dyson leave his post.

Faulds, who Great Britain's last Olympic shooting medal at Sydney 2000, clinched silver with 187 points in the final - good enough to tie with Qatar's Rashid Al-Athba - before the Brit edged the shoot-off 2-1.

But the 32-year-old is the only Brit to reach any final in Munich with ex-Commonwealth champion Charlotte Kerwood finishing tenth and just missing out on the shotgun trap final.

Other than that the best Great Britain have been able to muster is a 17th-place finish from Georgina Geike in the 25m pistol event.

Mick Gault is England's most successful male Commonwealth Games athlete, courtesy of his 15 medals, but he could only manage 20th in the 50m pistol with 559 points.

And Beijing Olympian Jonathan Hammond struggled his way into 87th in the 10m air rifle, with team-mate Kenneth Parr only able to reach 67th.

In the women's 10m air rifle event, 18-year-old Sheree Cox finished 42nd with 394 points.