Grand Aggregate

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GRAND AGGREGATE

Open to all comers. To be awarded to the competitor whose scores in the Ex-Servicemen’s, the Coca-Cola, the Star, the Bisset, the O’Toole, the Castella, and the Le Maître make up the highest aggregate score. For the concurrent Class B competition see the Bluebird (Grand Aggregate B).

First Prize: The Bruce Parker Trophy, a hallmarked siler cup presented by three-time winner Bruce Parker in 2020 (originally the replacement Bucktrout trophy first awarded in 1958) replacing the Bert Young Memorial Trophy (an etched glass tankard).

Special Prize: The Australia Cup, a silver cup presented in 1937 by the Australian Rifle Team and first awarded in 1952, awarded to the highest-placing competitor eligible to shoot for Guernsey in the Kolapore (see Australia).

A tie for the first and special prizes will be shot off on the spot.

2025	598.84v	GM Bohn^E
2024	546.65v	ASO Stewart
2023	588.63v	JRL Burch^E
2022	604.92v	S Hodge^E
2021	593.65v	DE Nuthall^E (2)
2020	582.51v	PM Jory (5)
2019	590.70v	RA Benest^J (2)
2018	599.67v	PM Jory (4)
2017	595.72v	DE Nuthall^E
2016	582.53v	OM Hudson
2015	597.80v	PM Jory (3)
2014	599.77v	NJ Branch (4)
2013	591.75v	NJ Branch (3)
2012	599.76v	NJ Branch (2)
2011	—	DP Calvert^I
2010	587.62v	RJ Waters
2009	594.63v	GH Harris^J (2)
2008	597.64v	NJ Branch
2007	604.96v	RA Benest^J
2006	599.70v	GH Harris^J
2005	600.81v	PM Jory (2)
2004	—	CB Cotillard^J
2003	—	PM Jory
2002	596.76v	DR Le Quesne^J (4)
2001	595.85v	DR Le Quesne^J (3)
2000	594.71v	AM Jory (2)
1999	600.87v	PM Patel^E
1998	594.83v	DR Le Quesne^J (2)
1997	603.98v	DR Le Quesne^J
1996	452.76v	IJ Donaldson (2)
1995	—	CC Mallett^J (3)
1994	—	AM Jory
1993	—	RF Perkins (3)
1992	—	IJ Donaldson
1991	—	RF Perkins (2)
1990	—	DJ Le Cheminant^J
1989	—	JG Bennett^E
1988	—	CC Mallett^J (2)
1987	—	CC Mallett^J
1986	—	FE McDermott^A
1985	—	CC Mallett Jnr^J (5)
1984	—	CC Mallett Jnr^J (4)
1983	—	RF Perkins
1982	—	GF Arnold^E (2)
1981	—	CC Mallett Jnr^J (3)
1980	—	GF Arnold^E
1979	—	JR Le Seelleur^J
1978	—	GR Martin
1977	—	RH Ashplant (2)
1976	—	CC Mallett Jnr^J (2)
1975	—	CC Mallett Jnr^J
1974	—	RH Ashplant
1973	—	CMY Trotter
1972	—	TS Henry (4)
1971	—	AE Le Page (2)
1970	—	TS Henry (3)
1969	—	AE Le Page
1968	636	M Brouard
1967	630	TS Henry (2)
1966	—	BRW Parker (3)
1965	—	BRW Parker (2)
1964	—	BRW Parker
1963	—	FW Le Maître
1962	—	GT Martel (4)
1961	—	JL Ross
1960	—	D Bisset (2)
1959	—	K Cunningham
1958	—	LO Hill
1957	—	GT Martel (3)
1956	—	GT Martel (2)
1955	—	GT Martel
1954	—	EE Despointes
1953	—	D Bisset
1952	—	TS Henry

The Grand Aggregate has been contested since 1952 and is awarded for the highest aggregate score over the annual summer prize meeting. It is open to marksmen from any nation.

As of 2024, the Grand Aggregate has been contested seventy-three times and has been won by thirty-eight different marksmen. Cliff Mallett Jnr and Peter Jory are tied for the most wins (5), while Tommy Henry holds the record for the longest time between his first win at the inaugural 1952 event, and his last in 1972, totalling 20 years.

The first non-local to win the Grand Aggregate was Jersey’s Cliff Mallett Jnr, in 1975. In total, Guernsey has the most wins (44), followed by Jersey (19), England (8), Australia (1), and Ireland (1).

Ollie Hudson is the youngest winner of the Grand Aggregate, being aged seventeen when he won the competition in 2016, while Alexander Stewart is the most recent first-time winner of the Grand Aggregate in 2024.

Three marksmen have won the Grand Aggregate in three consecutive years, namely, Geoff Martel (from 1955 to 1957), Bruce Parker (from 1964 to 1966), and Nick Branch (from 2012 to 2014).

Jersey’s Richard Benest holds the record score, dropping just one point en route to winning the 2007 Grand Aggregate to finish with a final aggregate score of 604.96v ex 605.121v, although England’s (and the GBU19’s) Sophie Hodge scored 604.92v on more modern, smaller target faces in 2022.