The competition, which took place in Sydney last week, saw 118 athletes from 23 countries battle it out at the city's International Shooting Centre and having already secured four places at the 2012 Paralympics through World Cup events earlier this year, Britain achieved their goal of taking the fifth spot thanks to a superb performance from Paralympian James Bevis.

Bevis took gold medal in the R5 10-metre air rifle prone SH2 to officially claim the London 2012 fifth quota place for Britain by shooting a fantastic 106.1 in the final.

Silver went to Ji-Seok Lee of Korea with scores of 600 and 105.2 and bronze to Juyoung Kang, also of Korea, with 600 and 104.9.

Bevis then continued his good form as he partnered with Ryan Cockbill and Georgina Callingham to take second place in the team behind Korea, while hosts Australia won bronze.

The same British trio also won bronze in the R4 10m air rifle standing mixed SH2 finishing third behind Korea and Australia.

There was also a great performance in Sydney from Nathan Milgate in Australia as he picked two bronze medals for Britain.

The first came as Milgate finished third in the R1 10m air rifle standing men SH1 with a total score of 689.4 behind Jinho Park of Korea and Franc Pinter of Slovenia respectively.

He then took the third podium place in the R6 50m rifle prone mixed SH1 with a score of 589 and 100.3 to finish behind Korea's gold medallist Jae Yong Sim and Australia's silver medallist Ashley Adams.

The team's final medal was a bronze for Paralympian Deanna Coates in the R2 10m air rifle standing women SH1.

She shot 390 and then 99.1 to finish third behind Natalie Smith of Australia and Yunri Lee of Korea who won gold and silver respectively.

"The world's best team – Korea – were present and dominant in this World Cup so the standard set was very high," said Britain's team manager and head coach Pasan Kularatne.

"The British team however performed extremely well and it was great that James Bevis has secured Britain the final quota for GB winning gold by beating the Korean shooters with a perfect score, equalling the world record.

"I am really pleased with the overall performances of the GB Team."

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