Under the new rules, athletes now shoot 20 shots instead of 10 in the final, but from the eighth shot onward the lowest scoring shooter is eliminated after every two shots until the medallists are decided.

Britain's squad of eight shooters, including London 2012 medallists Matt Skelhon (pictured top) and James Bevis and wheelchair basketballer turned shooter Ann Wild, returned from the event with individual silver and bronze medals and a team silver and team bronze.

Skelhon, the London 2012 silver medallist, led the charge, winning silver in the R3 10m air rifle prone mixed SH1 behind Russia's Tatiana Ryabchenko, with Veronika Vadovicova of Slovakia taking bronze.

Britain's second individual medal was won in the pistol shooting competitions where Wild won bronze in the P2 10m air pistol women in a competition won by Ukraine's Anastasia Skok, ahead of Turkey's Aysel Ozgan.

There was also two medals for Britain in the team competitions.

In the R4 10m air rifle standing mixed SH2 the team of Richard Davies, Adam Fontain and Rob McLeary took the silver, while Rob McLeary, James Bevis and Tim Jeffery took bronze in the R5 10m air rifle prone SH2.

Disability Target Shooting Great Britain (DTSGB) team manager and head coach, Pasan Kularatne, said: "This is the first World Cup of the new cycle.

"The new final rules are exiting and mean that now anything can happen in the finals."

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