David Phelps works full-time for a well-known supermarket chain

David Phelps will lead Wales' shooting team in Delhi as the rifleman bids to defend his Commonwealth Games crown.

The 33-year-old shop worker, who won prone gold at the 2006 Melbourne Games, is part of a 19-strong squad that has a wealth of Commonwealth experience.

Johanne Brekke will star at her fourth Games and was rifle champion in 2002 in Manchester while she also won medals in both Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur.

Twins Jenny and Sian Corish, 22, will be Brekke's rifle team-mates in Delhi.

But Phelps, preparing for his third Commonwealths, is under pressure to perform in the Indian capital after winning two medals in Melbourne four years ago.

The Cardiff rifleman also won pairs bronze and will aim to retain his Commonwealth title in October.

Games debutant Jamie Drummer, the 2008 Commonwealth Shooting federation champion, and John Croydon, set for his third Commonwealth appearance, will join Phelps in the rifle ranks as 31-year-old Croydon hopes to go one better from his fourth-placed finish in Melbourne 2006.

Great Britain international Mike Wixey, a star of two Commonwealth Games, won team bronze in Manchester 2002 and is joined by 2009 British number one and 2010 Commonwealth champion Malcolm Allen, who has appeared in three Commonwealths, in the shotgun team.

Johanne Brekke won gold at the 2002 Commonwealths in Manchester

Both Commonwealth veterans will compete alongside Welsh shotgun rookies Rhys Price and Scott Morgan as the 20-year-olds are highly-rated promising youngsters.

Steve Pengelly is set to star at a record-breaking fifth Commonwealth Games as the 51-year-old civil servant teams up with fellow pistol expert Alan Green.

Green, winner of a 2010 Commonwealth Shooting Federation medal in Delhi, who now lives in Switzerland to practice due to the firearms ban in the United Kingdom.

Full-bore rifle shooters Gareth Morris and Robert Oxford have already enjoyed success in Delhi this year as the Welsh pair won three out of four gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championships.

Commonwealth debutant Helen Warnes, the Great Britain international, will join the Corish sisters and Brekke in the women's rifle teams.

Cheryl Gizzi will make her Games bow aged 59 but the keen gardener and Cyprus Grand Prix winner has shot competitively for 25 years.

Gizzi will join fellow debutant Jacquelyn Lewis in the women's shotgun teams while pistol partners Rachel Gravell and Nicola Wilson, the Welsh record holder and 2008 Commonwealth Shooting Federation champion, will also make their first Commonwealth appearance.

Welsh shooting team manager John Dallimore said: "I am delighted that Wales is sending such a strong team and I am positive that all will work hard to fulfil their potential.

"The balance of age, experience and youth in the team is brilliant. I'm hopeful of a happy and successful games."

Team Wales' Commonwealth Games shooting team:

Name: Johanne Brekke
Event: Rifle
Date of birth: 11 August, 1976
From: Bridgend
Event: Women's prone rifle, individual & pairs
Achievements: 2002 Commonwealth gold and 2010 Commonwealth Shooting Federation gold

Name: Jennifer Corish
Event: Rifle
Date of birth: 25 June, 1987
From: Carrog, near Llangollen
Event: Women's 3x20 full bore
Achievements: Won pairs silver and bronze at the 2010 Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championship

Name: Sian Corish
Event: Rifle
Date of birth: 25 June, 1987
From: Carrog, near Llangollen
Event: Women's 3x20 full bore
Achievements: British record holder and won pairs bronze at the 2010 Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championship

Name: Helen Warnes
Event: Rifle
Date of birth: 27 April, 1990
From: Cwmbran
Event: Women's 3x20 full bore (individual & pairs), women's prone rifle
Achievements: Pairs gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championship

Name: Cheryl Gizzi
Event: Shotgun
Date of birth: 1 November, 1950
From: Colwyn Bay
Event: Women's Olympic trap shotgun
Achievements: Won 2010 Cyprus Grand Prix

Name: Jacquelyn Lewis
Event: Shotgun
Date of birth: 1 December, 1970
Event: Women's Olympic trap shotgun
From: Hereford

Name: Rachel Gravell
Event: Pistol
Date of birth: 20 June, 1987
From: Carmarthen
Event: Women's air pistol
Achievements: 2007 British Junior champion

Name: Nicola Wilson
Event: Pistol
Date of birth: 22 September, 1979
From: Swansea
Event: Women's air pistol
Achievements: Welsh record-holder and 2008 Commonwealth Shooting Federation champion

Name: Malcolm Allen
Event: Shotgun
Date of birth: 13 October, 1961
From: Abercarn
Event: Men's Olympic skeet shotgun
Achievements: The 2010 Commonwealth champion has been Welsh number one since 2001 and is set to compete in his fourth Commonwealth Games

Name: Rhys Price
Event: Shotgun
Date of birth: 17 October, 1989
From: Usk
Event: Men's Olympic skeet shotgun
Achievements: Third at Malta Grand Prix

Name: Mike Wixey
Event: Shotgun
Date of birth: 4 June, 1971
From: Abergavenny
Event: Men's Olympic trap shotgun
Achievements: 2002 Commonwealth Games bronze

Name: Scott Morgan
Event: Shotgun
Date of birth: 4 June, 1990
From: Blackwood
Event: Men's Olympic trap shotgun
Achievements: European junior team gold

Name: David Phelps
Event: Rifle
Date of birth: 10 April, 1977
From: Cardiff
Event: Men's prone rifle
Achievements: 2006 Commonwealth Games prone champion and pairs bronze

Name: Jamie Drummer
Event: Rifle
Date of birth: 17 May, 1967
From: Bangor
Event: Men's prone rifle
Achievements: 2008 Commonwealth Shooting Federation gold and 2009 Welsh champion

Name: John Croydon
Event: Rifle
Date of birth: 28 July, 1979
From: Oswestry
Event: Men's 3x40 full bore
Achievements: Fourth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

Name: Steve Pengelly
Event: Pistol
Date of birth: 6 December, 1958
From: Oxford
Event: Men's standard pistol, centre fire pistol & rapid fire pistol
Achievements: The 2010 Games will be his fifth Commonwealths

Name: Alan Green
Event: Pistol
Date of birth: 4 December, 1965
From: Bournemouth
Event: Men's standard pistol, centre fire pistol & rapid fire pistol
Achievements: 2005 and 2010 Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championship medallist

Name: Robert Oxford
Event: Fullbore Rifle
Date of birth: 16 July, 1969
From: Camberley
Event: Full bore rifle
Achievements: 2005 and 2010 Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championship medallist

Name: Gareth Morris
Event: Fullbore Rifle
Date of birth: 4 December, 1975
From: Stanstead
Event: Full bore rifle (individual and pairs)
Achievements: Won three of four golds at the 2010 Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championships

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