USA Taking pictures’s Olympic and Paralympic group made historical past after bringing dwelling a complete of six medals from the Paris 2024 Video games in Chateauroux, France, this summer season.
The Paris 2024 Olympic Video games happened first from July 26 to August 11, the place the USA Taking pictures group earned 5 medals and had a number of finals performances.
Sagen Maddalena, a Groveland, California, native, earned the primary U.S. medal in capturing on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games with a silver in girls’s 50m smallbore rifle. In an thrilling remaining, Maddalena, a sergeant within the U.S. Military Marksmanship Unit, defeated Qiongyue Zhang of China, who needed to accept the bronze medal. Maddalena additionally superior to the ultimate for girls’s 10m air rifle and completed fourth.
Vincent Hancock of Eatonton, Georgia, earned the second U.S. Olympic capturing medal and made Olympic historical past. He earned his fourth gold medal in males’s skeet, turning into the sixth Olympian ever to win 4 gold medals in the identical occasion, becoming a member of Al Oerter (USA, discus), Paul Elvstrom (Denmark, crusing one-person class), Carl Lewis (USA, lengthy soar), Michael Phelps (USA, 200m particular person medley) and Mijain Lopez (Cuba, Greco-Roman heavyweight wrestling). He’s the primary capturing Olympian to perform this feat. (Notice: Katie Ledecky achieved the identical feat later that day in 800m freestyle swimming, turning into the seventh.)
Conner Prince of Burleson, Texas, joined Hancock on the rostrum when he captured the silver medal in males’s skeet. Prince and Hancock’s double podium marks the primary time the U.S. has earned a couple of medal in males’s skeet on the Olympics. The was additionally the primary time a couple of U.S. athlete competed in an Olympic males’s skeet remaining.
Austen Smith of Keller, Texas, secured her first Olympic medal with a bronze in girls’s skeet. Smith shot an general qualification rating of 122/125. She tied Amber Rutter of Nice Britian in qualification, then gained a 14-point shoot-off to earn the primary bib within the remaining, occurring to finest Vanessa Hockova of Slovakia, who positioned fourth.
Subsequent, Smith and Hancock paired as much as safe the fifth and remaining medal for USA Taking pictures within the blended group skeet occasion. The duo earned silver, falling quick to Italy within the gold medal match. Smith and Hancock have been a favourite for a medal as they’re the 2023 world champions within the occasion. They make a dynamic group as Hancock is Smith’s coach. Hancock additionally coaches Prince alongside Smith on the Northlake Taking pictures Sports activities in Northlake, Texas, a facility that he co-owns.
Extra historical past was made in Paris when Katelyn Abeln certified for the ladies’s 25m sport pistol remaining. Hailing from Douglasville, Georgia, Abeln is the primary U.S. girl to ever qualify for an Olympic pistol remaining. She completed eighth general.
The Paralympic Video games happened in France from August 28 to September 8. Crew USA’s YanXiao Gong of Malibu, California, earned his first Paralympic medal and likewise made appearances in two capturing occasion finals.
Gong earned a silver medal within the P3 blended 25m pistol SH1 occasion after an thrilling remaining. He captured the primary Paralympic males’s medal for the U.S. since 2004 and the primary Paralympic pistol medal for the U.S. since 1984. Gong superior to the ultimate for P3 blended 25m pistol SH1 after putting fourth general within the qualification spherical. He bested Jungman Kim of Korea within the remaining, the latter ending up in third place. As well as, Gong certified for the P4 blended 50m pistol SH1 remaining the place he completed eighth general within the standings.
The U.S. Paris Olympic and Paralympic capturing groups had sturdy ties to the navy with 9 athletes who’re both at the moment serving or are veterans. They’re listed under.
- Sgt. Sagen Maddalena, U.S. Military Marksmanship Unit (Olympic)
- Sgt. Ivan Roe, U.S. Military Marksmanship Unit (Olympic)
- Employees Sgt. Will Hinton, U.S. Military Marksmanship Unit (Olympic)
- Employees Sgt. Rachel Tozier, U.S. Military Marksmanship Unit (Olympic)
- Vincent Hancock, U.S Military Veteran (Olympic)
- Keith Sanderson, U.S. Military and Marine Corps Veteran (Olympic)
- Sgt. 1st Class John Wayne Joss, U.S. Military World Class Athlete Program (Paralympic)
- Employees Sgt. Kevin Nguyen, U.S. Military Marksmanship Unit (Paralympic)
- Marco De La Rosa: Marine Corps Veteran (Paralympic)
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