Junior World Cup: Suhl
Shotgun Success the Story of USA Shooting Team at ISSF Junior Cup
Three individual medal-
ists and fi ve team medals wrapped an exciting week of competition for the USA Shooting Team at the inau- gural International Shoot- ing Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior Cup, bolstered by the strength of its shotgun squad.
in Suhl, Germany, featured 25 American athletes and four coaches. The shotgun team was led by 2013 USA Shooting Coach of the Year Mike Simpson. Assistant National Team Pistol coach In Kim lead the Pistol squad while 1992 Olympic gold medalist and Air Force head
while Russia earned seven medals as well. Individual medal winners
for USA Shooting included gold medalists Ian Ru- pert (Double Trap / Muncy, Pennsylvania) and Sydney Carson (Skeet / North Lib- erty, Indiana) as well as bronze medalist Amber
Houston tied for the high qualifying score of 68 before slipping in the semifi nals. Vizzi would compete for the bronze medal against Rus- sia’s Alina Fazylzyanova but would have to settle for fourth after losing the shoot- off after the two tied with nine targets apiece. Phillip
Jungman
(Caldwell, Texas) led the way for the men’s skeet team fi n-
Ian Rupert (center) won gold in Double Trap at the ISSF Junior Cup in Suhl, Germany.
Photo by Michael Eissert In 2013, the ISSF an-
nounced the inauguration of ISSF Junior Cups, a new Championship series fea- turing competitions for ju- nior athletes in Olympic and Youth Olympic events. Open to all junior competitors age 20 or younger during the competition year, the fi rst all-discipline event (rifl e, pis- tol and shotgun) contested
coach Launi Meili oversaw the Rifl e team. The double-barreled
target busters for the USA Shooting Team earned sev- en medals overall including three gold, two silver and two bronze as well as 11 top- seven performances. Italy once again showed its prow- ess in the discipline earning a match-high 12 medals
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Culwell (Trap / Rose Bud, Arkansas). Team medals in shotgun included Women’s Skeet (gold), Men’s Skeet and Double Trap (silver) and Women’s Trap (bronze). Carson joined teammates
Dania Vizzi (Odessa, Flor- ida) and Hannah Houston (Columbia, Tennessee) in winning the Women’s Skeet Team gold medal. Vizzi and
ishing just outside podium position with a fourth-place fi nish. Jungman’s qualifying score of 121 tied him at the top with two other competi- tors and would help lead his team that included Chris- tian Elliott (Greenwood, In- diana) and Luis “Taz” Gloria (Tucson, Arizona) to a silver medal. Rupert also joined his
junior teammates of Dale Royer (Jackson, Mont.) and Christian Wilkoski (Center- burg, Ohio) to earn the team silver medal behind Italy while Russia fi nished third. Royer was on the verge of earning his fi rst internation- al fi nal but was defeated in a shoot-off against the two Russian competitors Rupert
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