ISSF World Cup: Munich
Bavarian Good Time for USA Shooting Team at Munich World Cup
Five-time Olympic med-
alist Kim Rhode (El Monte, California) made shoot- ing history once again and this time she brought along teammates Brandy Drozd (Bryan, Texas) and Haley Dunn (Eddyville, Iowa). The three American Women’s Skeet competitors swept the podium at the International Shooting Sport Federation
as well. Dustin Perry (Love- lady, Texas) also scored a near medal fi nish with his fourth-place result in Men’s Skeet.
The World Cup podium
sweep was just the seventh all-time within the shotgun discipline dating back to 1986. For Rhode and Dunn, history did in fact repeat it- self as they were a part of
coach Todd Graves, Edward McCamish and Bill Roy ac- complished the feat back in 1993 in Los Angeles. This is the fi rst U.S. medal sweep recorded on an international range. The 34-year-old Rhode
closed the semifi nal tied with her 20-year-old team- mate Drozd with 15 hits out of 16 targets. The follow-
4 when Drozd missed her fi rst two targets and Rhode shattered them both, win- ning the gold with a score of 16+6 to Drozd’s 16+4 hits. Drozd this time had secured the second World Cup medal of her young career. The third U.S. fi nalist,
29-year-old four-time World Cup medalist Dunn, joined the All-American podium beating Russia’s Albina Sha- kirova (27) by 15 to 11 hits
(Left to right) Brandy Drozd, Kim Rhode and Haley Dunn sweep the Women’s Skeet podium at the World Cup in Munich, Germany.
Photo by Marco Dalla Dea/ISSF
in the bronze-medal match. For Dunn, it was a sweet re- turn to the World Cup medal stand having not earned a spot there since winning in Lonato, Italy, in 2010. Tori Burch (Kerrville, Tex-
(ISSF) World Cup event in Munich, Germany, to high- light a seven-medal perfor- mance for the USA Shooting Team.
The USA Shooting Team
for Shotgun enjoyed one of its most successful World Cup events in history at the largest World Cup on re- cord, earning seven medals including double podium placements in Women’s Trap and Men’s Double Trap
the last podium sweep on re- cord when they teamed with Connie Smotek for a similar performance in 2008 on the familiar range of Kerrville, Texas. Italy and the U.S. are the only teams to have ever claimed all three podium spots during a World Cup with Italy doing it in 1989 in Men’s Trap, 1998 in Men’s Skeet and 1999 in Wom- en’s Trap. The U.S. Men’s Skeet Team of current head
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ing gold-medal match did not separate them, as both Rhode and Drozd cleared the round hitting all 16 clays. Just like in Tucson at the season’s fi rst World Cup of the season when a shoot- off would decide the bronze medal, the two teammates would have to settle their differences with a target shoot-off once again, this time for gold.
The decisive moment came on Station
as) and Janessa Beaman (Colorado Springs, Colora- do) kicked off the U.S. Team success with a 1-2 fi nish in Women’s Trap. That was fol- lowed by yet another strong performance by the Men’s Double Trap team in which Glenn Eller (USAMU/Hous- ton, Texas) and Jeff Holguin (USAMU/Yorba Linda, Cali- fornia) took home the silver and bronze medals. While all podium perfor- mances for the USA Shoot-
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