World Cup: Almaty and Beijing
Rhode Back On Top in Almaty; Richmond Snags Second Silver of 2014
Cups, Richmond’s game seems to be rounding into form that lead him to a 2012 World title and eight World Cup medals prior to the Lon- don 2012 Olympic Games. All 15 USA Shooting Team
Athlete Jake Wallace Ryan Hadden Seth Inman
It seems nothing can
shake the confi dence of fi ve-time Olympic medalist Kim Rhode (pictured center) these days. As a result, she’s opened her 2014 shooting campaign with back-to-back International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) World Cup medals af- ter winning a gold medal in
Women’s Skeet at the World Cup stage in Almaty, Ka- zakhstan. Josh Richmond (U.S. Army
Marksmanship Unit/Hills- grove, Pennsylvania) also scored his second Double Trap medal of the season by winning silver in Kazakh- stan. With back-to-back medals in consecutive World
Josh Richmond Ian Rupert Jeff Holguin
Vincent Hancock Dustin Perry
Frank Thompson Ashley Carroll
Janessa Beaman Rachael Heiden Kim Rhode
Brandy Drozd Haley Dunn
members competing in Al- maty earned their selection based upon results of the last two Selection Match events.
Place Event 26 33 50 2 9
17 12 22 25 12 17 27 1 7
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Final World Cup of the Year Wraps in Beijing Athlete
Twelve Shotgun athletes
made their way to the fi - nal International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Beijing where U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit Soldier Hayden Stewart (Columbia, Tennessee) was the top U.S. fi nisher in his fi rst World Cup, fi nishing in fi fth place in Men’s Skeet. Multi-time
National
Championship medalist Caitlin Connor (Winnfi eld,
Louisiana) also earned a spot in the Women’s Skeet Final where she fi nished in sixth place. Derek Haldeman (US- AMU/Sunbury, Ohio) and Ian Rupert (Muncy, Pennsylva- nia) narrowly missed out on spots in the Finals with their seventh- and eighth-place fi nishes in Men’s Double Trap.
Brian Burrows
Anthony Matarese Derek Haldeman Ian Rupert Dale Royer
Hayden Stewart Nick Boerboon Miranda Wilder Susan Sledge Caitlin Connor Amber English Dania Vizzi
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16 14 18 6 8
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Men’s Trap Men’s Double Trap Men’s Skeet Women’s Trap Women’s Skeet
Place Event 13 35 7 8
Men’s Trap Men’s Double Trap Men’s Skeet Women’s Trap Women’s Skeet
Photo by: Marco Dalla Dea/ISSF
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