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Championship of the Americas


Three 2016 Olympic Quotas for USA Shooting At Championship of the Americas


Two-time Olympic gold


medalist Vincent Hancock (Eatonton, Georgia) Men’s Skeet win brought the USA Shooting Team’s quota haul to three total during an im- portant continental shooting event at the 11th showing of the Championship of the Americas in Guadalajara, Mexico.


Hancock was a quota


earner just as Will Brown (Twin Falls, Idaho) and- Dempster


Christenson


(Sioux Falls, South Dakota) were in 10m Air Pistol and 10m Air Rifl e. The three quotas earned were the biggest highlights for the 63-member squad that com- peted for USA Shooting in an event that included 426 athletes competing from 24 nations. In total, the team earned 19 individual medals and earned team gold in 11 of the 15 events. Wins in Women’s Trap


by Ashley Carroll (Solvang, California) and in Women’s Skeet by Amber English (Colorado Springs, Colorado) also highlighted the week- long event. Unfortunately, Olympic quotas weren’t available for the taking in those two events. Placement sweeps in


Men’s Air Rifl e and Wom- en’s Skeet also were sig- nifi cant accomplishments. Christenson led the way in Air Rifl e followed by Ryan Anderson (Wasilla, Alaska)


in second and Connor Da- vis (Shelbyville, Kentucky), third. English topped Haley Dunn (Eddyville, Iowa) in the gold-medal fi nal while Brandy Drozd (Bryan, Texas) scored a 15-10 win in the bronze-medal fi nal to ensure a placement sweep in that event too. Still, the podiums in those two events didn’t ac- curately refl ect that success given by-laws written into the format of the Championship of the Americas stipulating no one country can earn all three medals, even if the scores refl ect differently. Other individual stand-


outs included trap shooter Jake Wallace (Castaic, California, pictured) who equaled the world record- qualifying score with a per- fect performance. The score was the fi rst 125/125 re- corded in international com- petition in 16 years when Lance Bade equaled that mark during the 1998 World Championships in Barce- lona, Spain. Despite quali- fying perfection, Wallace would have to settle for sil- ver, losing in the gold-medal fi nal to Eduardo Lorenzo of the Dominican Republic. Junior World Pistol Cham-


pion Alex Chichkov (Temple Terrace, Florida) continued his great season with a bronze medal during his fi rst time competing in an inter- national Open event. Olym- pian Amanda Furrer (Spo-


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kane, Washington) certainly would have liked a quota, but getting a bronze medal in the Women’s Three-Posi- tion Rifl e event was special given that she had to borrow teammate Michael Liuzza’s rifl e after discovering her gun had broken in two dur- ing the fl ight to Mexico. Looking to obtain a


Minimum Qualifying Score (MQS) that helps make them Olympic eligible were 23 U.S. athletes with sev- eral notable performances despite not being eligible for medals during the event.


CAT is the second of 11


possible competitions in which Olympic quotas are available but was the fi nal chance in 2014, before nine other opportunities to follow in a busy 2015.


Jake Wallace equaled the World Record Qualifying score with a perfect 125/125 performance. Wallace fi nished with a silver medal, losing in the gold-medal match to Eduardo Lorenzo of the Dominican Republic.


Photo by: Sgt. Raymond Piper/USAMU


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