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U.S. Athletes Ready for World Test at Mecca of the Shotgun World
By: Kevin Neuendorf Director of Media and Public Relations
To win a world champion-
ship is special no matter the place. But as a shotgun ath- lete, to do so in Italy, in the mecca of the shotgun world, is life altering. That glory is what 30 U.S. team athletes will be pursuing when the Internation- al Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championships get underway September 11 in Lonato, Italy. A 2005 World Champion-
ship title on this same range propelled Vincent Hancock (Eatonton, Georgia) to the greatness he’s found ever since having now won back- to-back Olympic titles in Skeet. He’s looking for a similar result this time around and nothing he’s done already in 2015 dis- courages the notion he’s the man to beat coming in. Hancock is just one of
three U.S. athletes to earn a world title on Italian soil, join- ing Terry Carlisle, who did so in
Women’s Skeet back in 1985, and Olympian Josh Richmond who was a Junior World Cham- pion in Double Trap the same year as Hancock. Joining Hancock are three
other Olympic veterans includ- ing fi ve-time Olympic medalist Kim Rhode (El Monte, Cali- fornia). The highly-decorated Olympian hasn’t been nearly as successful at World Cham- pionships, having earned a medal of each color in 12 ap- pearances. She’ll be joined on the squad by four-time Olym- pian and 2008 Olympic gold medalist Glenn Eller (Houston, Texas) and two-time Olympian and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Corey Cogdell-Unrein (Eagle River, Alaska). Eller will be looking to add to his collec- tion of four World Champion- ship medals while Cogdell-Un- rein will be seeking her fi rst in her sixth appearance.
Myles Walker Four of the 10 events hold-
ing the greatest intrigue due to their quota and Olympic selection implications include Men’s and Women’s Trap, Women’s Skeet and Men’s Double Trap. The U.S. still longs for an
Olympic quota in Men’s Trap and is hoping to avoid a sec- ond straight Olympic Games with no qualifi ers in that event. This World Championship is the fi nal opportunity to earn an Olympic country quota. Set for that pursuit is Jake Wallace (Castaic, California), Myles Walker (Elkhorn, Wis- consin) and Anthony Matarese (Pennsville, New Jersey). Women’s Trap has se-
Derek Haldeman, Photo by: ISSF
cured one of the two quotas available with Kayle Browning (Wooster, Arkansas) knocking on that door four times already this season. She was two tar- gets off the pace needed to earn a spot in the Finals in Ga-
bala. She was fourth in Aca- pulco, after losing in a shootoff to Cogdell-Unrein to enter the gold-medal match. Needing a win at the Pan American Games in Toronto in July, she’d fi nish second following anoth- er shootoff. At the Al Ain (UAE) World Cup she fi nished eighth, one target out of qualifying for Finals. Also a part of the solu- tion could be Kimberley Bow- ers (Lafayette, California), a bronze medalist at the 2015 Pan American Games. Both U.S. quotas have been
secured in Women’s Skeet, but there’s a race to nab au- tomatic selection among the three U.S. participants that will be compelling as the biggest competition will be against themselves and not the other countries. Morgan Craft (Muncy Valley, Pennsyl- vania), a Junior World Cham- pionship bronze medalist in 2011, reached the 30-point
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