U.S. Shooters Earn Seven Medals At Shotgun World Cup In Cyprus

Austen Smith competes within the skeet girls’s qualification through the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020 on July 26, 2021 in Asaka, Saitama, Japan.

U.S. shotgun shooters are off to an ideal begin of their world cup season because the staff earned seven medals on the first shotgun stage of 2022 in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Crew USA was particularly sturdy within the staff occasions, bringing dwelling silver medals in girls’s staff lure, males’s and girls’s staff skeet and silver and bronze medals in combined staff skeet. In particular person occasions, Rachel Tozier gained bronze in girls’s lure and Austen Smith gained bronze in girls’s skeet. The seven complete medals have been probably the most of every other nation.

Beginning off the medal haul for the U.S. was Tozier, a two-time silver medalist on the Pan American Video games. She superior to the medal match and completed with a complete of 19, behind Silvana Stanco of Italy with 28 and winner Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova with 31. Tozier then joined Aeriel Skinner and Ida Brown for the ladies’s lure staff occasion. They superior to the gold-medal sport earlier than falling to Australia 6-4.  

Smith, who made her Olympic debut final summer season in Tokyo, picked up the third world cup medal of her profession along with her bronze-medal efficiency. Smith additionally has gold and bronze medals gained on final 12 months’s world cup circuit. Smith would then be a part of up with Phillip Jungman within the combined staff occasion and choose up one other medal, a bronze. 4-time world champion Caitlin Connor teamed with Adam McBee to win a silver medal, falling within the gold-medal match to Italy.

The final day of the competitors was a twin medal day for the U.S. as each the boys’s and girls’s skeet groups made the gold-medal match. The ladies’s staff of Smith, Connor and Dania Jo Vizzi fell to Italy, 7-3, whereas the boys’s staff of Jungman, McBee and Hayden Stewart misplaced 6-4, additionally to the Italians. Italy’s three gold medals have been probably the most within the competitors.

U.S. shotgun shooters will likely be in motion once more beginning March 27-April 7 in Lima, Peru.