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You are here: Home / Competition / Gong and Farmer Secure Quotas at World Shooting Para Sport Championships

Gong and Farmer Secure Quotas at World Shooting Para Sport Championships

October 15, 2019 By Tom McHale

Xiao Gong on the opening day of the World Shooting Para Sport Championships
Xiao Gong on the opening day of the World Shooting Para Sport ChampionshipsINTERNATIONAL PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE: Sydney 2019 World Shooting Para Sport Championships. October 12, 2019. Sydney, Sydney International Shooting Centre, NSW, Australia. Photo: Narelle Spangher; International Paralympic Committee

Xiao Gong (Malibu, Calif.) and Taylor Farmer (Castalia, Ohio) both secured Paralympic Games quota slots for the United States during the opening day of the 2019 World Shooting Para Sport Championships in Sydney, Australia.

Xiao, who works with In Kim and is a product of the Bridge Junior Shooting Club, fired an impressive 564 in the mixed 25-meter sport pistol, which placed him eighth after qualification and advanced him into the final top eight. Making his debut in an international final, Xiao found himself in a field that included the reigning world and Paralympic champion Huang Xing of China. He started the final strong with a three-hit series but would eventually be eliminated in eighth place. Most importantly, Xiao earned the U.S. its first pistol quota slot for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Also competing for Team USA in the mixed 25m sport pistol were Mike Tagliapietra (Fond du Lac, Wis.) who shot a qualifying score of 552 for 27th place, Marco De La Rosa (Chicago, Ill.) who finished 30th with a score of 550, and Tricia Downing (Denver, Colo.) who shot 543 for 39th place.

Ukraine’s Oleksii Denysiuk captured the gold medal in the mixed 25m sport pistol competition, with Serbia’s Zivko Papaz winning the silver and Xing taking home the bronze.

Farmer led three American athletes in the mixed air rifle prone competition. She was the high U.S. finisher in 19th place with a total of 630.1. Her performance secured a female quota spot for the U.S. for the 2020 Paralympic Games, bringing the total quota count for this Paralympic cycle to three for Team USA.

Kevin Nguyen (Columbus, Ga.) shot a 626.0 to place 52nd and Len Esparza (Cupertino, Calif.) was 61st with a total score of 622.0. Great Britain’s Matt Skelhon won the gold medal ahead of Australia’s Anton Zappelli and China’s Yan Yaping.

Competition at the World Shooting Para Sport Championships in Sydney continues Sunday with the mixed standing 10m air rifle featuring Americans McKenna Dahl (Arlington, Wash.) and Jazmin Almlie (Houston, Texas).

Live coverage and replays can be found at https://www.paralympic.org/sydney-2019.

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