The Campaign and the $500,000 endowment will focus on supporting the development pipeline through the LA 2028 Summer Olympics COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO: USA Shooting announces the Raise the Flag donation campaign to support the USA National Shooting Team goal of becoming the most dominating nation in the sport of Shooting by the LA 2028 Summer Olympics […]
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First Stage of U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Air Pistol Sees Mowrer and Lagan Take Leads
After Stage I of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in air pistol shooting, Olympian Nick Mowrer (Butte, Mont.) emerged with a 17-point lead in the men’s competition on Monday, while national champion Alexis Lagan (Boulder City, Nev.) has a slim lead in the women’s field. Mowrer, a 2012 Olympic Team member for free pistol, 2019 air pistol national champion […]
Part One of Air Pistol Olympic Trials Gets Underway Sunday in Colorado Springs
The second weekend of the USA Shooting Winter Airgun Championships and Olympic Trials Part 1 will feature competition for air pistol and para pistol. The event takes place Dec. 15-16 at the Colorado Springs Olympic & Paralympic Training Center. The two-day competition format will feature finals taking place at the conclusion of Monday’s qualification rounds. […]
Lucas Kozeniesky And Mary Tucker Lead The Field After First Stage Of U.S. Olympic Team Trials For Air Rifle
by Paul D. Bowker Olympian Lucas Kozeniesky (Colorado Springs, Colo.) who won a gold medal and locked down an Olympic quota spot at the Pan American Games, and junior women’s shooting star Mary Tucker (Sarasota, Fla.) emerged as the leaders Sunday after Stage I of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in air rifle shooting. Kozeniesky had a two-day total of […]
Colorado Springs Hosts Winter Air Gun Championships and Olympic Trials
Over the next two weekends, the Colorado Springs Olympic & Paralympic Training Center plays host to the USA Shooting Winter Airgun Championships and Olympic Trials Part 1. Air rifle and para rifle competition days are Dec. 7-8, with air pistol and para pistol competition Dec. 15-16. Registration for the air pistol competition is still open […]
Eurosport Hits Olympic Mark with International Shooting Sport Federation Partnership
Eurosport will offer the sport of shooting global exposure like never before in the lead up to Tokyo 2020 after agreeing a wide-ranging deal with the International Shooting Sport Federation (“ISSF”). Deal with Eurosport to give shooting sport consistent exposure in the lead up to Tokyo 2020 Eurosport to screen the biggest events on the […]
Gary Anderson A Semi-Finalist For Induction To Olympic Hall
CMP DIRECTOR EMERITUS AWAITS INTERNAL AND PUBLIC VOTE – OPEN UNTIL SEPTEMBER 3 By Steve Cooper, CMP Training, Education & Marketing Manager CAMP PERRY, OHIO – Gary Anderson, Director of Civilian Marksmanship-Emeritus, who has been a household name at the Civilian Marksmanship Program, and in much of the U.S. precision rifle shooting community since the […]
Ten Countries Win Medals, Seven Obtain Olympic Quotas in Lima
Ten countries – USA, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Brasil, Chile, Canada – have won medals in shooting sport at the 18th Panamerican Games that took place in Lima, Peru. The first seven have also obtained Quotas to the Tokyo-2020 Olympic Games. There were three events in the program of the last day of […]
Team USA Gets Weisz for Gold/Olympic Quota & Additional Miles in Women’s Air Rifle
(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – August 1, 2019) – PLEASE NOTE: Women’s Air Rifle Recap reprinted with permission as written by TeamUSA.org’s Kendra Hansey. Ali Weisz won not only a Pan American Games Lima 2019 gold medal, but also the final quota spot for the U.S. women’s 10-meter air rifle for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. […]
U.S. Pan American Games Team for Shooting Ready for Lima Limelight
(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – July 26, 2019) – Twenty-two athletes, including six-time Olympic medalist Kim Rhode, reigning Olympic gold medalist Ginny Thrasher and six other Olympians, have earned the opportunity to compete for Team USA at the 2019 Pan American Games. Athletes were determined based on results at the 2019 Spring Selection Matches for USA Shooting. […]