
Not only did we win gold medal, we also set two Olympic records in the
Men's Double Trap competition. The credit for “we” really goes to
Glenn Eller. The final round of competition Eller dusted 190 targets, setting an Olympic record and taking the gold.
Francesco D' Aniello of Italy won silver with 187 targets, and
Hu Binyuan of China captured bronze with 184 targets.
In
Women's Trap,
Corey Cogdell won bronze with Finland's
Satu Makela-Nummela taking gold with an overall score of 91 targets, and
Zuzana Stefecekova of Slovakia placing silver with 89 targets.
David Kostelecky of the Czech Republic claimed gold in the
Men's Trap with
Giovanni Pellielo of Italy taking the silver and
Alexey Alipov of Russia winning the bronze.
Italy's
Chiara Cainero won the gold in
Women's Skeet besting
Kim Rhode of the US, who won silver, and German
Christine Brinker cleaned up with bronze.
Vincent Hancock took gold in
Men's Skeet after a shoot-off with
Tore Brovold of Norway.
Anthony Terras of France took the bronze medal.
For complete results go to the official
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games website.
Comments
This is great news. I just wish that the networks would televise the shooting sports more. Unfortunately they don't, but I'm glad to see one of our American shooters taking the gold.
Posted by: Arthur | August 18, 2008 07:36 AM