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US Shooters Win Gold, Silver and Bronze

2008 Bejing OlympicsNot 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.

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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.

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