Olympian Will Hinton Secures First Particular person Gold in Males’s Entice Victory at Lima ISSF World Cup
By Brittany Nelson, USAS Public Relations & Communications Supervisor
COLO SPRGS, CO (April 21, 2025) –Will Hinton, a Paris 2024 Olympian, topped the rostrum after a victorious last in Males’s Entice on the 2025 Worldwide Taking pictures Sports activities Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Lima, Peru, April 20, marking his first particular person worldwide gold medal.
“I’m ecstatic,” stated Hinton, a Workers Sgt. within the U.S. Military Marksmanship Unit (USAMU). “I’m fairly excited, not going to lie.”
Hinton, now a seven-time ISSF World Cup medalist, earned his first particular person worldwide medal simply two weeks in the past on the ISSF World Cup in Buenos Aires. Now doubling his particular person medal rely with the gold in Lima, Hinton is steadily climbing the worldwide capturing ranks.
“I’ve been doing a number of coaching, however confidence is an enormous a part of the sport,” stated Hinton, a Dacula, Georgia, native. “I knew if I might collect that, then it could come to me, and I might roll with it.”
Hinton, a 2023 Pan American Video games staff member, made his Olympic debut final summer time on the Paris 2024 Video games. His victory on the Lima World Cup boosted the U.S. medal rely to a powerful seven, solidifying the nation’s present place because the top-ranked nation in gold medals.
“We knew that we had been going to have a great likelihood at getting a number of medals,” stated Hinton, a 2023 World Championship staff member. “We did a number of finals coaching previous to coming down right here and I might say that we did pretty nicely.”
Sagen Maddalena, a Paris 2024 Olympic medalist, claimed gold in Girls’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions. Lima marked Maddalena’s return to worldwide competitors following the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games. The USAMU Workers Sgt. had taken a break from capturing after the Olympics, making her triumphant comeback all of the extra exceptional.
The skeet staff additionally had a standout efficiency on the Lima World Cup, incomes 5 medals. The U.S. Girls’s Skeet athletes swept the rostrum with Kimberly Rhode claiming gold, Samantha Simonton incomes silver, and Dania Vizzi profitable bronze. Dustan Taylor topped the rostrum in Males’s Skeet with a gold medal, marking his first particular person ISSF medal. Christian Elliott shared the rostrum with Taylor by incomes a silver medal.
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