USA Earns Top Finish: Air Gun Events Complete at Paris 2024 Olympic Games

By Brittany Nelson, USAS Public Relations & Communications Supervisor

CHATEAUROUX, France (July 29, 2024) – Air rifle and pistol occasions have concluded on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games with Sagen Maddalena incomes fourth in Ladies’s 10m Air Rifle for the U.S.

Maddalena, of Groveland, California, completed fourth in Ladies’s 10m Air Rifle by beating Oceanne Muller, of France. Maddalena secured her spot within the remaining however taking pictures a 631.4 within the qualification spherical.

Mary Tucker, of Sarasota, Florida, competed in Ladies’s 10m Air Rifle and shot a 625.2 within the qualification spherical, with a thirty second place end. Tucker, a Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medalist, additionally paired up with teammate Rylan Kissell, of Denver, Colorado, within the Blended Group Air Rifle occasion.

In Blended Group Air Rifle, every competitor shoots 30 photographs. Kissell and Tucker completed thirteenth total by taking pictures a mixed rating of 626.

Maddalena and Ivan Roe, of Manhattan, Montana, paired as much as shoot the occasion. The duo are each troopers within the U.S. Military Marksmanship Unit. The sergeants completed 18th total by taking pictures a mixed rating of 624.9.

Roe and Kissell went on to compete in Males’s 10m Air Rifle. Roe and Kissell tied for thirty fourth place with scores of 626.3.

USA additionally had athletes Alexis Lagan and Katelyn Abeln competing in Ladies’s 10m Air Pistol. Abeln, a Douglasville, Georgia, native, completed in twenty fourth place with a rating of 570-16x. Lagan, a Boulder Metropolis, Nevada, native, completed in twenty fifth place with a rating of 570-15x.

Roe, Kissell, and Abeln, all made their Olympic debut in Paris. Males’s entice competitors has begun and smallbore rifle and pistol occasions will kick off quickly. View the complete schedule of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games right here.

View all air gun finishes beneath:

Blended Group Air Rifle

-Sagen Maddalena and Ivan Roe: 18th place, qualification rating of 624.9

-Mary Tucker and Rylan Kissell: thirteenth place, qualification rating of 626

Ladies’s 10m Air Rifle

-Sagen Maddalena: 4th place, finals rating of 207.7

-Mary Tucker: thirty second place, qualification rating of 625.2

Males’s 10m Air Rifle

-Ivan Roe: thirty fourth place (tie), qualification rating of 626.3

-Rylan Kissell: thirty fourth place (tie), qualification rating of 626.3

Ladies’s 10m Air Pistol

-Katelyn Abeln: twenty fourth place, qualification rating of 570-16x

-Alexis Lagan: twenty fifth place, qualification rating of 570-15x

View official scores right here.

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USA Taking pictures, a 501(c)(3) non-profit company was chartered by the USA Olympic and Paralympic Committee because the Nationwide Governing Physique for the Olympic & Paralympic Taking pictures Sports activities in April 1995. The group develops and implements packages to advertise progress within the sport and serves as a sanctioning physique for native and nationwide competitions. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Coaching Middle, USA Taking pictures has a full-time workers devoted to our sport.