2024 Paris Olympic Shooting Results: China, USA Win Big

It’s a wrap for the capturing occasions on the 2024 Paris Olympics and the world noticed phenomenal capturing with 5 new Olympic information set in 14 totally different medal occasions and 42 medals up for grabs. China confirmed they’re at the moment those to beat successful essentially the most capturing medals in Paris with 11 together with six gold, two silver and three bronze. The USA (one gold, three silver, one bronze) and Korea (two gold, three silver) had been subsequent with 5 medals every and Italy adopted go well with with 4 medals (one gold, two silver, one bronze). India, Switzerland and Guatemala every joined the international locations incomes a couple of medal with two apiece. 

The USA noticed veteran skeet shooter, Vincent Hancock, turn out to be certainly one of solely six rivals in Olympic historical past to win 4 gold medals in the identical occasion. He joins Al Oerter (USA, discus), Paul Elvstrom (Denmark, crusing one-person class), Carl Lewis (USA, lengthy bounce), Michael Phelps (USA, 200m particular person medley), and Mijain Lopez (Cuba, Greco-Roman heavyweight) to perform the feat and is the primary Olympic shooter to take action. He received gold medals in 2008 in Beijing, in 2012 in London, in 2020 in Tokyo and now in 2024 in Paris. He additionally received a silver medal for his participation and end within the Skeet Combined Staff competitors.

USA Capturing Olympic Highlights

Listed here are extra USA Capturing highlights from Paris:

Sagen Maddalena, earned the primary medal for USA within the 2024 Olympics when she received a silver medal within the Ladies’s 50m Smallbore Rifle. Maddalena, from Groveland, California, is a sergeant within the U.S. Military Marksmanship Unit and a College of Alaska Fairbanks alumna. She beforehand competed in Tokyo 2020, putting fifth.

Conner Prince from Burleson, Texas, made his Olympic debut in Paris 2024 the place he received silver in Males’s Skeet ending proper behind Hancock. Moreover being his first Olympic medal in his first Olympics, it additionally marked the primary time the USA secured a couple of medal in Males’s Skeet at an Olympic Video games. Prince’s efficiency, which included tying the Olympic qualification file, was a big achievement.

Austen Smith from Keller, Texas, is a College of Texas at Arlington pupil and a seasoned worldwide shooter with over 20 medals. She made her Olympic debut in Tokyo 2020, ending tenth. She received bronze in Ladies’s Skeet in Paris this yr for her first Olympic medal and adopted it up with a silver whereas paired up with Hancock competing within the Skeet Combined Staff occasion. 

Olympic Capturing Went Viral

Olympic shooters in 2024 additionally grew to become temporary web sensations with their model and strategy to their video games with Korean shooter, Kim Yeji, 31, touchdown consideration for the aura of cool she projected when competing and successful a silver within the 10m Air Pistol occasion. Whereas Turkish shooter, Yusef Dikec, rolling in with common trying glasses, a white Turkish t-shirt, no muffs, grey hair and simply hanging again with one hand in his pocket and the opposite driving tacks from his air pistol, appeared extra like a man who obtained disturbed from studying a ebook and requested if he needed to compete in a capturing occasion. Dikec, 51, a former officer within the Turkish Gendarmerie, received a silver together with Sevval Ilayda Tarhan within the Combined Staff 10m Air Pistol. However not till after he had already been featured in numerous memes and movies on X, Instagram and YouTube. He has competed in each Olympics since 2008.

Olympic Capturing Data Damaged and Tied

5 Olympic capturing information had been damaged and two had been tied in the course of the video games as nicely, as reported by the Related Press:

Chiara Leone of Switzerland scored a 464.4 within the girls’s 50m Rifle 3 Place last, breaking the Olympic file of 463.9 set by fellow Swiss shooter Nina Christen on the Tokyo Video games in 2021.

Adriana Ruano of Guatemala hit 45 of fifty targets in girls’s Lure to interrupt the Olympic file of 43 set by Rehak Stefecekova of Slovakia on the Tokyo Video games in 2021.

Nathan Hales of Britain scored a 48 in males’s Lure, breaking the Olympic file of 43 set by Jiri Liptak and David Kosteleck on the Tokyo Video games in 2021, in the course of the gold medal spherical.

Sheng Lihao of China scored 252 in males’s 10m Air Rifle, breaking the Olympic file of 251.6 set by William Shaner of the US on the Tokyo Video games in 2021.

Oh Ye Jin of South Korea scored a 243.2 in girls’s 10m Air Pistol, breaking the Olympic file of 240.3 set by Vitalina Batsarashkina of the Russian Olympic Committee on the Tokyo Video games in 2021. Roommate Kim Yeji additionally surpassed the earlier mark together with her rating of 241.3 and received the silver medal in that occasion.

Full Olympic Capturing Outcomes

Following is an entire rundown of the 2024 Paris Olympic capturing occasions and medal winners:

10m Air Rifle Combined Staff

Gold:               China

Silver:              Korea

Bronze:            Kazakhstan

10m Air Pistol Males 

Gold:               China – Xie Yu

Silver:              Italy – Federico Nilo Maldini

Bronze:            Italy – Paolo Monna

10m Air Pistol Ladies 

Gold:               Korea – Oh Ye Jin

Silver:              Korea – Kim Yeji

Bronze:            India – Manu Bhaker

10m Air Rifle Ladies 

Gold:               Korea – Ban Hyojin

Silver:              China – Huang Yuting

Bronze:            Switzerland – Audrey Gogniat

10m Air Rifle Males 

Gold:               China – Sheng Lihao   

Silver:              Sweden – Victor Lindgren

Bronze:            Croatia – Miran Maricic

Lure Males

Gold:               Nice Britain – Nathan Hales

Silver:              China – Qi Ying

Bronze:            Guatemala – Jean Pierre Brol Cardenas

Lure Ladies

Gold:               Guatemala – Adriana Ruano Oliva

Silver:              Italy – Silvana Maria Stanco

Bronze:            Australia – Penny Smith

50m Rifle 3 Place Males

Gold:               China – Liu Yukun

Silver:              Ukraine – Serhiy Kulish

Bronze:            India – Swapnil Kusale

50m Rifle 3 Place Ladies

Gold:               Switzerland – Chiara Leone

Silver:              USA – Sagen Maddalena (first medal for U.S. Capturing on the Olympics)

Bronze:            China – Zhang Qiongyue

25m Pistol Ladies

Gold:               Korea – Yang Jiin

Silver:              France – Camille Jedrzejewski

Bronze:            Hungary – Veronika Main

Skeet Males

Gold:               USA – Vincent Hancock (first capturing gold medal and file set)

Silver:              USA – Connor Prince (Prince’s first medal)

Bronze:            Taipei – Lee Meng Yuan

Skeet Ladies

Gold:               China – Francisca Crovetto Chadid

Silver:              Nice Britain – Amber Jo Rutter

Bronze:            USA – Austen Smith

25M Fast Hearth Pistol Males

Gold:               China – Li Yuehong

Silver:              Korea – Cho Yeongjae

Bronze:            China – Wang Xinjie

Skeet Combined Staff

Gold:               Italy

Silver:              USA (Vincent Hancock & Austin Jewell Smith

Bronze:            China

Absent from Competitors

An apparent absence among the many medal winners are Russian athletes, at all times a nemesis within the Olympics for the USA, even after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia was banned, together with Belarus, from this yr’s video games by the IOC for his or her nation’s involvement within the warfare in Ukraine.