By Brittany Nelson, USAS Public Relations & Communications Supervisor
COLO SPRGS, CO (Might 10, 2024) – Ada Korkhin, of Brookline Massachusetts, and Henry Leverett, of Bainbridge, Georgia, certified for the Olympic Video games Paris 2024.
Korkhin certified for her first Olympic Video games in Ladies’s 25m Sport Pistol. The Ohio State College student-athlete completed second general within the U.S. Olympic Trials-shooting, a 3 half competitors.
Korkhin might be making her Olympic debut at simply 20 years previous, and she or he isn’t any stranger to worldwide success. The pistol shooter earned a gold medal on the 2024 Championship of the Americas (CAT) Video games in Ladies’s 25m Sport Pistol Group the place she was joined on the rostrum with teammates Katelyn Abeln and Lisa Emmert Traciak.
In 2023 Korkhin added one other spectacular medal to her assortment. She took house bronze on the Worldwide Taking pictures Sports activities Federation (ISSF) Junior World Championship in Ladies’s 25m Sport Pistol. Korkhin might be competing with pistol teammates Alexis Lagan and Abeln in Paris 2024.
Leverett certified for his second Olympic Video games in Males’s 25m Speedy Fireplace Pistol after his teammate Keith Sanderson earn a second U.S. Olympic quota within the occasion. Leverett completed second general in
Males’s 25m Sport Pistol on the conclusion of the U.S. Olympic Trials- capturing, however the group solely had one quota on the time for Paris 2024. Sanderson, who completed first general, secured his qualification spot on the finish of trials.
Sanderson not too long ago earned the second U.S. Olympic quota in Males’s 25m Speedy Fireplace Pistol on the 2024 CAT Video games, permitting Leverett to qualify for Paris 2024.
Leverett, who made his Olympic debut in Tokyo 2020, earned the primary Paris 2024 U.S. Olympic quota in Males’s 25m Sport Pistol on the 2023 Pan American Video games. He additionally earned a bronze medal within the occasion. That is the second quad that Leverett has secured a quota for the U.S. in Males’s 25m Sport Pistol.
Leverett, who additionally competed on the Ohio State College, was a 2023 ISSF World Championships group member and earned gold in Junior Males’s 25m Speedy Fireplace Pistol on the 2021 ISSF World Championships.
Korkhin and Leverett might be competing in Paris 2024 with the next teammates:
–Ivan Roe, Males’s Air Rifle and 50m Smallbore Rifle
–Mary Tucker, Ladies’s Air Rifle and 50m Smallbore Rifle
–Sagen Maddalena, Ladies’s Air Rifle and 50m Smallbore Rifle
–Alexis “Lexi” Lagan: Ladies’s Air Pistol
–Katelyn Abeln: Ladies’s Air Pistol and 25m Sport Pistol
–Ada Korkhin: Ladies’s 25m Sport Pistol
–Keith Sanderson: Males’s 25m Sport Pistol
–Henry Leverett: Males’s 25m Sport Pistol
–Derrick Mein: Males’s Lure
–Will Hinton: Males’s Lure
–Rachel Tozier: Ladies’s Lure
–Ryann Phillips: Ladies’s Lure
–Vincent Hancock: Males’s Skeet
–Conner Prince: Males’s Skeet
–Austen Smith: Ladies’s Skeet
–Dania Vizzi: Ladies’s Skeet
Learn extra concerning the Paris 2024 certified athletes:
-Air rifle and pistol
–Smallbore rifle and pistol
–Shotgun
–Paralympic certified athletes
Further athletes have the possibility to qualify for the Olympic and Paralympic Video games primarily based on choice procedures and quota allotments.
Observe @USAShooting on Fb and Instagram for updates as we strategy the Olympic and Paralympic Video games Paris 2024.
