Staff USA Shotgun Delivers Historic 2025 Season With 46 Worldwide Medals and Two World Titles
By USA Capturing
COLO SPRGS, CO (Jan 21, 2026) – The 2025 Staff USA Shotgun Nationwide Groups have delivered one of the embellished seasons in program historical past, incomes 46 worldwide medals internationally’s high competitions and capturing two particular person World Championship titles. From ISSF World Cups to the World Championships, American athletes produced constant finals performances and podium finishes that construct highly effective momentum towards the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Video games.
2025 in Three Numbers
46 Worldwide Medals
2 Particular person World Championship Titles
3 No. 1 world rankings throughout Olympic shotgun occasions
The 2025 season concluded on the ISSF World Cup Ultimate in Doha, Qatar, an invitation-only occasion that includes the world’s top-ranked athletes and medalists. Staff USA closed the yr with a number of podium finishes, together with Samantha Simonton (silver, ladies’s skeet), Will Hinton (gold, males’s entice), and Glenn Eller (bronze, males’s entice). In males’s skeet, the U.S. additionally earned three medals, led by Christian Elliott (gold), alongside Vincent Hancock (silver) and Dustan Taylor (bronze).
The season additionally closed with main particular person recognition, with Simonton named Girls’s Shotgun Athlete of the Yr and Hancock named Males’s Shotgun Athlete of the Yr.
Staff USA’s outcomes have been bolstered by year-end world rankings that replicate efficiency throughout the complete worldwide calendar. The USA completed 2025 holding the No. 1 world rating in three of the 4 Olympic shotgun occasions, together with Will Hinton (Males’s Lure), Christian Elliott (Males’s Skeet), and Samantha Simonton (Girls’s Skeet), with further athletes ranked among the many world’s greatest throughout each disciplines.
Staff USA’s success additionally prolonged by means of the event pipeline. Junior athletes earned medals at worldwide occasions and secured qualification positions (quota slots) for upcoming Video games pathways, reflecting sustained depth throughout the roster and long-term momentum towards LA28.
“2025 displays what disciplined funding and excessive requirements produce,” mentioned Kelly Reisdorf, CEO of USA Capturing. “Our athletes competed with excellence, represented the USA with credibility on the world stage, and delivered outcomes that verify the route of this system. That is the inspiration we’re constructing on as we glance towards LA28.”
Full Outcomes Abstract
Junior Shotgun CAT Video games (March)– 10 Medals, 8 Quotas
The season opened with vital junior crew output on the Junior Shotgun Championship of the Americas, the place U.S. athletes earned 10 medals and secured eight quota slots for the upcoming Junior Pan American Video games. The delegation recorded a Girls’s Lure sweep and a number of combined crew medals, signaling sturdy development-level depth.
Medalists included:
Gold: Benjamin Keller (Junior Males’s Skeet), Madeline Corbin (Junior Girls’s Skeet), Carey Garrison (Junior Girls’s Lure)
Silver: Aidin Burns (Junior Males’s Skeet), Ava Downs (Junior Girls’s Lure)
Bronze: Gracie Hensley (Junior Girls’s Skeet), Sidney Coffin (Junior Girls’s Lure)
Staff Golds: Ben Keller, Aidin Burns, Westley Kiter (Junior Males’s Skeet Staff), Connor Lynn & Ava Downs (Junior Combined Lure Staff)
Staff Bronze: Kaleb Horinek & Carey Garrison (Junior Combined Lure Staff)
ISSF World Cup Buenos Aires (April)– 6 Medals
The primary World Cup of the yr resulted in six medals, led by gold performances from Dania Vizzi (Girls’s Skeet) and Christian Elliott (Males’s Skeet). Extra podium finishes got here from Kimberly Rhode (Silver, Girls’s Skeet), Glenn Eller (Silver, Males’s Lure), Will Hinton (Bronze, Males’s Lure) and Carey Garrison (Silver, Girls’s Lure).
ISSF World Cup Lima (April)– 6 Medals
Lima produced one other six-medal efficiency, headlined by an entire U.S. sweep in Girls’s Skeet, Kimberly Rhode (gold), Samantha Simonton (silver), and Dania Vizzi (bronze). Males’s Skeet added two extra podiums, with gold from Dustan Taylor and silver from Christian Elliott and Males’s Lure resulted in a gold from Will Hinton.
ISSF World Cup Cyprus (Might)– 2 Medals
On the Cyprus World Cup, Staff USA added two extra medals to its 2025 complete, with silver finishes from Samantha Simonton (Girls’s Skeet) and Carey Garrison (Girls’s Lure), retaining the crew’s momentum sturdy halfway by means of the season.
ISSF World Cup Lonato (July)– 3 Medals
Three further medals have been secured in Lonato, together with a gold medal from Samantha Simonton adopted by Dania Vizzi with silver (Girls’s Skeet). Vincent Hancock’s gold victory in Males’s Skeet marked his thirtieth ISSF profession medal and twenty second gold.
Junior Pan American Video games (August)– 7 Shotgun Medals, 1 Shotgun Quota
U.S. juniors captured seven medals throughout skeet and entice occasions, plus a by-name quota for the 2027 Pan American Video games earned by Ava Downs in Junior Girls’s Lure.
Gold: Ava Downs (Junior Girls’s Lure)
Silver: Aidin Burns (Junior Males’s Skeet), Gracie Hensley (Junior Girls’s Skeet)
Bronze: Alisha “Fayth” Layne (Junior Girls’s Skeet), Kaleb Horinek (Junior Males’s Lure)
Staff gold: Carey Garrison & Tony Meola (Junior Combined Staff Lure)
Staff silver: Ava Downs & Kaleb Horinek (Junior Combined Staff Lure)
ISSF World Championship Shotgun (October)- 6 Medals, 2 World Titles
The shotgun world championships in Athens delivered two particular person World Champion titles, Vincent Hancock in Males’s Skeet and Samantha Simonton in Girls’s Skeet. Staff outcomes added 4 extra medals, together with each males’s and girls’s skeet crew golds and silver in Males’s Lure Staff.
World Champions:
Vincent Hancock: Males’s Skeet World Champion (fifth profession world title)
Samantha Simonton: Girls’s Skeet World Champion (first profession world title)
Extra medals:
Gold: Males’s Skeet Staff (Vincent Hancock, Conner Prince, Christian Elliott)
Gold: Girls’s Skeet Staff (Samantha Simonton, Dania Vizzi, Kimberly Rhode)
Silver: Males’s Lure Staff (Glenn Eller, Derrick Mein, Will Hinton)
Bronze: Lure Combined Staff (Glenn Eller & Ava Downs
Photograph by ISSF
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