U.S. Rifle and Pistol Athletes Earn 16 Medals at 2024 CAT Games

By Brittany Nelson, USAS Public Relations & Communications Supervisor

COLO SPRGS, CO (April 18, 2024) – USA Capturing athletes introduced dwelling a powerful 16 medals from the 2024 Championship of the Americas (CAT) Video games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 31-April 8.

The U.S. was one of many 21 nations competing for an opportunity to boost our flag over the rostrum. Over 170 athletes participated within the annual rifle and pistol competitors. Many Paris 2024 Olympic certified athletes competed and earned medals for the U.S. on the CAT Video games.

Nick Mowrer, a two-time Olympian, earned the primary medal for the U.S. with a silver in Males’s 10m Air Pistol. Mowrer made his manner into the ultimate after taking pictures a qualification rating of 572. Teammate Jay Shi additionally shot a qualification rating of 572 and competed within the ultimate alongside Mowrer. Mowrer, a soldier within the U.S. Military World Class Athlete program, triumphed over Tugrul Ozer, of Canada, to win silver.

The ladies’s air pistol athletes continued America’s success by incomes two extra spots on the coveted podium. Paris Olympic certified athletes Katelyn Abeln and Lexi Lagan earned silver and bronze respectively. Lagan certified for the ultimate by taking pictures a rating of 576 and Abeln certified with a rating of 571. Lagan certified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games in Ladies’s Air Pistol and Abeln certified for each Ladies’s Air and Sport Pistol.

Abeln additionally helped the Ladies’s 25m Sport Pistol Staff declare the gold medal. Abeln shot alongside teammates Ada Korkhin, and Lisa Emmert Traciak.

Sagen Maddalena, additionally Paris certified, earned the U.S. one other CAT Video games medal by securing gold in Ladies’s 50m Smallbore Rifle. Maddalena, a sergeant within the U.S. Military Marksmanship Unit (USMAU), clenched gold by trumping Andrea Palafox, of Mexico, who completed second.

Maddalena tripled her gold medal depend by additionally inserting first in each Ladies’s 10m Air Rifle and 50m Rifle Susceptible. Sagen then earned a silver medal with teammate Ivan Roe in Blended Staff Air Rifle. Maddalena will likely be competing on the Paris Olympics this summer time in each Ladies’s 10m Air Rifle and Ladies’s 50m Smallbore Rifle.

Roe, one other Paris certified athlete, took dwelling extra than simply the blended group silver medal. He topped the rostrum in Males’s 50m Smallbore Rifle, incomes a gold medal by out taking pictures Tye Ikeda, of Canada, who completed second. Roe, a sergeant within the USAMA, went on to earn a complete of six medals CAT Video games. The Manhattan, Montana, native will likely be competing in Males’s 10m Air Rifle, Blended Staff Air Rifle, and Males’s 50m Smallbore Rifle this summer time in Paris.

Tim Sherry, a workers sergeant within the USAMU, shared the rostrum with Roe and Braden Peiser when the trio earned gold in Males’s 50m Smalbore Staff. Sherry, of Evergreen, Colorado, discovered himself again on the rostrum a number of instances over the span of the competitors. Sherry earned a complete of 4 medals on the 2024 CAT Video games.

Tokyo 2020 Olympian Ali Weisz, and 2023 Pan American Video games medalist Rylan Kissell additionally contributed to the general U.S. medal depend. The duo earned gold in Blended Staff Air Rifle, Weisz took dwelling silver in Ladies’s 10m Air Rifle and Kissell joined Sherry and Roe on the highest of the rostrum for gold in Males’s 10m Air Rifle Staff.

See all medal outcomes of the 2024 Rifle/Pistol CAT Video games beneath:

Nick Mowrer: silver, Males’s air pistol
Katelyn Abeln: silver, Ladies’s Air Pistol
Lexi Lagan: bronze, Ladies’s Air Pistol
Sagen Maddalena: gold, Ladies’s 50m Smallbore Rifle
Ivan Roe: gold, Males’s 50m Smallbore Rifle
Ivan Roe, Tim Sherry, and Braden Peiser: Gold, Males’s 50m Smallbore Staff
Katelyn Abeln, Ada Korkhin, and Lisa Emmert Traciak: gold, Ladies’s 25m Sport Pistol
Sagen Maddalena: gold, Ladies’s 10m Air Rifle
Ali Weisz: silver, Ladies’s 10m Air Rifle
Tim Sherry, Rylan Kissell, and Ivan Roe: gold, Males’s 10m Air Rifle Staff
Tim Sherry: bronze, Males’s 10m Air Rifle
Rylan Kissell & Ali Weisz: gold, Blended Staff Air Rifle
Sagen Maddalena & Ivan Roe: silver, Blended Staff Air Rifle
Sagen Maddalena: gold, 50m Rifle Susceptible
Ivan Roe: bronze, 50m Rifle Susceptible
Tim Sherry, Ivan Roe, and Nick Mowrer: silver, Staff 50m Rifle Susceptible

View official outcomes right here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/outcomes.ashx?cshipid=3200

In simply three months, the U.S. Olympic taking pictures group will take the stage on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, July 26- Aug. 11.

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