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Skeet. 2007 Rio de Janeiro. Skeet. Kimberly Susan Rhode (born July 16, 1979) is an American double trap and skeet shooter. [1] A California native, she is a six-time Olympic medal winner, including three gold medals, and six-time national champion in double trap. She is the most successful female shooter at the Olympics as the only triple ...
Nathan Hales. Nathan Grant Hales (born 16 June 1996) [1] is a British sport shooter. He was born in Kent. He participated at the 2019 World Shotgun Championships, where he won team bronze in the trap. [2] At the 2022 World Shotgun Championships, Hales earned a quota place for the 2024 Olympic Games when he won silver in the Individual Men's Trap.
Trap shooting is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting.The other disciplines are skeet shooting and sporting clays. [1] [2]Trap shooting is distinguished by the targets being launched from a single "house" or machine, generally away from the shooter, compared with skeet shooting where targets are launched from two "houses" crossing in front of the shooter.
The USA Clay Target League is the largest youth clay target shooting program in the world, with over 50,000 participants yearly. [1] The organization's high school program - USA High School Clay Target League - runs high-school trapshooting leagues in states nationwide, the largest of which is Minnesota, where 12,000 students from nearly 450 ...
Official website. Ralph Hubert " Sonny " Barger Jr. (October 8, 1938 – June 29, 2022) was an American outlaw biker who was a founding member of the Oakland, California chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in 1957. [3] After forming the Oakland chapter, Barger was instrumental in unifying various disparate Hells Angels chapters and had ...
Down-the-line. Down-the-line ( DTL) clay pigeon shooting is a variation of trap shooting which is very popular in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Its origins stem from live pigeon shooting as well as the very beginnings of the clay target sort. DTL now forms part of the family of ...
Mixed trap. Brian Burrows (born February 17, 1988, in Torrance, California) is an American sport shooter. [1] Burrows and Madelynn Bernau won the bronze medal in the mixed trap team event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. Burrows won the gold medal in the men's trap event at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru.
Nora Ross is an American trap shooting champion. She is known for being perhaps the best one-eye shooter in the United States. [1] She's a 34-time All-American, 15-time All American Ladies Captain, and a 30-time Trap and Field Average winner. [2] Ross is the first woman to break 200 in doubles. She was inducted into the Trapshooting Hall of ...