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Skeet shooting is a recreational and competitive activity whose participants use shotguns to attempt to break clay targets which two fixed stations mechanically fling into the air at high speed and at a variety of angles. [1] Skeet is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay shooting—alongside trap shooting and sporting clays.
Olympic skeet is a variant of skeet shooting, and the specific variant used in the Olympic Games. The discipline is sanctioned by the International Shooting Sport Federation . Two throwing machines at different heights launch a series of 25 targets in a specific order, some as singles and some as doubles, with the shooter having a fixed ...
Skeet was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1992 Summer Olympics. It was the last Olympic skeet competition open to both men and women, and the only mixed shooting competition at the Olympics ever won by a woman: Zhang Shan. The competition consisted of a qualification round of 150 targets, a semifinal of 50 targets for the top 24 ...
He is a two-time world champion in skeet shooting, from 1983 and 1986, and earned a silver medal in 1987. [ 1 ] Dryke has been inducted into the USA Shooting Hall of fame .
Bernard "Barney" Conrad Hartman (2 November 1916 – 30 October 2016) was a world champion skeet shooter, [1] National Skeet Shooting Association Hall of Fame Inductee, [2] Canadian Sports Hall of Famer, [3] and recipient of the Order of Canada. [4]
Becky Stutzman McCumber (born Rebecca Stutzman, 1956) is a champion in the sport of skeet shooting. She won over thirty-five world skeet shooting championships, with her first in 1983. She also set two world records, hitting 1,183 consecutive targets in the 12-gauge ladies division and 259 straight in the long run doubles division for ladies.
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Lauryn Annyn Mark (née Ogilvie, [1] born April 15, 1980, in Los Gatos, California, United States [2]) is an American Australian Olympic Women's Skeet shooter. She finished fourth in Women's Skeet in the 2004 Summer Olympics [3] and won three gold medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.