2012 - SHOOTING

USA 2012 SHOOTING OLYMPIC MEDALS

Men

50m rifle three positions			Matthew Emmons 1,271.3 pts
Skeet	Vincent Hancock 148 pts

Women

50m rifle three positions	Jamie Lynn Gray 691.9 pts
Skeet	Kimberly Rhode 99 pts

The United States confirmed their status as olympic power in Shooting competitions. The USA team won a total of 4 medals, 3 gold. The 1964 Tokyo's olympics marked the last time the country had won more than 2 gold medals in Shooting, excluding the Socialist boycott of 1984. In number of gold medals, USA were only surpassed by South Korea. In the total medals criteria, USA reached the fourth position, behind China, South Korea and Italy. Germany and Russia, traditional powers in Shooting, had awful performances. Germany didn't won a single medal while Russia was limited to a bronze medal. The U.S. women commanded the USA's success, with two gold medals, while US men were responsible for two other medals, one gold and one bronze. In 2008, in Beijing, the USA shooters won 6 medals, 2 gold. MEN. The USA men had a discreet performance, with only 2 medals, 1 gold and 1 bronze, unlike 2008, when they won 4 medals, 2 gold. Vincent Hancock won the Skeet event again, like in 2008, while the excellent Matthew Emmons secured a bronze medal in the rifle 3 positions event. Olympic champion in 2008 Beijing olympics, Walton Eller missed the podium in the double trap event. He was the USA's biggest disapointment in 2012 Olympic Shooting. WOMEN. The USA's female shooters were responsible for putting the U.S. in second place in number of gold medals, with 2 wins. Jamie Lynn Gray won the rifle 3 positions event, while Kimberly Rhode again confirmed her status as the world's best shot gun shooter by winning the Gold medal in the Skeet event. Rhode has amassed five Olympic medals, 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze from 1996 to 2012.  She was Olympic champion in double trap event in 1996 and 2004, Silver medallist in skeet event in 2008 and Bronze medallist in the double trap event in 2000. The U.S. had a good showing in Shooting competitios in London 2012, despite the fact their team had got 6 medals, 2 gold, four years earlier in Beijing olympics.