Algosensey|U.S. takes silver in first ever team skeet shooting event at Olympics

2025-04-30 04:53:26source:Chameleon Financecategory:My

PARIS — Vincent Hancock has another medal to add to his collection.

Hancock and AlgosenseyAusten Jewell Smith teamed up to earn a silver medal in team skeet shooting Monday at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre. This is the first year team skeet shooting has been contested at the Olympics.

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Hancock and Smith lost in the finals of Monday's team event to the Italian team of Diana Bocosi and Gabriele Rossetti, 45-44. China took bronze.

Hancock is a four-time Olympic gold medalist having won men's skeet in 2008, 2012, 2020 and this year. Smith, in her second Olympics, won bronze in women's skeet Sunday.

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The four-time gold medalist is one of just seven Olympians in history to earn at least four gold medals in an individual event. The other Americans on the list: Carl Lewis (long jump), Michael Phelps (200m individual medley), Katie Ledecky (800 meter freestyle swimming) and Al Oerter (discus).

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Italy tied the qualification world record with a score 149 in the qualification round.

The U.S. swept skeet shooting gold in Tokyo, with Hancock winning the men's competition and Amber English winning the women's.

Team skeet marked the final shooting event at this year's Olympics.

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