Junior Roe Highlights Day 1 of 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Airgun

By Justin Stakes

Fort Benning, GA -(AmmoLand.com)- Murray State sophomore Ivan Roe (Manhattan, Montana) led the junior charge on the opening day of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

Nine of the 32 finalists in the four events were junior competitors with Roe’s performance in Air Rifle good enough to give him top honors with two days remaining. Over 430 athletes are competing at the event formally known as the Winter Airgun Championships with five total Olympic spots available including two in Men’s Air Rifle and one each in Women’s Air Rifle, Men’s Air Pistol and Women’s Air Pistol.

The two-part Olympic Trials includes three straight days of competition featuring three qualifiers and three separate finals. Each day’s qualifying scores and points from the event finals will be added to each competitor’s score to get a cumulative total. The top-10 participants in each discipline will then advance to the final stage of Airgun Team Trials next June. No Team spots will be secured during the first stage of these Olympic Team Trials.

Roe had the third best qualifying score before excelling in the final. Dempster Christenson (Sioux …Read the Rest

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