Robert Mitchell Rifle Championships Conclude in Colorado Springs

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado –-(Ammoland.com)- The nearly week-long rifle competition known as the Robert Mitchell Rifle Championships concluded at the Olympic Shooting Center in Colorado Springs with titles awarded in Men’s and Women’s Air and Three-Position Rifle.

More than 60 athletes from four countries competed in the annual match which was the first for USA Shooting to utilize the new International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) rules in which men and women shoot the same number of competition shots in each event.

Though it may have been a smaller match in attendance numbers, there were big scores put up by the athletes in competition. 2016 Olympian Lucas Kozeniesky (Fairfax, Virginia) and three-time Olympic medalist Matt Emmons (Browns Mills, New Jersey) shot world-class Qualification scores of 1178 and 1177 respectively in Men’s Three-Position Rifle. The duo would also end up with Kozeniesky with gold and Emmons silver. Former Prone Rifle specialist Michael McPhail (U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit/Darlington, Wisconsin) rounded out the Men’s Three-Position Rifle podium by claiming the bronze medal. On the Junior side, Peter Fiori (Lebanon, New Jersey) won gold, Devin Schwindt (Lees Summit, Missouri) won silver and John Peterson (Kellar, Texas) won bronze.

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