Six American Shotgun Athletes Set to Compete in World Cup Final

By Duncan Johnson

Rome –-(Ammoland.com)- The final international event of a long 2016 shooting season is upon us with the start of the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup Final (WCF) for Shotgun getting underway Wednesday in Rome, Italy.

Six U.S. athletes will compete including recent Olympic medalists Corey Cogdell-Unrein (Eagle River, Alaska), Kim Rhode (El Monte, California) as well as two-time Olympic gold medalist Vincent Hancock (Eatonton, Georgia) and 2008 Olympian Jeff Holguin (U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit/Yorba Linda, California). Women’s skeet competitors and 2016 World Cup medal winners Amber English (Colorado Springs, Colorado) and Katie Jacob (Rochester, Michigan) are set to join Rhode in the competition.

Six U.S. athletes just wrapped up competition in Bologna, Italy for the Rifle/Pistol portion of World Cup Final with the team bringing home four medals. Michael McPhail (U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit/Darlington, Wisconsin) earned a second consecutive globe trophy as the winner in Prone Rifle. He was joined on the podium by Matt Emmons (Browns Mills, New Jersey) who earned bronze and then earned the same spot on the podium three days later in Three-Position Rifle. Nineteen-year-old Ginny Thrasher (Springfield, …Read the Rest

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