Two Team Spots & Plenty of Competition Awaits Competitors at 2016 Olympic Team Trials

By Justin Stakes

Fort Benning, GA -(AmmoLand.com)- The holiday countdown for America’s elite Airgun athletes is upon us and they’re hoping it includes plenty of 10.9s as a record crowd is expected for Part I of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials set for the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, December 4-6.

Over 430 athletes are expected to compete 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 begin Friday as athletes will face 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.

Today’s focus is the Air Pistol competition currently …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand