U.S. Trap Women Bring Home Gold & Bronze from World Championship

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

MOSCOW –-(Ammoland.com)- For perhaps the first time ever, all the U.S. women Trap athletes at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship for Shotgun will return home with a medal.

The Open Women’s Team won gold – the first team medal for the U.S. in the event since the 1998 World Championship in Barcelona, Spain. The combined total over 75 targets for team members Ashley Carroll, Caitlin Weinheimer and Corey Cogdell-Unrein was 203, which also tied silver medalists Finland and bronze medalists Italy. The tie for the medal positions was broken by the team’s score on the 25 targets presented today.

Carroll (Solvang, California) finished Qualification in second place with a score of 72, including two perfect rounds of 25 last night and earlier today.

“This competition was a little rough from the get-go,” said Carroll. “But then I started learning to adapt to the lighting conditions; figured out how to work with that. I focused on one target at a time. Got into the Final where unfortunately it got a little tight, but it’s all a learning experience from here.”

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