BAKU, AZE – Over thirty USA Shooting athletes are competing in the 2023 International Shooting Sports Federation World Championship in Baku, Azerbaijan, being contested now through September 1.
The competition is an opportunity for athletes to not only earn a world champion title, but to earn a U.S. Olympic quota for the Paris 2024 Games.
See the full roster below:
Pistol
- Nickolaus Mowrer – Men’s Air Pistol
- Jay Shi – Men’s Air Pistol
- Anthony Lutz – Men’s Air Pistol
- Henry Leverett – Men’s Rapid Fire Pistol
- Keith Sanderson -Men’s Rapid Fire Pistol
- Suman Sanghera – Women’s Air Pistol
- Katelyn Abeln – Women’s Air Pistol and Sport Pistol
- Lexi Lagan – Women’s Air Pistol and Sport Pistol
- Lisa Emmert – Traciak- Women’s Sport Pistol
Rifle
- Lucas Kozeniesky – Men’s Air Rifle
- Rylan Kissell – Men’s Air Rifle
- Ivan Roe – Men’s Air and Smallbore Rifle
- Patrick Sunderman – Men’s Smallbore Rifle
- Timothy Sherry – Men’s Smallbore Rifle and 300m Rifle
- Alison Weisz – Women’s Air Rifle
- Sagen Maddalena – Women’s Air and Smallbore Rifle
- Mary Tucker – Women’s Air and Smallbore Rifle
- Sarah Beard- Women’s Smallbore Rifle
- Bradley Yliniemi – 300m Rifle
- Gordan Taras – 300m Rifle
- Lucas Erwin – 300m Rifle
- Nathaniel Guernsey – 300m Rifle
- Megan Hilbish – 300m Rifle
- Denise Loring – 300m Rifle
- Abigail Winegarden – 300m Rifle
- Michelle Bohren – 300m Rifle
Shotgun
- Samantha Simonton – Women’s Skeet
- Austen Smith – Women’s Skeet
- Dania Vizzi – Women’s Skeet
- Christian Elliott – Men’s Skeet
- Vincent Hancock – Men’s Skeet
- Dustan Taylor – Men’s Skeet
- Alicia Gough – Women’s Trap
- Ryann Phillips – Women’s Trap
- Rachel Tozier – Women’s Trap
- Derek Haldeman – Men’s Trap
- Will Hinton – Men’s Trap
- Derrick Mein – Men’s Trap
View the fill schedule here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/schedule.ashx?cshipid=3085
Finals can be viewed via stream here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/finalslivebroadcastschedule.ashx?cshipid=3085
With a little less than a year away from the Paris Games, athletes are buckling down and gearing up for these crucial competitions.
USA Shooting has secured 15 quotas for Paris so far. Each country is eligible for two quotas in each event. To date, the U.S. has earned quotas in the following events:
Pistol
- Women’s 10m Air Pistol: earned by Suman Sanghera at the CAT Games
- Women’s 25m Pistol: earned by Katelyn Abeln at the CAT Games
Rifle
- Men’s 10 Air Rifle: earned by Brandon Muske at the CAT Games
- Women’s 10m Air Rifle: earned by Mary Tucker at the CAT Games
- Women’s 10m Air Rifle: earned by Alison Weisz at the World Championship
- Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions: earned by Katie Zaun at the CAT Games
- Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions: earned by Sagen Maddalena at the World Championship
- Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions: earned by Ivan Roe at the CAT Games
Shotgun
- Men’s Trap: earned by William Hinton at the CAT Games
- Men’s Trap: earned by Derrick Mein at the World Championship
- Men’s Skeet: earned by Dustan Taylor at the CAT Games
- Men’s Skeet: earned by Vincent Hancock at the World Championship
- Women’s Trap: earned by Aeriel Skinner at the 2022 CAT Games
- Women’s Skeet: earned by Dania Vizzi at the CAT Games
- Women’s Skeet: earned by Samantha Simonton at the World Championship
USA Shooting also has a Paralympic quota earned by Jazmin Almlie-Ryan in Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone SH2.
When an athlete earns a quota for the U.S. in a specific event, the U.S. then becomes eligible to have an athlete compete in said event at the Olympic Games. Athletes are only eligible to earn one event quota in a four-year Olympic cycle.
Follow @USAShooting on social media to keep up with the latest results for the competition.
About USA Shooting
USA Shooting, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation was chartered by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee as the National Governing Body for the Olympic Shooting Sports in April 1995. The organization develops and implements programs to promote growth in the sport and serves as a sanctioning body for local and national competitions. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the US Olympic and Paralympic Training Center, USA Shooting has a full-time staff dedicated to our sport.
