USA Taking pictures athletes earned 10 medals, together with one world champion title, on the 2024 ISSF Junior World Championships Sept. 26-Oct. 7 in Lima, Peru.
Over 30 rifle, pistol, and shotgun athletes competed on the prestigious competitors. Athletes certified for the workforce by alternatives matches earlier this 12 months. Among the many 10 medals earned is Braden Peiser’s gold in Males’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions, making him the 2024 Junior World Champion.
“It’s a bit surreal,” mentioned Peiser about his massive win. “I’ve been in a number of finals and fairly just a few worldwide finals. I used to be having fun with this remaining and the chase. It was enjoyable sitting in second or third and realizing I had some work to do.”
This 12 months’s competitors is the fifth Junior World Championships Peiser has competed in and his first particular person gold medal. Peiser additionally earned bronze on the 2024 competitors in Males’s 10m Air Rifle and silver in Males’s 10m Air Rifle Staff.
In reality, USA podiumed in a number of workforce occasions this 12 months. 5 of the medals earned had been in workforce occasions to incorporate bronze in Combined Staff Skeet, gold in Males’s Skeet Staff, bronze in Girls’s Skeet Staff, and silver in Girls’s 10m Air Rifle Staff.
Together with Peiser’s accomplishments, particular person medals had been earned by Katie Zaun, bronze in Girls’s 10m Air Rifle; Gracie Hensely, silver in Girls’s Skeet; and Benjamin Keller, silver in Males’s Skeet.
Keller, of Johnstown, Colorado, has been racking up his ISSF World Championship medals. He earned gold in Males’s Skeet on the 2022 and 2023 competitions. Keller, who’s simply 19 years outdated, has over 10 worldwide medals and is trying to compete within the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Video games.
The world champion workforce athletes additionally made a handful of appearances in finals. Griffin Lake, of Emmaus, Pennsylvania, shot within the Males’s 50m Rifle 3 Place remaining the place he completed in sixth place. Tyler Wee, of Wake Forest, North Carolina, joined Lake within the remaining and positioned eight. See official outcomes right here.
Karsyn Ross, of Seguin, Texas, and Madeline Corbin, of Reedsburg, Wisconsin, each competed within the Girls’s Skeet remaining the place they positioned sixth and fifth respectively. See official outcomes right here. Keller and Fayth Layne, of Columbia, Tennessee, competed within the Combined Skeet Staff bronze medal match the place they positioned fourth. See official outcomes right here.
Emme Walrath, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, made an look within the Girls’s 50m Rifle 3 Place remaining the place she completed fourth. See official outcomes right here.
See all 10 medals the workforce earned under:
- Braden Peiser: Bronze, Males’s 10m Air Rifle
- Braden Peiser, Tyler Wee, and Jacob Wisman: Silver, Males’s 10m Air Rifle Staff
- Katie Zaun, Emme Walrath, and Kenzie Kring: Silver, Girls’s 10m Air Rifle Staff
- Gracie Hensley: Silver, Girls’s Skeet
- Benjamin Keller: Silver, Males’s Skeet
- Katie Zaun: Bronze, Girls’s 10m Air Rifle
- Jordan Sapp, Benjamin Keller, and Joshua Corbin: Gold, Males’s Skeet Staff
- Gracie Hensley, Fayth Layne, and Madeline Corbin: Bronze, Girls’s Skeet Staff
- Madeline Corbin and Jordan Sapp: Bronze, Combined Staff Skeet
- Braden Peiser: Gold, Males’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions
View all official outcomes right here. View pictures from the competitors right here.
Up subsequent for USA Taking pictures is the 2024 ISSF World Cup Ultimate Oct. 13-18 in New Delhi, India. Observe @USAShooting on Instagram, Fb, and X for competitors updates and outcomes.
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USA Taking pictures, a 501(c)(3) non-profit company was chartered by the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee because the Nationwide Governing Physique for the Olympic & Paralympic Taking pictures Sports activities in April 1995. The group develops and implements applications to advertise progress within the sport and serves as a sanctioning physique for native and nationwide competitions. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Coaching Middle, USA Taking pictures has a full-time employees devoted to our sport.
