A number of Canada's rifle shooters heading to the Pan-Am Games in Mexico in a couple of weeks fine-tuned their form at the 2011 Champions of Champions match hosted by the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit in Fort Benning, Georgia, last week.
Our main prone shooters shot in the low 590s. Olympian Johan Sauer's 1184 was enough for eighth place while Michel Dion was just behind with an 1183.
This was right around their performance at the nationals in August. Johan qualified for the finals, where he shot an excellent 103.7 -- one of three to tie on that score in the final. Eric Uptagrafft won the match with a sterling 11197 + 102.0.
The other team shooter at Fort Benning was Greg Sych. Greg has focused more on 3-P than prone over the last few seasons and his 1173 wasn't nearly as consistent as Johan or Michel's scores.
In 3-P, Greg shot a solid 2297, although he was a long way back of the match winner, USAMU shooter Joe Hein and his 2343 + 100.3. Hein clawed back to win the match in the final round by 0.1 points over Mike McPhail.
Four non-Pan Am team members made the trip to Georgia as well. Olympian Pat Vamplew finished with a 1183, while Glynn Loftin posted an 1169, Asmir Arifovic an 1161 and Michael Wong-Shui an 1155.
Pat, Glynn and Michael are members of the National Development Team so maybe they're staying current in case they're picked as alternates.
It's interesting that no one fired a National Team-level score at the match, despite the conditions and quality of the range.
Four members of the Pan-Am team didn't attend: Sharon Bowes, Monica Fyfe, Cindy Hamulas and Cory Neifer. I know they're all training hard!
Our main prone shooters shot in the low 590s. Olympian Johan Sauer's 1184 was enough for eighth place while Michel Dion was just behind with an 1183.
This was right around their performance at the nationals in August. Johan qualified for the finals, where he shot an excellent 103.7 -- one of three to tie on that score in the final. Eric Uptagrafft won the match with a sterling 11197 + 102.0.
The other team shooter at Fort Benning was Greg Sych. Greg has focused more on 3-P than prone over the last few seasons and his 1173 wasn't nearly as consistent as Johan or Michel's scores.
In 3-P, Greg shot a solid 2297, although he was a long way back of the match winner, USAMU shooter Joe Hein and his 2343 + 100.3. Hein clawed back to win the match in the final round by 0.1 points over Mike McPhail.
Four non-Pan Am team members made the trip to Georgia as well. Olympian Pat Vamplew finished with a 1183, while Glynn Loftin posted an 1169, Asmir Arifovic an 1161 and Michael Wong-Shui an 1155.
Pat, Glynn and Michael are members of the National Development Team so maybe they're staying current in case they're picked as alternates.
Here's a link to the complete results on the USA Shooting website.
It's interesting that no one fired a National Team-level score at the match, despite the conditions and quality of the range.
Four members of the Pan-Am team didn't attend: Sharon Bowes, Monica Fyfe, Cindy Hamulas and Cory Neifer. I know they're all training hard!
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