Rob Leatham, JoJo Vidanes, Mike Voight, and Barry Dueck brought home a Team Gold Medal in the Modified Division - Photo courtesy Julie Golob
This past weekend wrapped up the competition at the IPSC World Shoot in Rhodes, Greece, and shooters from America dominated the leaderboards. Competitors from the United States took home 23 individual medals, with eight of them being gold. They also picked up nine team medals, for a grand total of 32 medals, more than any other country represented. Both male and female U.S. competitors helped rack up the medal count across the different divisions, but for right now, let's here it for the boys. Here's a look at the guys who picked up medals in their respective division and/or age group:
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Revolver
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Production
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Modified
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| Overall Silver, Senior Gold - Jerry Miculek |
Overall Gold- Bob Vogel |
Overall Bronze, Senior Gold - Rob Leatham |
| Overall Bronze - Matt Griffin |
Overall Silver - Ben Stoeger |
Senior Silver - Mike Voight |
| Team Gold -Miculek, Griffin, Cliff Walsh, Patrick Sweeny |
Overall Bronze- Matt Mink |
Team Gold - Leatham, Voight, Jo Jo Vidanes, Barry Dueck |
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Team Gold - Vogel, Stoeger, Mink, Phil Strader |
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Standard
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Open
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Junior
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| Overall Gold - Blake Miguez |
Overall Silver - JJ Racaza |
Standard Gold - Matt Sweeney |
| Overall Bronze - Ted Puente |
Overall Bronze - KC Eusebio |
Open Gold - Shane Coley |
| Team Gold - Miguez, Puente, Taran Butler, Travis Tomasie |
Team Gold - Racaza, Eusebio, Max Michel, Chris Tilley |
Overall Bronze - Ben Thompson |
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Team Gold - Sweeney, Coley, Thompson, Blake Manning |
That's a lot of familiar names bringing home medals! We know competitors such as Jerry Miculek, Mike Voight, Rob Leatham, and KC Eusebio from the NRA Bianchi Cup and NRA-sanctioned 3-Gun matches where we've also seen Taran Butler, Barry Dueck and Blake Manning. This crew also included quite a few Top Shot Alumni like JJ Racaza, Blake Miguez, Chris Tilley, and this season's Cliff Walsh. And let's not forget to mention familiar names from the Army Marksmanship Unit like Matt Sweeney, Shane Coley, and Action Shooting Team Alumni Travis Tomasie and Max Michel. Congratulations to all of the competitors who represented Team USA at the World Shoot! Tomorrow morning we'll have a full listing of the ladies who brought medals home from Greece, so check back!