James Graves
| James Graves medal table |
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 James Graves (2000) |
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 United States
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| Olympic games | ||
| bronze | Sydney 2000 | Skeet |
| World championships | ||
| bronze | Barcelona 1993 | Skeet (M) |
| gold | Lima 1997 | Skeet (M) |
| bronze | Barcelona 1998 | Skeet |
| silver | Barcelona 1998 | Trap (M) |
| silver | Lahti 2002 | Skeet (M) |
| bronze | Lonato 2005 | Skeet |
| silver | Lonato 2005 | Skeet (M) |
| bronze | Nicosia 2007 | Skeet (M) |
| Pan American Games | ||
| silver | Rio de Janeiro 2007 | Skeet |
James Todd Graves (born March 27, 1963 in Ruston ) is a retired American marksman .
successes
James Graves participated in four Olympic Games . At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , he finished 29th in the trap - the only time that he started in this discipline at the Olympic Games. In the skeet , he finished the competition in eleventh place. Four years later he reached 15th place in Atlanta . 2000 in Sydney he qualified with 123 points for the final, in which he scored a further 24 points. With a total of 147 points, he finished third behind Mykola Miltschew and Petr Málek , so that he won the bronze medal. He finished the 2004 Games in Athens in eighth place.
After Graves won bronze at the World Championships with the Skeet team in Barcelona in 1993 , he secured the title with her in Lima in 1997 . The following year, back in Barcelona, another bronze medal followed in the individual Skeet competition, while he finished second with the Trap team. Further medal wins in skeet followed: in Lahti in 2002 and in Lonato del Garda in 2005 , he was runner-up with the team and won bronze with her in 2007 in Nicosia ; in the individual, he finished third in 2005 as in 1998. In 2001, Graves became the US individual skeet champion. At the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro , Graves won the silver medal behind Vincent Hancock in the skeet.
As Sergeant First Class, Graves was a member of the sniper unit, to which he was assigned shortly after joining the US Army in 1984. After his active career, he became national coach of the US team in 2012. He is married and has two children.
Web links
- James Graves in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)
- James Graves in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- James Graves at USA Shooting (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Four-time Olympian Todd Graves Named USA Shooting National Team Coach for Shotgun. In: usashooting.org. USA Shooting , October 3, 2012, accessed October 27, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Graves, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Graves, James Todd (full name); Graves, Todd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American marksman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Port Angeles , United States |