Matthew Emmons

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Matthew Emmons

Matthew K. Emmons (born April 5, 1981 in Mount Holly , New Jersey ) is an American sports shooter who specializes in shooting with a small bore rifle , but also shoots with an air rifle .

Matthew Emmons starts for the University of Alaska Rifle Team and in the German Bundesliga for Coburg from the 2010/2011 season , previously for Plattling . He is married to the marksman Kateřina Kůrková-Emmons , whom he met during the Athens Games. For the first time he took part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . After he had just missed the final round in ninth place with the air rifle, he finished eighth with the small-bore rifle in the three-position battle and won the gold medal in his favorite discipline, the prone attack with the small-bore rifle. Also in Beijing in 2008 he was on a safe gold course and led in the three-position battle with 3.3 points until the last shot, a comparatively large lead for sport shooting. However, Emmons missed this last shot and only managed a 4.4. The second worst shot in the final was a 7.7. Already in Athens Emmons had fired the last shot on the target of a competitor in this discipline while on gold course, which was rated as 0. In 2008 he fell back to fourth, in 2004 to the last place in the final. In prone he won the silver medal behind Artur Ajwasjan with 701.7 rings. In the final of the 2012 Olympic Games in London , he won the bronze medal in a three-position battle. As in the two previous Olympic Games, he made a mistake on the last shot and slipped from silver to bronze with this 7.6.

At world championships Emmons won gold medal with the team in prone shooting in 2006, and he won a World Cup shooting three times. Between 2000 and 2004 he won the team title of the NCAA run national championships with the team from the University of Alaska .

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SURNAME Emmons, Matthew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emmons, Matthew K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American marksman
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Holly , New Jersey