SHOOTING: Sherry, Todorova, Weisz sweep Rifle/Pistol Spring Selection matches

Double 10 m Air Rile winner Tim Sherry

This week’s competitions at the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit in Fort Benning, Georgia will select the U.S. rifle and pistol competitors for the Pan American Games in Lima (PER) this summer, as well as two ISSF World Cups, in Beijing (CHN) and Munich (GER).

Separate events were held for the Pan Am and World Cup selection, and through the first four events, three were swept by Tim Sherry, by ex-Bulgarian veteran Miglena Todorova and Alison Weisz.

Former NCAA Champion Sherry – 11th at last year’s nationals – was a clear winner in the 10 m Air Rifle/Pan Am over Lucas Kozeniesky and in the World Cup Selection over 2018 national champ Dempster Christenson. Todorova, a long-time Bulgarian star, won the 10 m Air Pistol events over Nathalia Tobar (Pan Am) and last year’s national champ, Lexi Lagan (World Cup). Weisz, the national runner-up in 2018, won both of the 10 m Air Rifle events over Minden Miles.

U.S. 10 m Pistol national champion Nick Mowrer won the Pan Am match over James Hall, but Hall took the World Cup Selection match over Mowrer.

(This story was updated to correct Todorova’s status; she is now eligible to compete for the U.S., but competed for Bulgaria in the past.) Summaries so far:

USA Shooting Rifle/Pistol Spring Selection
Ft. Benning, Georgia (USA) ~ 25-30 March 2019
(Full results links here)

Men

10 Air Pistol/Pan Am Selection: 1. Nick Mowrer, 1,149.5; 2. James Hall, 1,149.5 (Shoot-off: Mowrer 21.1, Hall 19.3); 3. Jay Shi, 1,148.0; 4. Hunter Battig, 1,144.5; 5. Richard Gray, 1,137.0.

10 m Air Pistol/World Cup Selection: 1. Hall, 1,157; 2. Mowrer, 1,155; 3. Battig, 1,152; 4. Shi, 1,152 (Shoot-off: Battig 19.9, Shi 18.3); 5. Gray, 1,139.

10 m Air Rifle/Pan Am Selection: 1. Tim Sherry, 1,260.0; 2. Lucas Kozeniesky, 1,258.5; 3. Dempster Christianson, 1,255.4; 4. Matthew Rawlings, 1,254.6; 5. Bill Shaner, 1,250.4.

10 m Air Rifle/World Cup Selection: 1. Sherry, 2,508.5; 2. Christenson, 2,503.1; 3. Rawlings, 2,499.8; 4. George Norton, 2,497.8; 5. Kozeniesky, 2,497.6.

Women

10 m Air Pistol/Pan Am Selection: 1. Miglena Todorova, 1,142.5; 2. Nathalia Tobar, 1,139.5; 3. Sandra Uptagrafft, 1,138.5; 4. Helen Oh, 1,138.5 (Shoot-off: Tobar 19.7, Uptagrafft 19.5); 5. Lexi Lagan, 1,137.5.

10 m Air Pistol/World Cup Selection: 1. Todorova, 1,146; 2. Lagan, 1,145; 3. Tobar, 1,145 (Shoot-off: Lagan 19.5, Tobar 19.3); 4. Uptagrafft, 1,144; 5. Oh, 1,144 (Shoot-off: Uptagrafft 18.4, Oh, 18.2).

10 m Air Rifle/Pan Am Selection: 1. Alison Weisz, 1,257.8; 2. Minden Miles, 1,254.4; 3. Rosemary Kramer, 1,252.2; 4. Emily Stith, 1,250.3; 5. Hailee Sigmon, 1,249.0.

10 m Air Rifle/World Cup Selection: 1. Weisz, 2,517.7; 2. Miles, 2,502.5; 3. Ginny Thrasher, 2,500.3; 4. Stith, 2,498.6; 5. Mary Tucker, 2,497.3.