Matthew Emmons
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's shooting | |||
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| Gold | 2004 Athens | 50 m Rifle Prone | |
Matthew Emmons (born April 5, 1981) is an American sport shooter. He started out as a successful junior and is one of the holders of the Junior World Record in 50 m Rifle Three positions. The young shooter won both the 2002 ISSF World Cup Final and the 2004 ISSF World Cup Final in this event.
At the great championships however, his successes have come in another event: that of the Prone position. He won both the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships and the 2004 Summer Olympics in this event. In Athens, he was very close to making a historical double, but in the Three positions competition he accidentally cross-fired his last shot and finished eighth.
Emmons is currently a student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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| Olympic medalists in shooting | Olympic Champions in men's 50 m Rifle Prone |
| Frederick Hird | Laurence Adam Nuesslein | Pierre Coquelin de Lisle | Bertil Rönnmark | Willy Røgeberg | Arthur Edwin Cook | Josif Sarbu | Gerald Quellette | Peter Kohnke | Laszlo Hammerl | Jan Kurka | Li Ho Jun | Karlheinz Smieszek | Karoly Varga | Edward Etzel | Miroslav Varga | Lee Eun Chul | Christian Klees | Jonas Edman | Matthew Emmons |
