Shooting at the Pan Am Games#

USA Shooting is coming into the final part of the Olympic quad on a competition high.

The team most recently won 10 medals and set three world records at the 2023 International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) World Championship. In 2023, shotgun athletes secured more than 30 medals at ISSF world cups, while the Paralympic team won two bronze medals at the Changwon World Shooting Para Sport (WSPS) World Cup. In 2022, athletes won 44 medals at the Championship of the Americas Games (CAT), 19 medals at the ISSF World Championship, and over 30 ISSF World Cup medals.

During the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, the team brought home a total of six medals, bringing our total Olympic and Paralympic medal count to 121 with 58 gold, 32 silver, and 31 bronze. USA Shooting currently holds the most shooting sports Olympic gold medals of any country (58).

Many of our athletes, Alison Weisz, Christian Elliott, Tim Sherry and Kevin Nguyen, also serve in the U.S. Army in addition to training and competing full time in their sport.

USA Shooting currently has 15 quotas secured for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024. The rifle, pistol, shotgun, and Paralympic teams are ready, now more than ever, for the Pan American Games Santiago 2023 and Paris 2024. Team USA fans should be excited to watch veteran athletes like Vincent Hancock, three-time Olympic Gold medalist, and Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls compete for the chance to make the Paris team.

• Vincent Hancock — Hancock is often referred to as the G.O.A.T. of men’s skeet. His nickname is well earned as he has three Olympic gold medals. Vincent’s accomplishments don’t stop at the Olympic stage. He has 23 world cup medals, is a four-time world champion, and a two-time CAT Games champion. Vincent is looking to make his fifth Olympic team for Paris 2024.
  
• Lucas Kozeniesky — Kozeniesky has become a household name in the rifle community over the past few years. His 2020 Olympic silver medal and the success of his coaching business, Team Winning Solutions, has put him on the map. Lucas is going into the 2023 Pan American Games as the reigning champion in men’s air rifle. The North Carolina State alumnus is a six-time world cup medalist and four-time 2022 CAT Games medalist. Lucas has his sights set on his third Olympic team for Paris 2024.
  
• Alicia Gough — Gough has quickly risen among the ranks of women’s trap in 2023, which is an impressive feat given the fact that she gave birth to her first child in January of this year. She made the national team two weeks postpartum then proceeded to win her first international medal one month later. Alicia also serves in the Army with the Army Marksmanship Unit. The Burlington, Wisconsin, native made her world championship debut this year and is looking to make her first Olympic team at Paris 2024.
  
• Lexi Lagan — Lagan discovered Olympic style pistol shooting in college and made her Olympic debut in Tokyo 2020, just four years after graduating. Lexi is a six-time national champion and the 2018 CAT Games champion. In between training and competing, she works for Lucas Kozeniesky, rifle Olympian, as a coach for Team Winning Solutions.