LIMA, Peru– Ole Miss alum and 2021 Tokyo Olympian Ali Weisz included 3 medals to her collection at the CAT Champions in Lima, Peru, winning gold, silver and bronze today. The air rifle sharpshooter likewise set the 10m Air Rifle World Record Tuesday, shooting a blistering 635.3 in the certifying phase.
Weisz showed why she is among the very best air rifle professional athletes worldwide, shattering the World Record by 1.3 points in the certifying phase of the ladies’s air rifle occasion. She led the pack, shooting a 635.3, to reword the record books. Weisz struck 3 best 10.9 s and just missed out on a 10 as soon as in her 60 shots. She advanced to the ranking match, where she would go on to shoot a 259.2 and make the bronze medal, missing out on the gold medal match by simply 0.6 points.
The next day, Weisz contended for the United States in mixed-team air rifle and ladies’s group air rifle occasions. In the combined group occasion, Weisz and her colleague Brandon Muske fired the very best rating in certification, with an overall rating of 627.2. The 2 U.S. groups squared off in the last match, where Weisz and Muske took house the silver medal.
The 2017 graduate’s day was not over as she contended in the ladies’s group air rifle occasion. She shot together with her U.S. colleagues, the gold and silver private medalists. Weisz and the U.S. group controlled its competitors in both the certifying phase and the gold medal match. The U.S. ladies’s group won the gold medal with an excellent 12-2 success in the last match over Argentina.
Ali Weisz is presently ranked No. 2 worldwide in 10m ladies’s air rifle.
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