Army Staff Sgt. Michael McPhail barely missed qualifying for finals of the men’s 50m rifle prone Friday at the London Olympics, finishing ninth with a score of 595. Army Sgt. 1st Class Eric Uptagrafft finished 16th with a 594 in the same round. Sergei Martynov of Belarus set a world record in the event’s finals as he won the gold medal he had been looking for at six Olympics, The Associated Press reported. Martynov became the second shooter in Olympic history to score the maximum 600 points in qualification, and went on to score a total of 705.5 points, beating…
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Army Sgt. Glenn Eller and Staff Sgt. Joshua Richmond failed to qualify in Thursday’s men’s double trap event at the Royal Artillery Barracks in London, according to the London 2012 website. Eller scored 126 to place 22nd, and Richmond scored 131 to place 16th. The top six shooters qualified with scores ranging from 137 to 143. Army Sgt. 1st Class Keith Sanderson is scheduled to compete Friday in the second qualification of the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol event.
Seth Kelsey, the Air Force captain competing in his third Olympic Games, lost in overtime in the bronze medal match of men’s individual epee event. The score was 11-12, according to the London 2012 website. Kelsey lost to South Korean Jinsun Jung on Wednesday after a string of victories, including one over No. 1-seeded Nikolai Novosjolov of Estonia. In the bronze medal bout, Kelsey battled back to tie the match at 11, and then made a bold choice, according to The Gazette of Colorado Springs, Colo. “I’ve always been disappointed in my previous Olympic performances,” Kelsey said. “Today, I beat…
Air Force Capt. Seth Kelsey lost his men’s epee semifinal match to Ruben Gascon of Venezuela, 5-6. Kelsey will compete for the Bronze medal later today against the loser of the semifinal match between Jinsun Jung of South Korea and Bartosz Piasecki of Norway, The Associated Press reports. According to The Washington Post, “Kelsey was crestfallen Wednesday after he lost in sudden death.” It was the lowest-scoring match of the Olympics thus far.
Air Force Capt. Seth Kelsey reached the men’s epee semifinals at the Olympics in London today, the Associated Press reports. Kelsey is competing in his third Olympic Games. He was ousted quickly from the Athens Games in 2004 and the Beijing Games in 2008, but won his first-round bout today over China’s Li Guojie 8-7, AP reports. He then scored a huge upset by beating No. 1 seed and former world champion Nikolai Novosjolov of Estonia 15-11 in the round of 16. That put the 17th-seeded Kelsey into the quarterfinals, where he downed Venezuela’s Silvio Fernandez 15-9. The men’s epee…
