Vincent Hancock
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Personal information | |||||||||||||
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Born |
Port Charlotte, Florida, U.S. | March 19, 1989||||||||||||
Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||
Club | U.S. Army | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vincent Hancock (born March 19, 1989) is an American shooter and Olympic athlete who won the gold medal in the men's skeet at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing[2] and 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[3][4] He is the first skeet shooter to repeat as the Olympic champion.[5][6]
In 2005, at age of 16, Hancock won his first World Championship title in men’s skeet and went on to win the prestigious International Shooting Sport Federation’s Shooter of the Year award. Hancock also won World Championships in 2009 and again in 2015. Vincent has qualified for the Olympic team and will be representing the United States in Rio in 2016.[7]

Hancock was born in Port Charlotte, Florida, but now resides in Fort Worth, Texas, with his wife, Rebekah and their daughters, Bailey and Brenlyn.
Performance timeline
Skeet
2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
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Olympic Games | Not held | ![]() 121+24 |
Not held | ![]() 123+25 |
Not held | 15th 119 | ||||||
World Championships | ![]() 123+25 |
— | ![]() 123+24 |
Not held | ![]() 124+25 |
Not held | ||||||
Pan American Games/COTA | ![]() 121+25 |
Not held | ![]() 122+25 |
Not held | — | Not held | ||||||
World Cup 1 | ![]() 124+25 |
— | 28th 118 |
4th 121+21 |
— | 4th | ||||||
World Cup 2 | ![]() 124+24 |
5th 120+24 |
— | — | 10th 121 |
4th | ||||||
World Cup 3 | ![]() 123+25 |
— | ![]() 125+25 |
![]() 123+24 |
— | — | ||||||
World Cup 4 | ![]() 124+25 |
— | — | — | 10th 117 |
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World Cup Final | ![]() 123+25 |
NQ | DNS | ![]() 123+24 |
— |
Records
Current world records held in skeet[8] | ||||||||
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Men | Qualification | 125 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
June 14, 2007 July 13, 2008 May 9, 2009 May 20, 2009 July 25, 2009 January 17, 2012 |
Lonato (ITA) Nicosia (CYP) Cairo (EGY) Munich (GER) Osijek (CRO) |
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Final | 150 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
June 14, 2007 July 13, 2008 July 25, 2009 March 7, 2011 January 17, 2012 |
Lonato (ITA) Nicosia (CYP) Osijek (CRO) Concepción (CHI) |
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Teams | 366 | ![]() |
August 15–16, 2009 | Maribor (SLO) | ||||
Junior Men | Individual | 125 | ![]() |
June 14, 2007 | Lonato (ITA) |
References
- ↑ Vincent Hancock. sports-reference.com
- ↑ "Final Results: Men's Skeet Final". Beijing 2008 Official Website. Archived from the original on 2008-08-19. Retrieved 2008-08-16.
- ↑ "Olympics shooting: Vincent Hancock wins skeet gold medal". Retrieved 2012-07-31.
- ↑ "Vincent Hancock wins gold in skeet". ESPN. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
- ↑ Tim Hipps (July 31, 2012). "Hancock first Olympic champion to repeat in men's skeet". United States Army News Service. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
- ↑ David Segal (August 3, 2012). "They Win Gold, but a Pot of It Rarely Follows". The New York Times. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
- ↑ National Team. USA Shooting. Retrieved on 2016-08-13.
- ↑ "Athlete Biography: Vincent Hancock". Beijing 2008 Official Website. Archived from the original on 2008-08-19. Retrieved 2008-08-16.
External links
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