Texas' Vincent Hancock has three gold medals in skeet shooting and winning a fourth gold medal at the 2024 Olympics in Paris is his goal and dream.
. After London, he became the first Olympic skeet shooter to win gold medals in the same event in consecutive Olympic Games.His winning ways started early. Hancock started competing in skeet when he was just 11 years old. When he was 16, he won his first World Championship title in men’s skeet and went on to win the International Shooting Sport Federation’s Shooter of the Year award.Now the man, who many in the sport call the greatest of all time, trains at the facility he founded,.
He's chasing perfection in a sport with a target shot at about 50 miles per hour with less than a second to make a decision. Despite all the success, he never takes his chances for granted. Team USA skeet shooting will carry two men and two women. Hancock is one of those teammates. Two others are his students. Hancock coaches Olympian Austen Smith from Keller and Conner Prince of Burleson at his shooting complex. At the Paris Olympics, he will have the chance to win two gold medals for the first time, as he and Smith will participate in the mixed shooting competition.
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