Vincent Hancock
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Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Port Charlotte, Florida, U.S. | March 19, 1989|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Skeet | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | U.S. Army | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vincent Charles 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 (with a then Olympic record) [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 qualified for the Olympic team and represented 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 | 2017 | 2018 | |
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Olympic Games | Not held | Gold 121+24 |
Not held | Gold 123+25 |
Not held | 15th 119 |
Not held | |||||||
World Championships | 123+25 |
Not held | Bronze 123+24 |
Not held | Gold 124+25 |
5th 123+24 |
67th 119 |
— | 10th 121 |
9th 121 |
Gold 122(16)+16 |
— | — | Gold 125+59 |
Pan American Games/COTA | Gold 121+25 |
Not held | Gold 122+25 |
Not held | — | Not held | Gold 122+25 |
Not held | — | Not held | — | Not held | — | Not held |
World Cup 1 | Gold 124+25 |
— | 28th 118 |
4th 121+21 |
— | 4th 122+24 |
7th 122 |
11th 121 |
Gold 123+59 |
— | Gold 125(16)+16 |
4th 121(14)+14 |
— | Gold 123+59 |
World Cup 2 | Silver 124+24 |
5th 120+24 |
— | — | 10th 121 |
33rd 119 |
4th 122+24 |
— | 12th 120 |
4th 123(15)+14 |
5th 122(14) |
— | Gold 123+59 | |
World Cup 3 | Gold 123+25 |
— | Gold 125+25 |
Gold 123+24 |
— | 4th 123+21 |
— | — | — | 41st 119 |
44th 117 |
Bronze 123(15)+16 |
— | Gold 123+56 |
World Cup 4 | Gold 124+25 |
— | — | — | 10th 117 |
Bronze 122+25 |
69th 116 |
— | 33rd 119 |
— | Gold 124(16)+15 |
— | — | |
World Cup Final | Silver 123+25 |
NQ | DNS | Silver 123+24 |
Silver 122+21 |
— | — | Silver 122+24 |
— | — | Silver 123(16)+15 |
5th 121(14) |
— |
Records
Current world records held in skeet[8] | ||||||||
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Men | Qualification | 125 | Valerio Luchini (ITA) Vincent Hancock (USA) Georgios Achilleos (CYP) Anthony Terras (FRA) Tammaro Cassandro (ITA) Riccardo Filippelli (ITA) Ralf Buchheim (GER) Vincent Hancock (USA) Vincent Hancock (USA) Luke Argiro (AUS) Luigi Lodde (ITA) Emmanuel Petit (FRA) |
9 July 2014 9 March 2015 27 April 2015 17 September 2015 10 June 2016 10 July 2016 10 July 2016 14 September 2018 25 March 2019 14 April 2019 22 August 2019 14 September 2019 |
Beijing (CHN) Acapulco (MEX) Larnaka (CYP) Lonato (ITA) San Marino (SMR) Lonato (ITA) Lonato (ITA) Changwon (KOR) Guadalajara (MEX) Al Ain (UAE) Lahti (FIN) Lonato (ITA) |
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Final | 60 | Angad Vir Singh Bajwa (IND) Vincent Hancock (USA) Tomáš Nýdrle (CZE) Luigi Lodde (ITA) |
6 November 2018 25 March 2019 6 July 2019 12 October 2019 |
Kuwait City (KUW) Guadalajara (MEX) Lonato (ITA) Al Ain (UAE) |
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Teams | 371 | Italy (Filippelli, Lodde, Rossetti) | July 10, 2016 | Lonato (ITA) | edit | |||
Junior Men |
References
- ^ Vincent Hancock. sports-reference.com
- ^ "Final Results: Men's Skeet Final". Beijing 2008 Official Website. Archived from the original on August 19, 2008. Retrieved August 16, 2008.
- ^ "Olympics shooting: Vincent Hancock wins skeet gold medal". Retrieved July 31, 2012.
- ^ "Vincent Hancock wins gold in skeet". ESPN. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
- ^ 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 August 13, 2016.
- ^ "Athlete Biography: Vincent Hancock". Beijing 2008 Official Website. Archived from the original on August 19, 2008. Retrieved August 16, 2008.
External links
- 1989 births
- Living people
- People from Port Charlotte, Florida
- Sportspeople from Columbus, Georgia
- American male sport shooters
- United States Army soldiers
- Skeet shooters
- United States Distinguished Marksman
- World record holders in shooting
- Shooters at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Olympic shooters of the United States
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in shooting
- Olympic medalists in shooting
- Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games medalists in shooting
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States