Vincent Hancock

Vincent Hancock
	Hancock at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Born	March 19, 1989 (age 35); Port Charlotte, Florida, U.S.
Height	172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport	Shooting
Club	U.S. Army
Medal record
Representing the United States
Olympic Games

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	2012	2013	2016
Olympic Games	Not held			Gold 121+24	Not held		Gold 123+25	Not held	15th 119
World Championships	Bronze 123+25	—	Bronze 123+24	Not held	Gold 124+25	Not held
Pan American Games/COTA	Gold 121+25	Not held	Gold 122+25	Not held	—	Not held
World Cup 1	Gold 124+25	—	28th 118	4th 121+21	—	4th
World Cup 2	Silver 124+24	5th 120+24	—	—	10th 121	4th
World Cup 3	Gold 123+25	—	Gold 125+25	Gold 123+24	—	—
World Cup 4	Gold 124+25	—	—	—	10th 117	Gold
World Cup Final	Silver 123+25	NQ	DNS	Silver 123+24		—

Records

Current world records held in skeet^[8]
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)	edit
	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)	edit
	Teams	371	Italy (Filippelli, Lodde, Rossetti)	July 10, 2016	Lonato (ITA)	edit
Junior Men Template:Shooting WR SK125 Junior Men Individual

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. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "Olympics shooting: Vincent Hancock wins skeet gold medal". Retrieved 2012-07-31.
^ "Vincent Hancock wins gold in skeet". ESPN. Retrieved 2012-07-31. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ 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. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

External links

[sr-1] Vincent Hancock. sports-reference.com

[Men'sSkeetFinal-2] "Final Results: Men's Skeet Final". Beijing 2008 Official Website. Archived from the original on 2008-08-19. Retrieved 2008-08-16. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[3] "Olympics shooting: Vincent Hancock wins skeet gold medal". Retrieved 2012-07-31.

[4] "Vincent Hancock wins gold in skeet". ESPN. Retrieved 2012-07-31. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[Army-5] Tim Hipps (July 31, 2012). "Hancock first Olympic champion to repeat in men's skeet". United States Army News Service. Retrieved August 4, 2012.

[NYT-6] David Segal (August 3, 2012). "They Win Gold, but a Pot of It Rarely Follows". The New York Times. Retrieved August 4, 2012.

[7] National Team. USA Shooting. Retrieved on 2016-08-13.

[BeijingBio-8] "Athlete Biography: Vincent Hancock". Beijing 2008 Official Website. Archived from the original on 2008-08-19. Retrieved 2008-08-16. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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v t e Olympic champions in men's skeet
1968: Yevgeni Petrov (URS) 1972: Konrad Wirnhier (FRG) 1976: Josef Panáček (TCH) 1980: Hans Kjeld Rasmussen (DEN) 1984: Matthew Dryke (USA) 1988: Axel Wegner (GDR) 1992: Zhang Shan¹ (CHN) 1996: Ennio Falco (ITA) 2000: Mykola Milchev (UKR) 2004: Andrea Benelli (ITA) 2008: Vincent Hancock (USA) 2012: Vincent Hancock (USA) 2016: Gabriele Rossetti (ITA) 2020: Vincent Hancock (USA)
¹ From 1972 until 1992, the event was open to women as well as men. Zhang is the only woman to have won it.