Tokyo medalist Mary Tucker among first U.S. shooters to qualify for Paris Olympics
Tokyo silver medalist Mary Tucker is going back to the Olympics as one of the first five shooters to qualify for the U.S. team for Paris.
Tucker, a 22-year-old, fifth-year West Virginia senior, won the Olympic Trials women's air rifle competition that concluded with the third and final stage this weekend in Anniston, Alabama.
In Tokyo, Tucker placed sixth in the individual air rifle and earned silver in the mixed-gender team event with Lucas Kozeniesky.
Sagen Maddalena, who was fifth in the Tokyo Olympic smallbore rifle event, was second to Tucker in the air rifle trials to qualify for her second Games.
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Neither 2022 World champion Ali Weisz nor 2016 Olympic gold medalist Ginny Thrasher made the air rifle team for Paris. Both could still make it in the smallbore event but trail going into the third and final stage of Olympic Trials in March.
In air pistol, Lexi Lagan qualified for her second Olympics after placing 38th in Tokyo. She's joined on the team by 22-year-old Katelyn Abeln, an Ohio State graduate student.
Montana native Ivan Roe won the men's air rifle at trials to qualify for his first Olympics.
The mixed-gender team air rifle is the first medal final of the Paris Games starting at 10:30 a.m. ET the day after the Opening Ceremony.
