In the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions 2016 Olympian Virginia Thrasher nearly grabbed the second American medal of Munich but just missed out on it finishing fourth. Thrasher was into the final narrowly, qualifying in the final of the eight spots with a 583. She won a center 10 tiebreaker with 22 compared to 18 for Eva Roesken of Germany in ninth place. In the final Thrasher wasn’t the greatest in her kneeling and prone shots and was in sixth heading to the elimination standing shots. She was already 4.4 points behind third place so the pressure was on to try and make up ground quickly. She did move up into fourth at the cut to sixth but was still 2.6 points behind third. Needing some major help to finish any higher she got some, but still would have needed some nearly perfect shots and ended up in fourth. It was the second fourth place finish by an American this year and the young Thrasher is definitely a contender in Rio. Rachel Garner had a better qualifying round shoot than her elimination round as she scored a 578 and finished 34th. Hanna Carr on the other hand went backwards and shot a 570 and finished 64th.

In the men’s 10m air pistol competition Will Brown and Jay Shi both were not as close to the top eight finalists as they had hoped to be. Brown was the closer of the two with a 580 but finished four points behind the finalists in 20th. Shi finished in 35th and scored a 577. Nickolaus Mowrer had a shot at being the top American but after being in the 96-98 range in the first five series he shot a 91 to wrap things up with a 576, 41st best.

In the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions 2016 Olympian Matthew Emmons was one of the best of the day scoring an 1183, second best in his relay and overall. Jacob Buchanan also advanced after shooting a 1155 and finishing 31st in his relay. William Shaner was eliminated after finishing 42nd with an 1143 in his relay. Wednesday will be the qualifying round and final for the top eight.

The final event to begin in Munich will be the women’s 10m air pistol.

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The US won their first medal of Munich on Monday and it wasn’t even from an Olympian in the event. The medal cam in the men’s 50m rifle prone thanks to the non-Olympian (at least in this event) Matthew Emmons. In the qualification round Emmons scored a 631.8, second best of the day, to qualify for the final. 2016 Olympian Michael McPhail nearly made it two in the final eight from the US with a 626.7, but that left him 13th and 0.7 behind the eighth place finisher. Emmons was fourth in the first stage of the final but moved into third after the fourth round of the second stage. Emmons had a lot of work to do to move into the top two and was eventually eliminated in third place, grabbing the bronze. The medal was the first by the US in the event in 2016 though Emmons made it fourth finalists and five top ten finishers.

In the 25m rapid fire pistol event 2016 Olympian Emil Milev improved on his 288 from the first day but only by a single point and moved up from 22nd to 20th, still finishing five points behind the top six final qualifiers with a 577. Alexander Chichkov also improved his score by a single point but jumped to 31st with a 571 total.

In the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions 2016 Olympian Virginia Thrasher was the best of the three Americans as all three qualified for the qualifying round. Thrasher shot a 577 to finish 12th in her relay. Not far behind her was fellow American Hanna Carr who shot a 574 and was 26th. Cutting it closest on qualification was Rachel Garner who scored a 571 and was second in the other elimination relay. Both Carr and Garner are participating in their first World Cup event of the year. On Tuesday the three Americans will compete in qualifying and attempt to reach the final which will be held later in the day.

Starting Tuesday, and wrapping up later in the day, will be the men’s 10m air pistol competition. Will Brown headlines the US athletes in the field. Brown has been fantastic at the world level so far in 2016 with a silver in Bangkok and a fifth place finish in Rio.

Also beginning will be the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions. 2016 Olympian Emmons, already with the bronze here in 50m prone, is a favorite to medal after a gold in Bangkok and a silver in Rio. There will only be a elimination relay on Tuesday.

Previous ISSF World Cup Munich Coverage:
Preview
Saturday Update
Sunday Update