![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TeamUSALogo-300x148.jpg\" "\\"TeamUSALogo\\"")
The last pistol event of the 2012 Olympic Games featured a glimpse of a promising young career and the likely end of another for Team USA as 38 competitors competed in the 50-meter Free Pistol event Sunday, the sports longest running and arguably most difficult event.<\/p>\n
On the penultimate day of Shooting competition at the Royal Artillery Barracks, Nick Mowrer<\/strong> (Butte, Mont.) came up just short in his first Olympic competition while four-time Olympian Daryl Szarenski <\/strong>(WCAP\/Seale, Ala.) walked off the range disappointed after a 28th <\/sup>place finish and will literally sail away and put an end to his competitive shooting career.<\/p>\n Mowrer shot a 558\/600 and missed a shoot-off for the last of the eight final positions by one point for 15th overall position.\u00a0 Mowrer was consistent in all but one string (10 shots) averaging a 93 over the six strings.\u00a0 However, a third string 90 likely undid any finals hopes for Mowrer despite ending his London Games with a final 95.<\/p>\n \u201cI think I went out there and tried my best and gave it my all,\u201d Mowrer said. \u201cToday, sadly, my all wasn\u2019t quite good enough. I felt like I fought hard all day.\u00a0 It kept getting better and better but it didn\u2019t get better and better fast enough.\u201d<\/p>\n Szarenski shot a 550 and finished in 28th place.\u00a0 In contention through his first three strings, the Army Sergeant First Class had his qualification fall apart during shots 31-50 where he shot \u00a0177\/200 including a couple ill-placed 7s.<\/p>\n \u201cI was a little bit too careful today,\u201d said Szarenski. \u201cIt basically comes down to I didn\u2019t shoot enough tens.\u00a0 Getting to the Olympics is a journey. It was fun. I worked really hard for this one and I had much higher expectations. It didn\u2019t work out.\u201d<\/p>\n A member of the USA Shooting National Team since 1993, Szarenski\u2019s career ended on a positive note when he shot a last string 95.\u00a0 Still, when asked what\u2019s next, the avid sailor was quick to reply:\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m going sailing and I\u2019m retiring from the military.\u00a0 This is it.\u201d<\/p>\n Just one event, the Men’s Three-Position Rifle, remains in the shooting competition at the 2012 Olympic Games. Team USA’s Matt Emmons<\/strong> (Browns Mills, N.J.) and Jason Parker<\/strong> (Omaha, Neb.) will be on the line trying to earn the team’s fourth medal of these Games.<\/p>\n Leading the charge is Emmons who has two Olympic medals overall and 20 World Cup medals in this his signature event but no Olympic medal to show for it after final shot heartbreaks in each of the last two Olympic Games.\u00a0 Armed with confidence, uncanny knowledge and an unprecedented work ethic, he has the tools necessary to reverse fate in London but only if the ailments and health issues that have plagued him since 2010 subside.<\/p>\n The four-time Olympian Parker comes into the event with perhaps his best medal chance as the world\u2019s No. 3 ranked shooter.\u00a0 After giving up the air rifle after Beijing, Parker\u2019s sole concentration on three-position has paid off and comes into London having won the season\u2019s final World Cup in Munich.<\/p>\n Italian Niccol\u00f2 \u201cNicco\u201d Campriani, a 25-year old athlete from Florence, is the No. 1 ranked athlete in this event. The young Italian leads the world ranking after his great successes during the last Olympic cycle. Campriani \u2013 who left Italy to study and train at West Virginia University, has participated in the 13 World Cups, World Cup Finals and World Championship events since 2009, making it to 11 finals. And when Nicco competes in a medal match, he most certainly makes it to the podium, as numbers can confirm. Out of eleven 50m Rifle 3 Positions finals, Campriani won eight medals, including two gold. His best qualification result (1180 points) and his best final (101.1 points) speak for themselves.<\/p>\n Following Emmons and Nicco, a number of skilled shooters are looking forward to the London Games, and to a spot in the final. Among them,\u00a0Korean ace Han Jinseop, who entered nine finals and finished four times on the podium between 2009 and 2012.<\/p>\n Slovenia\u2019s Rajmond Debevec, an eight-time Olympian\u00a0who started his series of successes in 1984, earned a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games.<\/p>\n Format:<\/strong>\u00a0 In the qualification, shooters fire 40 shots each in prone, standing and kneeling positions.\u00a0 The highest scoring ring is 10.4mm in diameter at a distance of 50m. The time allowed is 45 minutes for prone, 75 minutes for standing and 60 minutes for kneeling.\u00a0 The finals consist of 10 shots from the standing position within a time limit of 75 seconds per shot.<\/p>\n Qualification<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 09:00 am \u2013 12:20 pm (London time)<\/p>\n Finals<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 1:45 pm (London time)<\/p>\n Television:<\/strong>\u00a0 11:30am \u2013 12:00 pm NBC Sports Network<\/a>\u00a0OR\u00a0NBC LiveExtra Webcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last pistol event of the 2012 Olympic Games featured a glimpse of a promising young career and the likely end of another for Team USA as 38 competitors competed in the 50-meter Free Pistol event Sunday, the sports longest running and arguably most difficult event. On the penultimate day of Shooting competition at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2597,165],"tags":[2330],"class_list":["post-15693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shootingsports","category-usa-shooting","tag-usa-shooting-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}