{"id":4440,"date":"2010-07-02T23:28:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=4440"},"modified":"2010-07-04T02:38:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T07:38:58","slug":"sgt-mcphail-good-to-be-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/sgt-mcphail-good-to-be-gold\/4440\/","title":{"rendered":"SGT McPhail: Good to be Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4441\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4441\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4441\" title=\"mcphain\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mcphain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mcphain.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mcphain-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">50m Rifle Prone Men Awards: 2nd Guy STARIK (ISR) 702,2 - 1st Michael MCPHAIL (USA) 702,8 - 3rd Christian PLANER (AUT) 701,5<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sergeant (SGT) Michael McPhail is now an international champion for  the first time in 2010.  SGT McPhail earned his first World Cup  medal\u2014gold\u2014today in Men\u2019s 50m Rifle Prone.  McPhail entered the final  with an outstanding 599 points, just one point ahead of teammate Matt  Emmons.  Emmons overtook SGT McPhail heading into the tenth shot, and  then marked a disappointing 9.0, which removed him from medal  contention.  SGT McPhail remained on top, with just six-tenths of a  point lead and a final score of 702.8 points.  Also competing for the  USA was SFC Eric Uptagrafft with 596 points in 11th place.<\/p>\n<p>National Rifle Coach Dave Johnson praised his team as he said, \u201cThe  guys all shot well in difficult wind conditions.  Mike did a great job  in the final and absolutely earned his first gold in a commanding  performance.  Matt was just off the podium this time in prone, but I&#8217;m  proud of all three guys and the whole team so far in Serbia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For all scores, additional photos, video interviews, match feeds, and  immediate results, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issf-sports.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ISSF Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Want action updates sent directly to your phone or email?  Subscribe  to US Rifle National Coach Dave Johnson&#8217;s Twitter account at his handle<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/OlympicSho\" target=\"_blank\"> OlympicSho.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ELEY is a Proud Sponsor of the USA Shooting Rifle and Pistol Teams:  ELEY Limited, manufacturer of the world\u2019s most consistently accurate  rimfire ammunition, has been the Official Sponsor and Official Supplier  of .22 rimfire ammunition of the USA Shooting rifle and pistol teams  since 2000. For more information on ELEY and their products, please  visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eley.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">www.eley.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Marco Dalla Dea (c) 2010 ISSF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergeant (SGT) Michael McPhail is now an international champion for the first time in 2010. SGT McPhail earned his first World Cup medal\u2014gold\u2014today in Men\u2019s 50m Rifle Prone. McPhail entered the final with an outstanding 599 points, just one point ahead of teammate Matt Emmons. Emmons overtook SGT McPhail heading into the tenth shot, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,165],"tags":[788,3608],"class_list":["post-4440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa-shooting","tag-sergeant-sgt-michael-mcphail","tag-usa-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440","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=4440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}