USA Shooting Athletes Earn 10 Medals At 2024 ISSF Junior World Championships

USA Shooting brings home impressive medal haul from the 2024 ISSF Junior World Championships held in Peru from Sept. 26-Oct. 7.

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at USA Shooting posted on October 10, 2024
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The U.S. Men’s and Women’s Skeet Teams with their medals from the 2024 ISSF Junior World Championships, held Sept. 26 to Oct. 7 in Lima, Peru.
Photo by Brittany Nelson

USA Shooting athletes earned 10 medals—including one gold—at the 2024 International Shooting Sport Federation Junior World Championships held in Lima, Peru, from September 26 to October 7.

Braden Peiser
With a final score of 460.3, USA Shooting athlete Braden Peiser won the men’s 50m rifle 3-position event gold medal at the 2024 ISSF Junior World Championships in Lima, Peru, on Tuesday, October 1. (Photo by Brittany Nelson)

 

More than 30 rifle, pistol and shotgun athletes competed at the 2024 ISSF Junior World Championships. Athletes qualified for the team through selections matches conducted earlier this year. Among the 10 medals earned by USA Shooting athletes is Braden Peiser’s gold in the men’s 50m rifle 3-position event, garnering him the 2024 Junior World Championship title.

“It is a bit surreal,” Peiser said about his big win. “I have been in a lot of finals and quite a few international finals. I was enjoying this final and the chase. It was fun sitting in second or third and knowing I had some work to do.”

This year’s competition is the fifth ISSF Junior World Championships that Peiser has competed in and his first individual gold medal. In addition, he earned bronze at this year’s competition in men’s 10m air rifle, as well as a silver medal in the men’s 10m air rifle team event.

Team USA also reached the podium in multiple team events this year. Five of the medals earned were in team events, including bronze in mixed team skeet, gold in men’s skeet team, bronze in women’s skeet team and silver in women’s 10m air rifle team.

Katie Zaun
USA Shooting athlete Katie Zaun claimed the bronze medal in the women’s 10m air rifle event. (Photo by Brittany Nelson)

 

Besides Peiser’s gold medal performance, individual medals were earned by Katie Zaun, who earned bronze in the women’s 10m air rifle event, Gracie Hensely with silver in women’s skeet and Benjamin Keller with silver in men’s skeet.

Keller, who hails from Johnstown, Colorado, has been racking up International Shooting Sport Federation World Championship medals over the last few years. He earned gold in men’s skeet at the 2022 and 2023 competitions. Keller, who is 19 years old, has more than 10 international medals and is looking to compete in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

The world champion team athletes also made a handful of appearances in event finals. Griffin Lake of Emmaus, Pennsylvania, shot in the men’s 50m rifle 3-position final and finished in sixth place. Additionally, Tyler Wee, of Wake Forest, North Carolina, joined Lake in the final and was ranked eighth on the leaderboard.

Benjamin Keller & Gracie Hensely
Left: Benjamin Keller earned silver in the men’s skeet event at the 2024 ISSF Junior World Championships. Right: Gracie Hensely on the podium after securing the women’s skeet event silver medal. (Photos by Brittany Nelson)

 

Karsyn Ross of Seguin, Texas, and Madeline Corbin of Reedsburg, Wisconsin, both advanced to the women’s skeet final where they placed sixth and fifth, respectively. Plus, Keller, along with Fayth Layne of Columbia, Tennessee, competed in the mixed skeet team bronze medal match and took fourth place.

Emme Walrath of Kenosha, Wisconsin, made an appearance in the women’s 50m rifle 3-position final and landed in fourth place.

Below is a breakdown of the medals earned by USA Shooting athletes at the 2024 International Shooting Sport Federation Junior World Championships.

  1. Braden Peiser: bronze, men’s 10m air rifle
  2. Braden Peiser, Tyler Wee and Jacob Wisman: silver, men’s 10m air rifle team
  3. Katie Zaun, Emme Walrath and Kenzie Kring: silver, women’s 10m air rifle team 
  4. Gracie Hensley: silver, women’s skeet
  5. Benjamin Keller: silver, men’s skeet
  6. Katie Zaun: bronze, women’s 50m rifle 3-position
  7. Jordan Sapp, Benjamin Keller and Joshua Corbin: gold, men’s skeet team
  8. Gracie Hensley, Fayth Layne and Madeline Corbin: bronze, women’s skeet team
  9. Madeline Corbin and Jordan Sapp: bronze, mixed team skeet
  10. Braden Peiser: gold, men’s 50m rifle 3-position

You can view the full results of the 2024 Junior World Championships at the ISSF website.

Up next for USA Shooting is the 2024 International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup Final, scheduled for October 13-18 in New Delhi, India.

Learn more about USA Shooting at usashooting.org.

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