The final major stop of the international shooting sports season lands in Doha, Qatar, this week, where the 2025 ISSF World Cup Final gathers the year’s top rifle, pistol and shotgun competitors. For USA Shooting, it’s a chance to extend a strong run that has stretched from the Olympics in Paris to October’s ISSF Shotgun World Championship in Athens. It’s also a preview of how American talent is stacking up as the next Olympic quad begins to take shape.
The U.S. delegation features 11 athletes, anchored by familiar names who have won just about everything the sport offers. Vincent Hancock, the four-time Olympic champion in men’s skeet, arrives as the reigning world champion after reclaiming the crown in Athens. Samantha Simonton did the same on the women’s side, part of a U.S. sweep of the individual skeet titles and both skeet team events. Their golds helped fuel a six-medal performance that reminded the rest of the shotgun world that American depth remains a constant.
Kim Rhode—still competing, still contending, still collecting medals long after most peers have retired—returns to the ISSF World Cup Final with the six-time Olympic medalist’s usual presence: steady, unhurried and impossible to ignore. Glenn Eller brings his own history of big-stage experience, arriving with a mixed team trap bronze from Athens alongside partner Ava Downs.
The rifle contingent adds its own Olympic shine. Sagen Maddalena, silver medalist in women’s 50m 3-position rifle at Paris 2024, continues a steady rise that has made her one of the discipline’s most technically precise performers. Mary Tucker, who earned mixed team air rifle silver with Lucas Kozeniesky at the Tokyo 2020 Games, enters the week with the poise of a shooter who has already found success under the heaviest lights.
The ISSF World Cup Final remains an exclusive event—an end-of-season summit where qualification runs through ISSF World Cup victories or the year’s ranking points. Every athlete on the start lists arrives because they won something meaningful or accumulated enough consistency to earn a spot. Finals in all events will follow current ISSF rules, with medalists collecting prize money and, more importantly for many, a marker for where they stand heading into 2026.
For Team USA, the week is less about pressure and more about timing. The shooters who have already proven themselves on international podiums are using Doha as confirmation that their form still holds. Younger athletes, or those rising from strong performances this season, see it as a chance to measure themselves against the elite fields the ISSF World Cup Final produces.
USA Shooting Roster – 2025 ISSF World Cup Final (Doha, Qatar)
- Sam Simonton – Women’s Skeet
- Dania Vizzi – Women’s Skeet
- Kim Rhode – Women’s Skeet
- Christian Elliott – Men’s Skeet
- Dustan Taylor – Men’s Skeet
- Vincent Hancock – Men’s Skeet
- Carey Garrison – Women’s Trap
- Will Hinton – Men’s Trap
- Glenn Eller – Men’s Trap
- Sagen Maddalena – Women’s 50m 3-Position Rifle
- Mary Tucker – Women’s 10m Air Rifle
The U.S. team has arrived with momentum. Doha now offers the year’s last test—one more chance to close 2025 with a few more ISSF medals.
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