PARIS, France — Vincent Hancock, an Eatonton native who's one of the most dominant shooters in Olympic history, added to his medal count Monday with the first team medal of his Olympic career.
Hancock, 35, earlier in the Olympics won gold in the men's skeet competition -- the fourth time he's won the event at the Olympics. That made him one of only eight athletes in Olympic history to win the same event four times.
On Monday, competing in the mixed team skeet event, he and Austen Jewell Smith won silver -- narrowly missing out on gold against the Italian duo of Diana Bacosi and Gabriele Rossetti.
Hancock was successful on 23 of his 24 shots. Smith, the bronze medalist just a day earlier in the women's individual skeet competition, hit on 21 of 24 shots.
Her Italian counterpart Bacosi hit 22 of 24 shots and Rossetti equaled Hancock with 23 out of 24 to get the edge for gold.
In the individual men's skeet final, Hancock hit the target on 58 of 60 shots to beat out fellow American Conner Lynn Prince.
Hancock won gold in the individual men's skeet competition in Tokyo in 2021, London in 2012 and Beijing in 2008 as well. He was a gold medalist last year in the mixed team event at the World Championships.
