Glenn Eller
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| Full name | Walton Glenn Eller III | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 6, 1982 Houston, Texas, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Trap | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Walton Glenn Eller III[1] (born January 6, 1982) is an American trap shooter and five-time U.S. Olympic athlete (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016). At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal in men's double trap setting both an Olympic Record and a Final Olympic Record.[2][3]
Eller was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Clara Anne (née Rackley) and Walton Glenn Eller, Jr. He attended James E. Taylor High School in Katy, a suburb of Houston.[4][5] In 1996, Eller was the first American to win the British Open Sporting Clay junior title. In 1994, he was the U.S. National Sporting Clay subjunior champion.[6]
Additionally, Glenn Eller is a Sergeant First Class in the United States Army. He is part of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU), stationed at Ft. Benning, Georgia.[6]
Olympic results
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| Event | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 |
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| Double trap | 12th 133 |
17th 127 |
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gold 145+45 |
22nd 126 |
14th 131 |
Records
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| Men | Teams | 424 | File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy (Innocenti, Bernasconi, Gasparini) File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy (Barillà, Di Spigno, Gasparini) |
August 3, 2013 September 14, 2014 |
Suhl (GER) Granada (ESP) |
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References
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External links
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- Glenn Eller at the International Shooting Sport FederationLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- USA Shooting profile Archived July 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- Army Olympic Team
- Army Bio Archived February 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
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- 1982 births
- Living people
- American male sport shooters
- United States Army soldiers
- Sportspeople from Katy, Texas
- Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in shooting
- Trap and double trap shooters
- Olympic medalists in shooting
- Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Houston
- Shooters at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Shooters at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in shooting
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- 21st-century American sportsmen
- American sport shooting Olympic medalist stubs