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Full name | Austen Jewell Smith | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | July 23, 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Home town | Keller, Texas, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Sport shooter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Skeet shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Austen Jewell Smith (born July 23, 2001) is an American sports shooter and Olympian. [1] She holds a silver and bronze medal in skeet from the 2024 Paris Olympics, alongside a gold medal from the 2021 ISSF World Cup Shotgun held in Lonato, Italy. [2] [3]
She was the youngest member of the US Olympic shooting team for the 2020 Summer Olympics. [4] On August 4, 2024, she won the bronze medal in the women's skeet event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Francisca Crovetto Chadid won the gold, beating the British Amber Rutter in a tiebreaker at the Chateauroux Shooting Center. [5] She also won silver in the Mixed skeet event alongside Vincent Hancock. [6]
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