Glenn Eller
![]() Eller in 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Walton Glenn Eller III | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Houston, Texas, U.S. | January 6, 1982|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Trap | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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
[edit]Event | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 |
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Double trap | 12th 133 | 17th 127 | ![]() 145+45 | 22nd 126 | 14th 131 |
Records
[edit]Current world records held in double trap | ||||||
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Men | Teams | 424 | ![]() ![]() | August 3, 2013 September 14, 2014 | Suhl (GER) Granada (ESP) | edit |
References
[edit]- ^ "U.S. Army Olympians | Pvt. First Class Walton Eller III". Archived from the original on August 12, 2008.
- ^ "Results Men's Double Trap Qualification & Shoot-Off". Beijing 2008 Official Website. August 12, 2008. Archived from the original on August 15, 2008. Retrieved September 9, 2008.
- ^ "Final Results Men's Double Trap Final". Beijing 2008 Official Website. August 12, 2008. Archived from the original on August 15, 2008. Retrieved September 9, 2008.
- ^ "Hall of Honor - 2016". Archived from the original on February 25, 2020. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- ^ "Eller". freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
- ^ a b "Walton (Glenn) Eller". USA Shooting. Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved September 9, 2008.
External links
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- Glenn Eller at the International Shooting Sport Federation
- USA Shooting profile Archived July 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- Army Olympic Team
- Army Bio Archived February 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine