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| Full name | Walton Glenn Eller III | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1982-01-06) January 6, 1982 (age 42) Houston, Texas, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Trap | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Walton Glenn Eller III (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.
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. 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.
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.
Olympic results
| Event | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 |
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| Double trap | 12th 133 |
17th 127 |
 Gold145+45 |
22nd 126 |
14th 131 |
Records
| Current world records held in double trap | ||||||
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| Men | Teams | 424 |  Italy (Innocenti, Bernasconi, Gasparini) Italy (Barillà, Di Spigno, Gasparini)
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August 3, 2013 September 14, 2014 |
Suhl (GER) Granada (ESP) |
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References
- "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.
- ^ "Walton (Glenn) Eller". USA Shooting. Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved September 9, 2008.
External links
- 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
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