Hancock at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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Born |
Port Charlotte, Florida, U.S. |
March 19, 1989 ||||||||||||
Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||
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Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||
Club | U.S. Army | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vincent Hancock (born March 19, 1989) is an American shooter and Olympic athlete who won the gold medal in the men's skeet at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He is the first skeet shooter to repeat as the Olympic champion.
In 2005, at age of 16, Hancock won his first World Championship title in men’s skeet and went on to win the prestigious International Shooting Sport Federation’s Shooter of the Year award. Hancock also won World Championships in 2009 and again in 2015. Vincent has qualified for the Olympic team and will be representing the United States in Rio in 2016.
Hancock was born in Port Charlotte, Florida, but now resides in Fort Worth, Texas, with his wife, Rebekah and their daughters, Bailey and Brenlyn.