- Matthew Dryke
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Medal record 
Dryke in 1984.Men's shooting Competitor for the 
United StatesSummer Olympics Gold 1984 Los Angeles Skeet Matthew Alexander Dryke (born August 21, 1958 in Port Angeles, Washington) is a former American sports shooter. He competed and won a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics. He is two times world champion in skeet shooting, from 1983 and 1986, and obtained a silver medal in 1987.[1]
Accomplishments
1979 Pan American Games - silver - skeet
1979 Pan American Games - gold team - skeet- 1979 World Moving Target Championships - gold team - skeet (world record - team)
- 1981 Championships of the Americas - gold - skeet (world record)
- 1981 Championships of the Americas - gold team - skeet (world record - team)
- 1982 World Shooting Championships - gold team - skeet
- 1983 Pan American Games - gold - skeet (world record)
- 1983 World Moving Target Championships - gold - skeet
- 1983 World Moving Target Championships - gold team - skeet
- 1984 Olympic Games - gold - skeet[2]
- 1985 Championships of the Americas - gold - skeet
- 1986 World Shooting Championships - gold - skeet (world record)
- 1987 Pan American Games - gold - skeet
- 1987 World Clay Target Championships - silver - skeet
- 1988 Olympic Games - 24th - skeet[3]
- 1989 World Cup - Mexico City - gold - skeet
- 1989 World Cup - Osijek - gold - skeet
1989 World Cup - Suhl - bronze - skeet- 1992 World Cup - Los Angeles - gold - skeet
- 1992 Olympic Games - 6th - skeet[4]
References
- ^ "Shooting: World Championships: Men: Skeet". Sports123.com. http://sports123.com/sho/mw-sk.html. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ^ "Shooting at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Mixed skeet". Sports Reference LLC. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1984/SHO/mixed-skeet.html. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ^ "Shooting at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Mixed skeet". Sports Reference LLC. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1988/SHO/mixed-skeet.html. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ^ "Shooting at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Mixed skeet". Sports Reference LLC. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1992/SHO/mixed-skeet.html. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
External links
- Matthew Dryke biography and Olympic results, from http://www.sports-reference.com/.
- Matthew Dryke medals and stats, from http://databaseOlympics.com/.
Olympic champions in men's skeet 1968: Evgeni Petrov • 1972: Konrad Wirnhier • 1976: Josef Panáček • 1980: Hans Kjeld Rasmussen • 1984: Matthew Dryke • 1988: Axel Wegner • 1992: Zhang Shan1 • 1996: Ennio Falco • 2000: Mykola Milchev • 2004: Andrea Benelli • 2008: Vincent Hancock
1 From 1972 until 1992, the event was open to women as well as men. Zhang is the only woman to have won it.
Categories:- 1958 births
- Living people
- American sport shooters
- Skeet shooters
- Shooters at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic shooters of the United States
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic medalists in shooting
- American sport shooting Olympic medalist stubs
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