U.S. shooter Jeff Holguin (Yorba Linda, Calif.) captured the bronze medal today at the 2008 ISSF World Cup USA for Shotgun. Hakan Dahlby from Sweden claimed the gold and Great Britain’s Richard Faulds took the silver.

Dahlby, a 2004 Olympian and 2007 Santo Domingo World Cup Champion, finished in first place with a total score of 190 targets. Holguin, the 2007 Pan American Games silver medalist, and 2000 Sydney Olympic Games gold medalist Faulds finished the finals tied at 189 targets to force a shoot-off for the silver. In the shoot-off, Faulds shot 14 targets to Holguin’s 13 targets to take the silver, while Holguin claimed the bronze.

The Men’s Skeet final was held today at the 2008 ISSF World Cup USA for Shotgun, with Mexico’s Ariel Mauricio Flores taking home the gold medal, while Tore Brovold from Norway took the silver and Italy’s Valerio Luchini earned the bronze.

Flores, the 2007 Pan American Games bronze medalist, claimed the gold after shooting a perfect score of 25 targets in the final and finishing with a total score of 147 targets. Brovold took the silver with 146 targets and Luchini captured the bronze with a final score of 144(+2) after a shoot-off with Russia’s Valeriy Shomin, a 2004 Olympian and 2007 Changwon World Cup gold medalist.

Competition at the 2008 ISSF World Cup USA for Shotgun began today with the United States sweeping the medals in the Women’s Skeet event. Haley Dunn claimed the gold, while Kim Rhode took home the silver and Connie Smotek captured the bronze.

Dunn (Eddyville, Iowa), who is coming off a bronze medal win at the “Good Luck Beijing” 2008 ISSF World Cup Beijing claimed the gold medal finishing with a total score of 97 targets. Three-time Olympic medalist (1996 and 2004 gold medalist, 2000 bronze medalist) and 2008 U.S. Olympic Team member Rhode (El Monte, Calif.) finished right behind Dunn with 96 targets to claim the silver medal. Two-time Olympian Smotek (Bryan, Texas) and Italy’s Katiuscia Spada were tied at 92 targets at the conclusion of the final, with Smotek earning the bronze after an exciting shoot-off, hitting seven additional targets to Spada’s six.