Rifle: Anti Takes Silver
August 23, 2004 10:52 AM | General
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MARKOPOULO, Greece – Former West Virginia University shooter Mike Anti won a silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in the 50 Rifle 3-Position event.
Anti, a 1987 NCAA champion at WVU, scored 1,261.1 points, just 1.4 points shy of claiming the gold. Anti could have taken the gold if not for being assessed two penalty points for taking an extra shot in the kneeling position portion of the competition.
“I actually fired an extra shot by mistake,” Anti told the Associated Press. “I had no clue at the time I was doing it. I was trying to concentrate on shooting 10.
“When you do that, you have a monitor in front of you, but you don’t really concentrate on all the information that the monitor is giving you. You just look for your shot.”
Anti’s silver medal is the first won by a WVU shooting alumnus since Etzel brought home the gold for the U.S in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Sprinter James Jett is the last West Virginia University product to medal in the Olympics as a member of the gold-medal winning 4x100-meter relay team in the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Spain.
Zhanbo Jia of China won the gold.
Anti is a native of Columbus, Ga.
Tajen from publiched reports
