Nick Mowrer

Nick Mowrer
Personal information
Full name Nickolaus Mowrer
Nationality  United States
Born (1988-09-14) 14 September 1988
Miles City, Montana
Residence Colorado Springs, Colorado
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 93 kg (205 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air pistol (AP60)
50 m pistol (FP)
Club U.S. Olympic Training Center[1]
Coached by Sergey Luzov[1]

Nickolaus Mowrer (born September 14, 1988 in Miles City, Montana) is an American sport shooter.[1][2] He is a three-time NRA Intercollegiate Pistol Champion in the free pistol (FP), a 2011 U.S. pistol shooting champion, and also, a resident athlete of the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, under his personal coach Sergey Luzov.[1][3][4] At the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, Mowrer missed out of the medal by 5.5 points behind second runner-up Júlio Almeida of Brazil in the men's free pistol, with a total score of 634.4 (545 in the preliminary rounds and 89.4 in the final).[5]

Mowrer qualified for the men's 50 m pistol, along with his teammate Daryl Szarenski, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, after placing second and edging out former Olympian Brian Beaman from the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Fort Benning, Georgia, with a final score of 1,855.5.[6][7] Mowrer scored a total of 558 points in the qualifying rounds by a single inner ten behind Thailand's Jakkrit Panichpatikum, finishing only in fifteenth place.[8][9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Nick Mowrer". London 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  2. "Nick Mowrer". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  3. Jillson, Kyle (7 June 2012). "Montana NRA Pistol champion makes Olympics". NRA Blog. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  4. Eamon, Sean (19 August 2011). "Mowrer claims national title". The Montana Standard. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  5. "ISSF Profile – Nick Mowrer". ISSF. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  6. Eamon, Sean (3 June 2012). "Mowrer makes Olympics team". The Montana Standard. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  7. "Szarenski and Mowrer to Represent the USA in Men's 50m Free Pistol in London". USA Shooting. 2 June 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  8. "Men's 50m Pistol Qualification". London 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  9. "Butte's Mowrer Just Misses Olympic Finals". KXLF-TV. 5 August 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.


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