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Emmons wins silver in 50m prone rifle event

By ESPNOutdoors.com press services

Friday, August 15, 2008

BEIJING, China — Matt Emmons (Browns Mills, N.J.) won his second Olympic medal today when he took home the silver in the Men's 50m Prone Rifle Event at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Emmons, the 2004 Olympic gold medalist in prone, fired a match score of 597 out of a possible 600 points and entered the final in second place behind Ukraine's Artur Ayvazian, who had a qualification score of 599. Emmons scored 104.7 in the final round, finishing with a total of 701.7 to claim the silv ...

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