Early Achievements:
Glenn Eller was born in 1982, and it didn't take him very many years to learn that he was good with a scattergun. Glenn's a deer and bird hunter, and certainly the bird hunting helped him improve his shotgun skills. He started winning big in 1994 when he became US National Sporting Clay subjunior champion, and apparently he never looked back.Glenn was the first American to ever win the junior title in the British Open Sporting Clay competition, in 1996. By 1998 he was winning Gold and Silver medals in National and Junior Olympic championships.
Glenn Eller At the Olympics:
In 2000, Glenn won the Gold at the National Championships and after a pre-game bout with food poisoning, went on to place 15th at the Sydney Olympics. In 2004 a false-positive drug test proved to be a snag at the Athens Olympics, and he finished in 17th place.By 2008, Glenn had joined the US Army as a member of the US Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU) and had improved his shooting immensely. He demonstrated this by placing first in the Olympic trials, and then winning a Silver medal in Beijing at the "Good Luck Beijing" World Cup event, a test held to ensure smooth operation at the site of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Hmmm, What Else?:
In high school, Glenn competed in pole vaulting. He had already been shooting seriously under a coach's supervision since the age of eight. Glenn's a hunter who pursues both deer and birds.USA's First Shooting Gold of the 2008 Olympics:
Glenn finally had the chance to prove what he could do without food poisoning or erroneous drug tests, when he won the Gold medal in Men's Double Trap. While he was at it, he set a couple new Olympic records... first with a qualifying score of 145, and again with a final score of 190.Glenn's Gold medal was the USA's first in shooting at the 2008 games, and the USAMU's first since 1984.
Good job, Glenn.
