2008
16
Aug
Alaskan couple snags silver and gold medals in Beijing
Alaskans Matt and Katerina Emmons just got something else to talk about over dinner: their gold and silver medals in the Olympic shooting event.
The deadeye husband-wife tandem of shooters Matt and Katerina Emmons continued wearing out the path to the medals podium at the Beijing Summer Games.
Matt is a former University of Alaska Fairbanks shooter who lists both Fairbanks and Browns Mill, N.J., as his hometown. Katerina, his wife, shoots for the Czech Republic.
On Friday in Beijing, Matt won a silver medal in the 50-meter prone event, just behind Artur Ayvazian of the Ukraine. Four years ago in Athens, Greece, Emmons won gold in the same event.
He joins alpine skier Tommy Moe as the only Alaskans who have more than one Olympic medal. Moe captured a gold and silver as well, in the downhill and super-G races in the 1994 Winter Games.
After the competiton, Emmons walked over to the stands, where his wife rushed to embrace him.
From: oregonlive.com
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