Madison Champion

Para Rifle

Date of birth:

09/02/2001

Hometown:

Greenville, Texas

Biography:

Madison Champion is a Greenville, Texas, native who go into the sport of shooting through her high school Junior ROTC team. She shot for the varsity team and joined the Dallas Shooting Stars club.

Champion competed in her first USA Shooting Junior Olympic National Championships in 2019 and quickly excelled, breaking five Civilian Marksmanship Unit national records that year. She became a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado in early 2022.

She competed in her first international competition in 2022 and has her sights set on a Paralympic Games debut in Paris 2024.

Competition Highlights:

  • 2024 WSPS New Delhi Cup: Bronze, Team R4 10m Air Rifle SH2 Standing; Earned the U.S. a Paralympic quota in R4 10m Air Rifle Standing SH2; Silver, R11 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team SH2 Standing
  • 2023 Parapan American Team
  • 2022 Winter Air Gun Championships: Silver, R4 10m Air Rifle; Silver, R5 10m Air Rifle- (Colorado Springs location)
  • 2020 USA Shooting National Junior Olympic Championships: Gold, R4, Silver, R5
  • 2019 USA Shooting National Junior Olympic Championships: Gold, R4, Silver, R5