Roman Barrett and Taylor Dale gave the United States a gold-medal finish in Trap Mixed Team on the last day of the 2026 FISU World University Championship Shooting Sport. The ISSF’s October 31 closing report records a winning final score of 34 targets in Chinese Taipei.
The mixed-team podium
Italy’s Francesco Di Mari and Gaia Ragazzini took silver with 27, while Spain’s Mar Molné Magriña and Daniel Fernández de Vicente earned bronze with 21. Those figures are the final totals reported for this event. They should not be combined with qualification scores or used to compare unrelated competition formats.
A university championship reaches its conclusion
The five-day championship brought together competitors from 19 countries and regions across rifle, pistol and shotgun. ISSF reports more than 270 athletes and team officials combined. That total describes participants in those two roles together; it is not a count of athletes alone.
The closing day also included the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team final. The Republic of Korea’s Joung Woo Jin and Kim Ju Ri took that title, according to the same closing report. The two mixed-team finals were separate events with different scoring systems.
Read the result at the event level
A concise medal report is most useful when it keeps names, discipline and stage together. In this case, Barrett and Dale’s result belongs specifically to the university championship’s mixed trap final. It is not a claim about another world championship or a different national-team selection process.
Readers looking beyond a headline should use the result reference supplied by the event’s governing body and confirm that the names and event heading match. Gunfire’s Shooting Sports archive covers other competitions; Behind the Trigger explores athlete perspectives. Source published October 31; verified November 2, 2026.
Archive venue context: Toronto International Trap and Skeet Club, a 2015 Pan American Games venue. This is not the 2026 FISU event or a photograph of Barrett and Dale. Displayed at reduced size. Photo: Somxho / Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shooting2015pan.jpg License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 Sources checked November 2, 2026.
Sources & further reading
Original source publication: 2026-10-31.
Sources reviewed 2026-11-02.
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