Junior World Champion joins the Wiley X Elite Shooting Team
Wiley X, the world’s leading manufacturer of protective eyewear, is continuing to sign World Champions to
its Elite Shooting Team with 19-year-old Dane Jonas Prip Christensen the latest to join. Jonas has just
been named World Champion in compact shooting and is a young man who is no stranger to that winning
feeling.
In 2013 he won the European Team Championship in the technical difficult discipline Compact Shooting.
He repeated this fantastic win in 2014, together with existing Wiley X team members Jakob Iversen and
Mikkel Lund Jensen, and in 2015 he crowed his young career by winning the individual World
Championship for juniors in Estonia. Jonas claimed the World Championship by hitting 194 out of 200
difficult clay targets.
Jonas explains: “I’m extremely proud to be joining the Wiley X Elite
Shooting Team, as this team holds some of the best shooters in the
World. As a prescription wearer I look very much forward be able to
benefit from the expertise of Wiley X and I’m confident Wiley X will be
able to provide me with prescription eyewear that will give me an extra
edge when competing.”
Beside of being a World Champion Jonas is also a keen hunter and he is often out in the great outdoors
hunting.
Jonas continues: “I enjoy hunting and I often find piece and strength
being out in nature. Being a young hunter I will try to influence all
hunters as well as all clay shooters to wear eye protection.
Unfortunately, I have witnessed more than once, how close you can
get to losing your eyesight when you are not wearing the right eye
protection. By teaming up with Wiley X I have found the perfect
partner – for both my professional career as well as when I’m
hunting.”
Jonas will be an important signing for Wiley X as the company’s European Vice President and Outdoor
director Thomas Wæver explains: “I have followed Jonas for a couple of years now and I’m very
impressed with him and his high level of shooting as well as the way he is dictated to his sport. For Wiley
X it is essential to work with the best of the best and in Jonas we have person who will provide us with
useful information on our hunting as well as on our shooting eyewear. I can hardly wait to begin working
with Jonas and to gain from his expertise.”
ABOUT WILEY X
Wiley X is one of the leading manufacturers of protective eyewear in the world and the only premium
sunglass brand whose entire sunwear line is ANSI Z87.1-2010 and EN.166 rated.
Wiley X provides protective eyewear to military units and law enforcement personnel all around the world
including the US Navy, US Army and D.E.A., as well as many European forces.
To help prescription lens users Wiley X has carefully chosen one of the leading lens manufacturers to
provide high quality prescription lenses, which fully comply with European safety standards.
WILEY X SHOOTS FOR A HIGHER STANDARD
When it comes to hunting and shooting no amount of protection is too much. As an ISO 9001:2008
business Wiley X meet a higher standard than competitors’ “marketing claims.” Per required specifications
and as outlined by ISO 9001:2008 and ANSI Z87.1 standards Wiley X continue to meet the highest
Ballistic Impact Standards. Wiley X products are put through rigorous testing in order to be EN.166
Certified and full ANSI Z87.1 rated. Wiley X is the only premium performance manufacturer of hunting and
shooting eyewear whose entire line is ANSI rated and EN.166 certified.
All Wiley X eyewear models for hunting and shooting
meet or exceed MIL-PRF-32432 VO Ballistic Impact
Standards for spectacles. The Ballistic standard
requires that both frame and lens must withstand a
3.8 mm projectile fired at 700-720 km/h.
Wiley X Europe LLC contact person for this press release:
Mr. Thomas Wæver • E-mail; [email protected] • Phone: +45 22 17 49 50