Lanny Bassham

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Olympic medal record
Men's shooting
Competitor for the United States
Gold	1976 Montreal	Small-bore rifle, 3 positions
Silver	1972 Munich	Small-bore rifle, 3 positions

Lanny Robert Bassham (born January 2, 1947) is an American sports shooter who competed and won a gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics, and also obtained silver in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1969, where he had participated in the ROTC program.^[1] In 1972, at the Munich Germany Olympic Games, Lanny Bassham failed in his attempt to win the gold medal in International Rifle Shooting. He had a mental failure resulting in his taking the silver instead. Frustrated, Lanny wanted to take a course in controlling the mind under pressure. After looking for such a seminar and not finding satisfaction, Bassham began to interview Olympic gold medallists to discover what they were doing differently to win.

Bassham created a system of mental control he called Mental Management. Within the next six years Lanny Bassham dominated his sport, winning 22 world individual and team titles, setting 4 world records and winning the coveted Olympic Gold Medal in Montreal in 1976.

For the past 31 years, Lanny has been teaching Mental Management to clients including the PGA and PGA tour players, Miss America finalists, World and Olympic champions, Fortune 500 companies, the United States Secret Service, the US Navy SEALS, the United States Army Marksmanship Unit, the US Marine Corps Marksmanship Unit, and the FBI.^[2]

References

↑ Lanny Bassham Hall of Honor
↑ Profile: "Lanny Bassham" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on January 13, 2008)

External links

Lanny Bassham biography and Olympic results, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-12-02.

v t e Olympic champions in men's 50 metre rifle three positions

1952: Erling Asbjørn Kongshaug 1956: Anatoli Bogdanov 1960: Viktor Shamburkin 1964: Lones Wigger 1968: Bernd Klingner 1972: John Writer 1976: Lanny Bassham 1980: Viktor Vlasov 1984: Malcolm Cooper 1988: Malcolm Cooper 1992: Hrachya Petikyan 1996: Jean-Pierre Amat 2000: Rajmond Debevec 2004: Jia Zhanbo 2008: Qiu Jian 2012: Niccolò Campriani

Persondata
Name	Bassham, Lanny
Alternative names
Short description	Former American Olympic shooter.
Date of birth	January 2, 1947
Place of birth	Comanche, Texas, United States
Date of death
Place of death

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