Pat Spurgin
 Pat Spurgin in 1984 | ||
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Competitor for the  United States
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| Gold | 1984 Los Angeles | Air rifle |
Pat Spurgin (later Pitney, born August 10, 1965) is an American sports shooter, now living in Fairbanks, Alaska. She competed and won a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics.[1] She became the first Olympic Champion in Air Rifle for Women, at the time being an 18 year old student at Murray State University, Kentucky.
Pat Pitney has volunteered as an assistant coach for the Alaska Nanooks at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for almost two decades. The team has won the NCAA Rifle Championship nine times since 1994.
The Pat Spurgin Rifle Range in Murray, Kentucky is named after her.[2]
Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games
Pat was selected as one of torchbearer for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay. She took a travel of 3 100 miles on the biggest Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker "50 Let Pobedy" to the North Pole, where the crew ignited the cauldron.[3]
References
- ↑ Profile: "Pat Spurgin" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on January 13, 2008)
- ↑ SPURGIN RIFLE RANGE (Retrieved on January 13, 2008)
- ↑ Olympic flame's trip to North Pole (photos)
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