Chris Rice (sport shooter)
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Christopher Rice |
| Nationality |
 United States Virgin Islands |
| Born |
26 December 1959 Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Shooting |
| Event(s) |
10 m air pistol (AP60) 50 m pistol (FP) |
| Club |
Virgin Island Shooting Federation[1] |
| Coached by | Will Henderson[1] |
Christopher "Chris" Rice (born December 26, 1959 in Saint Thomas) is a sport shooter from the United States Virgin Islands.[2] He has been selected to compete for the Virgin Islands as a lone pistol shooter in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and has won a bronze medal in free pistol at the 2001 American Continental Championships in Fort Benning, Georgia, United States.[1] Rice also trains under head coach Will Henderson for the Virgin Island Shooting Federation.[1]
Rice's Olympic debut came as the oldest athlete of the Virgin Islands delegation (aged 41) at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he finished thirty-ninth in the air pistol, and twenty-seventh in the free pistol, producing aggregate scores of 560 and 548 respectively.[3][4][5]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Rice qualified for his second Virgin Islands team in both air and free pistol. He had granted a tripartite invitation in the air pistol from ISSF, after having recorded a personal best of 569 out of a possible 600 to finish tenth at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic one year earlier.[1][6] In his first event, the 10 m air pistol, Rice fired a score of 560 to finish in a distant forty-sixth position from an enormous field of forty-seven shooters, just nine points short of his personal best.[7] Three days later, in the 50 m pistol, Rice registered the lowest score of the meet at 529 points to round out the field with Namibia's Friedhelm Sack for forty-first place.[8]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "ISSF Profile – Chris Rice". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ↑ "Chris Rice". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ↑ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's 50m Pistol" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 62–64. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
- ↑ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's 10m Air Pistol" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 59–61. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
- ↑ "Nancy Johnson wins first gold of Sydney Games". Canoe.ca. 16 September 2000. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
- ↑ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ↑ "Shooting: Men's 10m Air Pistol Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ "Shooting: Men's 50m Pistol Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.