Rebecca Snyder (sport shooter)

Rebecca Snyder
Personal information
Full name Rebecca Nicole Snyder
Nickname(s) Beki
Nationality  United States
Born (1976-07-15) 15 July 1976
Didsbury, Alberta, Canada
Residence Colorado Springs, Colorado
Grand Junction, Colorado[1]
Height 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight 77 kg (170 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air pistol (AP40)
25 m pistol (SP)
Coached by Sergey Luzov[1]
Medal record
Women's shooting
Representing the  United States
Pan American Games
1999 Winnipeg AP40

Rebecca Nicole "Beki" Snyder (born July 15, 1976 in Didsbury, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian-born American sport shooter.[2] She is a four-time Olympian, a silver medalist for pistol shooting at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[1]

Shooting career

Snyder, a native of Grand Junction, Colorado, began rifle shooting with her brother and father as a family sport, until she switched to a more compact pistol at age fourteen. She later became a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOC) in Colorado Springs, and eventually attended the University of Colorado, where she pursued her business degree.[3][4]

Since she moved to Colorado as a member of USOC, Snyder had competed in numerous shooting tournaments, and achieved five gold medals in both air and sport pistol at the USA Shooting National Championships.[3] Between 1999 and 2000, Snyder reached her breakthrough in shooting, when she captured two gold medals for the 10 m air pistol, and bronze for the 25 m sport pistol at the ISSF World Cup series in Atlanta, Georgia, and in Sydney, Australia, respectively.[1] She also competed for all pistol shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, but she neither reached the final round, nor claimed an Olympic medal.[3][5]

Twelve years after competing in her first Olympics, Snyder qualified for her fourth U.S. shooting team, as a 32-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing second in the air and sport pistol from the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Fort Benning, Georgia.[6][7] She placed forty-first out of forty-four shooters in the women's 10 m air pistol by one point behind Albania's Lindita Kodra, with a total score of 370 targets.[8] Three days later, she competed for her second event, 25 m pistol, where she was able to shoot 287 targets in the precision stage, and 288 in the rapid fire, for a total score of 575 points, finishing only in twenty-eighth place.[9][10]

Olympic results

Event 1996 2000 2004 2008
25 metre pistol — 10th
580		 21st
574		 28th
575[10]
10 metre air pistol 30th
372		 25th
376		 16th
380		 41st
370

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "ISSF Profile – Rebecca Snyder". ISSF. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Beki Snyder". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "Women's Sport Net – Rebecca Snyder". Women's Sport Net. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  4. ↑ Looney, Douglas (23 June 2000). "Beki Snyder aims for the Sydney Olympics". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  5. ↑ "Two make U.S. Olympic pistol team". AP News Archives. 23 June 2000. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Beyerle, Fong in the Lead Women's 3-Position Rifle at 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials". The Shooting Wire. 21 May 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Callahan, 56, earns 4th trip to the Olympics". The Associated Press. USA Today. 15 May 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  8. ↑ "Women's 10m Air Pistol Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  9. ↑ "Women's 25m Pistol Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  10. 1 2 "Callahan finishes 25th, Snyder Takes 28th Place in Women’s 25m Pistol". Team USA. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
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