Pat Spurgin

first markswoman in history to win Olympic Gold medal

  • Born in Billings, Montana
  • now living in Fairbanks, Alaska
  • competed and won a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
  • the first Olympic Champion in Air Rifle for Women
    while a student at Murray State University, Kentucky
  • Pat Spurgin Rifle Range in Murray, Kentucky is named after her
  • 2014  torchbearer for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay
  • 2014 appointed as director of the Alaskan Office of Management and Budget