Tag Archives: Olympics

Gabriela “Gabby” Franco

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  • Author, speaker, competitive shooter, and instructor
  • first female shooter to represent Venezuela in the Olympics
  • 2001 – 9TH Place – World Cup – Atlanta, GA USA
  • 2002 – 3 Gold Medals – South American Games – Brazil
  • 2012 – Top Shot (season 4) on the History Channel
  • 2013 – Author 1st Book –  Troubleshooting: Mastering Your Pistol Marksmanship
  • 2013 – 2016 NRA New
  • 2014 – 2016 Host of NRA Show Tips & Tactics
  • 2014 – 2017 – Shooter for Remington Outdoors

https://www.gabbyfranco.com/

 

Paralympic Shooting

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founded 1976

  • 1976 Paralympic Shooting made debut at the 1st Paralympic Games
  • 1976, only 3 shooting events
  • 2020 = nine rifle & four pistol events
    both airguns and .22 caliber
  • 8 of 13 events are mixed gender
  • open to male and female athletes with physical disabilities
  •  governed by International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
  • 2019 Shooting was added to the program at the Para Pan American Championships (Lima, Peru)

United States Paralympic Shooting Team

  • has won 5 Paralympic medals
    1 gold
    1 silver
    3 bronze

USA Shooting
1 Olympic Plaza
Colorado Springs, CO 80909
(719) 866-4670

https://www.usashooting.org/about/paralympicshooting

Pat Spurgin

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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

Margaret Thompson Murdock

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First markswoman in history to win an Olympic medal
(men and women competed against her)

August 25, 1942

  • She learned how to shoot by following her father to the rifle range
  • Attended Kansas State University
  • competed on the Kansas State University men’s rifle team
    – winning two Big Eight Conference championships
    – the university’s first female student to earn a varsity letter
  • four-years in the U.S. Army,  assigned as a shooting instructor at Fort Benning, achieved the rank of major
  • 1966 World Champion in Women’s Standard Rifle
  • first woman to win an individual open World Shooting Championship
  • 1967 she won two gold medals in small-bore rifle at the Pan American Games and set a world record, for men or women, in the kneeling rifle shooting
  • 1976 first woman ever on the U.S. Olympic shooting team
  • 1976 silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics
  • first woman to win a medal in Shooting at the Summer Olympics
  • 1977 retired from competitive shooting at age 35 and become a registered nurse
  • 1992 named to the U.S. International Shooting Hall of Fame
  • In international competition Murdock set four individual world records and nine team world records
  • She is a member of five halls of fame, including
    USA Shooting Hall of Fame and Kansas Sports Hall of Fame

My first year at K-State, I couldn’t shoot on the team because I was a female. I could practice with the K-State team but I couldn’t be on the team. They got a new coach and he thought it would be a good idea for me to be on the team since I was shooting better than everyone else. ”
— Murdock, reminiscing in 2011

Franklin Orth

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May 11, 1907 – Jan 4, 1970

  • 1928 bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • 1931 law degree the University of Wisconsin Law School
  • World War II
    – rank of Colonel
    – served on the staff of General Frank Merrill in the jungles of Burma
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army.
  • 1959 – 1970 Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association (NRA)
  • 1964 supported banning the inexpensive, often low-quality, handguns known as Saturday night specials
    – supported limits on mail-order gun purchases
  • 1968 Gun Control Act

    – wrote in the American Rifleman
     “appear unduly restrictive and unjustified in their application to law-abiding citizens, the measure as a whole appears to be one that the sportsmen of America can live with.”

“We do not think that any sane American, who calls himself an American, can object to placing into this bill the instrument which killed the president of the United States.”

ISSF

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International Shooting Sport Federation is the governing body of the Olympic Shooting events in rifle, pistol and shotgun disciplines, and of several non-Olympic Shooting sport events

Founded: 1907

International Shooting Sport Federation is the international federation controlling Olympic-type shooting in the world. The ISSF was known as the International Shooting Union (UIT) from 1907 until 1998. They sanction the World Shooting Championships every four years, the Separate World Championships in Trap and Skeet every two years and the ISSF World Cups and ISSF World Cup Finals every year. Their rules are used in Continental Games like the Pan American Games and Continental Championships like the European Shooting Championships or the Championships of the America.

Karl Frederick

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Feb 2, 1881 – Feb 11, 1963

  • 1920 competed in Summer Olympics
    – won the gold medal in the individual free pistol event
    – won two gold medals as member of the American team in the team 50 metre free pistol competition
  • 1934 – 1935 President of the National Rifle Association
  • 1934 – testified during hearings on the National Firearms Act

 

“I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I seldom carry one. I have when I felt it was desirable to do so for my own protection. I know that applies in most of the instances where guns are used effectively in self-defense or in places of business and in the home. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses

“I believe in regulatory methods. I think that makes it desirable that any such regulations imposed should not impose undue hardships on the law-abiding citizens and that they should not obstruct him in the right of self-defense, but that they should be directed exclusively, so far as possible, to suppressing the criminal use, or punishing the criminal use of weapons.”