Rebecca Snyder (sport shooter)

Rebecca Snyder

Personal information
Full name	Rebecca Nicole Snyder
Nickname(s)	Beki
Nationality	United States
Born	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 Competitor for 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. "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. "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. "Callahan finishes 25th, Snyder Takes 28th Place in Women’s 25m Pistol". Team USA. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2013.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile