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“Women’s Sports Foundation Inducts Murdock”

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Map of New Zealand

Scope and Contents BOZEMAN CHRONICLE: “Foster makes Olympic team”. Named to the team after finishing second in the 3 X 20 rifle competition at Olympic shooting trials in Atlanta. Foster, 23, has been shooting since she was 9 years old, she was stunned to make the team. Foster was 1st Sat., 2nd Sun., and 3rd Mon., but all 3 days’ scores were combined to determine the Olympic team. She finished with an aggregate score of 1919.8, behind the 1928 scored by Elizabeth Bourland (TX). Scores were lower than expected,...

Scope and Contents U.S. Olympic Shooting Team Selected. Pg.4) Picture; Jean Foster and Elizabeth Bourland will represent the U.S. in women’s smallbore rifle 3 X 20. Also; (on the cover), Margaret Murdock and Lanny Bassham at the 1968 Olympics when they had tie scores of 1162, but Lanny won the tie breaker. However, when the American flag was raised at the award ceremony and the National Anthem played, Bassham pulled Margaret up to the top step of the medal winners’ platform where they stood side-by-side –...

Scope and Contents Sport Spotlight – Shooting. Shooting was a shoo-in at the Athens Games of 1896. Baron de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, was a marksman. There were 5 events at Athens; this summer in Atlanta, there will be 15, five for women. Number of competitors: 430 (300 men, 130 women). Competition Format: All athletes fire a qualification or preliminary round. The top 8 (rifle and pistol events) shoot a final round. In rifle and pistol finals, competitors fire 10 additional shots, with...

Scope and Contents Bozeman Daily Chronicle (July 14). Nothing on Foster. USA Today (July 19). Pg.2) Shooting: Former Olympian Jack Foster will miss the NRA National Smallbore Rifle Championships for the first time in 40 years. Wednesday, he’ll be watching daughter Jean Foster of Bozeman, MT, compete in the 3-position rifle competition. Pg.11E) U.S. Olympic Team. Women – Jean Foster, 23, 3-position rifle. Won gold in her event at ’96 North American championships. Silver medalist a NCAA Championships in ’94 for...

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Pg.11) Picture of Jean Foster – shooting in the standing position. The 50-meter smallbore rifle range, is partially indoors and partially outdoors. Each shooter has a TV screen to show their scores; no scopes needed here, and the shooting benches are adjustable for all 3 positions.

Scope and Contents Special category winner in Three-Position, won ’99 High Civilian honors and High Woman for the 2nd time this decade with 2286-90X. Heading (+ photo): “Wigger Impressive in Record – Setting Smallbore Prone Win”. Wigger took Smallbore Prone titles at Camp Perry in ’73, ’75, ’85, ’87, ’93, and ’97. And his record in Smallbore 3-poition is even more impressive, with overall championship wins from 1963 to 1992 (Twenty-one in all). To say he ranks as king in Smallbore over the past 3 decades at...