Chris Rice (sport shooter)

Not to be confused with Chris Rice or Christopher Rice.

Chris Rice
Personal information
Full nameChristopher Rice
Nationality United States Virgin Islands
Born (1959-12-26) December 26, 1959 (age 64)
Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)10 m air pistol (AP60)
50 m pistol (FP)
ClubVirgin Island Shooting
Federation[1]
Coached byWill Henderson[1]

Christopher Rice (born December 26, 1959, in Saint Thomas) is a sport shooter from the United States Virgin Islands.[2] He has been selected to compete for the Virgin Islands as a lone pistol shooter in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and has won a bronze medal in free pistol at the 2001 American Continental Championships in Fort Benning, Georgia, United States.[1] Rice also trains under head coach Will Henderson for the Virgin Island Shooting Federation.[1]

Rice's Olympic debut came at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he finished thirty-ninth in the air pistol, and twenty-seventh in the free pistol, producing aggregate scores of 560 and 548 respectively.[3][4][5]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Rice qualified for his second Virgin Islands team in both air and free pistol. He had granted a tripartite invitation in the air pistol from ISSF, after having recorded a personal best of 569 out of a possible 600 to finish tenth at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic one year earlier.[1][6] In his first event, the 10 m air pistol, Rice fired a score of 560 to finish in a distant forty-sixth position from an enormous field of forty-seven shooters, just nine points short of his personal best.[7] Three days later, in the 50 m pistol, Rice registered the lowest score of the meet at 529 points to round out the field with Namibia's Friedhelm Sack for forty-first place.[8]

  1. ^ a b c d e "ISSF Profile – Chris Rice". ISSF. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Chris Rice". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  3. ^ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's 50m Pistol" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 62–64. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  4. ^ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's 10m Air Pistol" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 59–61. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  5. ^ "Nancy Johnson wins first gold of Sydney Games". Canoe.ca. September 16, 2000. Archived from the original on July 13, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
  6. ^ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  7. ^ "Shooting: Men's 10m Air Pistol Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. August 15, 2004. Retrieved January 31, 2013.
  8. ^ "Shooting: Men's 50m Pistol Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. August 15, 2004. Retrieved January 31, 2013.