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}} Karen Patricia "Pat" Spurgin (later Pitney, born August 10, 1965) is an American sports shooter, now living in Fairbanks, Alaska. Born in Billings, Montana, she competed and won a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics.〔(Profile: "Pat Spurgin" ) ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on January 13, 2008)〕 She became the first Olympic Champion in Air Rifle for Women, at the time being an 18-year-old student at Murray State University, Kentucky. Pat Pitney has volunteered as an assistant coach for the Alaska Nanooks at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for almost two decades. The team has won the NCAA Rifle Championship nine times since 1994. The ''Pat Spurgin Rifle Range'' in Murray, Kentucky is named after her.〔(SPURGIN RIFLE RANGE ) (Retrieved on January 13, 2008)〕 ==Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games== Pat was selected as one of torchbearer for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay. She took a travel of 3 100 miles on the biggest Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker "50 Let Pobedy" to the North Pole, where the crew ignited the cauldron.〔(Olympic flame's trip to North Pole (photos) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pat Spurgin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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