Sandra Fong

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Sandra Fong
Personal information
NationalityFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Born (1990-04-15) April 15, 1990 (age 33)
New York, New York, U.S.
Height5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)
Weight126 lb (57 kg)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s)10 m air rifle (AR40)
50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)
ClubRidgewood Rifle Club [1]
Coached byDavid Johnson (national) [2]

Sandra Fong (born April 15, 1990, in New York, New York) is an American Olympic sport shooter. [3]

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She is a multiple-time American junior record holder, and a three-time medalist (one gold and two silver) for the small-bore rifle prone and rifle three positions at the U.S. National Shooting Championships. [4] At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Fong competed in the women's 50 m rifle 3 positions, finishing in 21st place. She won a gold medal, as a member of the U.S. rifle shooting team, at the 2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Munich, Germany. [5]

Family life and education

Fong was born and raised on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York by her parents Nicole Bergman, an attorney, and Yuman Fong, a resident surgeon at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, emigrating from Hong Kong. [6] She began rifle shooting with her siblings and father as a family sport. Her older sister, Abigail Fong, is a past U.S. national shooting champion, a member of the Princeton University rifle team, and a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. [7] Her younger sister, Danielle Fong, who has cerebral palsy, is a member of the U.S. Paralympic team (Beijing, 2008). [8]

In 2008, Fong graduated from Hunter College High School in Manhattan, where she also competed for track and field and swimming. [1] She attended Princeton University as a pre-medicine student and theater and anthropology major, and eventually joined her sister Abigail to become a member for the University's rifle shooting club, graduating in 2013. [9] [10] She attended the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, after having been admitted to Mount Sinai in her sophomore year at Princeton. [10] She is currently a general surgery resident at Massachusetts General Hospital.

She is Jewish, and is a member of Temple Shaaray Tefila in New York City. [11] [12]

Shooting career

Since beginning the sport, Fong had competed in numerous shooting tournaments, where she achieved junior records and top finishes for the small-bore rifle prone and rifle three positions, including three medals (one gold and two silver) at the U.S. National Shooting Championships (2006–08). [4]

At the age of eighteen, Fong reached her breakthrough in shooting, when she edged out her sister Abigail by three tenths of a point (0.3) in the rifle three positions at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Fort Benning, Georgia, with a score of 672.7 points. [13] Finishing second from the trials, she guaranteed a qualifying place for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, as the youngest member of the U.S. shooting team. [8]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Fong competed in the women's 50 m rifle 3 positions, along with her teammate Jamie Beyerle. She was able to shoot 196 targets each in prone and kneeling position, and 185 in standing, for a total score of 577 points, finishing in twenty-first place. [14]

Two years after competing in her first Olympics, Fong captured two silver medals for the small-bore rifle prone and rifle three positions at the 2010 Championships of the Americas (CAT Games) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2] She also helped the U.S. rifle shooting team (along with Jamie Beyerle and Amy Sowash) win the gold medal, and set a world record of 1,758 points at the 2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Munich, Germany. [5] [15]

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  9. ↑ Tucci, Peter (October 2, 2008). "Sniper sisters shoot round the world". Daily Princetonian. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
  10. 1 2 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 17, 2014. Retrieved December 17, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ↑ "Yuman Fong | the Jewish Week". Jewish Week. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 1, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Jewish Marksmanship: Jewish Olympic Shooter Sandra Fong Tweets; Visits Israel". August 22, 2012.
  13. ↑ "Beyerle, Fong in the Lead Women's 3-Position Rifle at 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials". The Shooting Wire. May 21, 2008. Retrieved January 6, 2013.[ permanent dead link ]
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