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Nationality | American |
Born | Rome, New York [1] | February 28, 1997
Education | West Virginia University |
Height | 5 ft 1 in (155 cm) [2] |
Weight | 119 lb (54 kg) [2] |
Sport | |
Country | United States |
Sport | Shooting |
Events | |
University team | West Virginia Mountaineers |
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Virginia "Ginny" Thrasher [4] (born February 28, 1997) is an American sports shooter [5] who won a gold medal in the women's 10 meter air rifle at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She won the first gold medal awarded at the 2016 Olympics. [2] [6] [7]
Thrasher's gold medal came during the first time she had competed in the Olympics, beating two Chinese athletes, previous Olympic gold medalists Du Li and Yi Siling. [6] Thrasher's victory was considered a surprise as she had no major international competition experience prior to the 2016 Olympics. [8]
Before the 2016 Olympics, Thrasher wanted to be a figure skater. She has said she was never any good and by her freshman year of high school, she realized she had no future in it. She switched sports in 2011 after going hunting with her grandfather. [4]
Thrasher grew up in Springfield, Virginia, and graduated from West Springfield High School in 2015. She is the daughter of Roger and Valerie Thrasher and has older two brothers. She graduated summa cum laude from West Virginia University in 2019, where she majored in biomedical engineering. [9] [10] [11] [12]
Thrasher serves on the athlete advisory team for Country Roads Trust, a West Virginia-based company formed in 2022 to help student-athletes take advantage of their new ability to monetize their Name, Image, and Likeness. Other WVU alumni on the advisory team include former NBA player Jerry West, former NFL player Pat McAfee, and gymnast Jaida Lawrence Hart. [13]
Thrasher received the first gold medal awarded at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She qualified 6th in the first round of the women's 10m air rifle competition with a score of 416.3. She went on to win the final of that event with an Olympic Record score of 208.0, one point ahead of silver medalist Du Li of China.
Thrasher missed the finals of the 50m rifle three positions by one point, finishing with a score of 581.
Ginny Thrasher was a member of the West Virginia University Rifle Team from 2015-2019. During that time, she earned twelve All-American Honors as well as two NCAA individual titles and two team NCAA team titles. [14]
Kimberly Susan Rhode is an American double trap and skeet shooter. A California native, she is a six-time Olympic medal winner, including three gold medals, and six-time national champion in double trap. She is the most successful female shooter at the Olympics as the only triple Olympic Champion and the only woman to have won two Olympic gold medals for Double Trap. She won a gold medal in skeet shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics, equaling the world record of 99 out of 100 clays. Most recently, she won the bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics, making her the first Olympian to win a medal on five different continents, the first Summer Olympian to win an individual medal at six consecutive summer games, and the first woman to medal in six consecutive Olympics.
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