Sarah Blakeslee

Sarah Christine Blakeslee (born May 16, 1985, in Vancouver, Washington) is an American sport shooter.[2] She won a silver medal in small-bore rifle three positions at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and was selected to compete for Team USA, as a 19-year-old at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[1] A former resident athlete of the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Blakeslee trained rigorously for the national rifle shooting team under the tutelage of David Johnson.[1][3]

For the American painter, see Sarah Blakeslee (painter).
Sarah Blakeslee
Personal information
Full nameSarah Christine Blakeslee
Nationality United States
Born (1985-05-16) 16 May 1985
Vancouver, Washington, United
States
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)10 m air rifle (AR40)
50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)
Coached byDavid Johnson (national)[1]
Medal record
Women's shooting
Representing the  United States
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place 2003 Santo Domingo STR3X20

Blakeslee's sporting debut in the worldwide scene came as an eighteen-year-old teen at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. There, she nailed down the silver in the rifle three positions at 668.2, losing the title to Cuba's Eglis Yaima Cruz by a slim 0.3-point deficit.[4] With a noteworthy runner-up finish and a specific qualifying standard required in the selection, Blakeslee secured an Olympic berth for Team USA on her first Games.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Blakeslee qualified for the U.S. shooting team in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, after finishing ahead of her teammate Morgan Hicks for first place at the Olympic trials in Fort Benning, Georgia four months earlier.[5][6] A less experienced to the international scene, Blakeslee marked a brilliant 197 in prone, 185 in standing, and 189 in the kneeling series to put up a much steadfast aim in a three-way tie with Cruz and Finland's Marjo Yli-Kiikka for twentieth place. Blakeslee's qualifying score of 571 was just eight points short of the final cutoff and six away from her Hicks, who placed twelfth.[7][8]

References
  1. "ISSF Profile – Sarah Blakeslee". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sarah Blakeslee". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  3. Judd, Ron (20 June 2004). "Notebook: Bade ready to cap off career". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  4. "Wednesday: Heymans wins gold in 10M diving". ESPN. 6 August 2003. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  5. "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  6. "Parker going to second straight Games". USA Today. 24 May 2004. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  7. "Shooting: Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  8. "How state Olympians fared at the Athens Games". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 29 August 2004. Retrieved 31 August 2015.


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