Margaret Murdock

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from left to right: Margaret Murdock, Lanny Bassham and Werner Seibold at the 1976 award ceremony in Montreal

Margaret Murdock (born Margaret Thompson on August 25, 1942 in Topeka ) is a former marksman from the United States . In 1976, she became the first female Olympic medalist in sport shooting.

Career

Margaret Thompson graduated from Kansas State University in 1965 and then joined the US Army . In 1977 she graduated from Washburn University as a nurse .

At the 1966 World Championships in Wiesbaden, Margaret Thompson won silver in prone shooting behind the Pole Eulalia Zakrzewska in the women's competitions, and the Poles also won the team competition ahead of the US team. In the three-position battle, Thompson won both individually and with the team. Margaret Thompson was also part of the American team in the rifle disciplines. In the three-position fight with the free rifle over 300 meters, the US team won with Gary Anderson , John Foster , Margaret Thompson and Lones Wigger . Together with Gary Anderson, Thomas Pool and Lones Wigger, Thompson also won team gold in the small bore three-position fight. In the same line-up, the team also won gold in the kneeling position and bronze in the standing position.

In 1967 Thompson won two gold medals at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg. In the kneeling position, she set a world record with 391 points. This made her the first woman across all sports to set a world record that was better than the men's world record.

At the World Championships in Phoenix in 1970, she entered after her marriage as Margaret Murdock. She won the individual standings in the 300 meter standing in front of her compatriots John Foster and John Writer . With Writer, Foster and Lones Wigger, she won the team championship in the standing position and in the three-position fight with the free rifle and silver in the kneeling position. In the women's competitions, she won the three-position battle in both the individual and the team classification.

Four years later at the World Championships in Thun, Murdock won the team classification of the small-bore three-position competition and small-bore standing shooting together with Lanny Bassham , John Writer and Lones Wigger. She won team silver in prone and kneeling shooting. In the women's competitions, she won bronze in the three-position battle, but won in the prone position in both the individual and team rankings. At the Pan American Games in Mexico City in 1975 , she won the three-position battle and two team competitions.

At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Margaret Murdock competed in the small-bore three-position battle. Lanny Bassham and Margaret Murdock both scored 1,162 points and were two points ahead of third-placed Werner Seibold from the Federal Republic of Germany. The decision between Bassham and Murdock was made because of Bassham's better result in the last series. At the award ceremony, Bassham and Murdock stood together on the top podium. Margaret Murdock was the first Olympic medalist in shooting, eight years after her Olympic medal in 1984 in Los Angeles women's competitions were included in the Olympic program.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ World Championships rifle disciplines women on sport-komplett.de
  2. ↑ World Championships rifle disciplines on sport-komplett.de
  3. ↑ World Championships small bore rifle on sport-komplett.de
  4. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 626, note 303
personal data
SURNAME Murdock, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thompson, Margaret (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American marksman
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Topeka