Offutt Pinion
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | March 23, 1910 Floyd County, Kentucky, United States | ||||||||||||||
| Died | September 30, 1976 (aged 66) Contra Costa County, California, United States | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Sports shooting | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
Offutt Pinion (March 23, 1910 – September 30, 1976) was an American sport shooter who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics winning a bronze medal in the 50 m pistol event.[1] He lived at various times in San Francisco, New Jersey, Ohio, and Kentucky.[citation needed]
According to the official Olympics website:
"Offutt Pinion was a navy shooter in 1956 and contended with some horrible conditions to win the bronze medal in free pistol. The day of the event was very cold, with winds gusting up to 30 miles per hour. However, Pinion used some great wind doping to overcome one bad string of 88 and win the bronze medal. This was in his first international competition, although he had been All-Navy champion in 1956 and northwest regional champion in 1951 and 1952."[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Offutt Pinion". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
- ^ "Offutt Pinion". olympics.com. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  | This article about a sport shooting Olympic medalist of the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- 1910 births
- 1976 deaths
- American male sport shooters
- ISSF pistol shooters
- Shooters at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in shooting
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- People from Floyd County, Kentucky
- Sportspeople from Kentucky
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American sport shooting Olympic medalist stubs