Deena Lynn Wigger (born August 27, 1966) is a retired

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, she is the daughter of the Olympic shooter

Lones Wigger Lones Wesley Wigger Jr. (August 25, 1937, Great Falls, Montana – December 14, 2017, Colorado Springs, Colorado) was an American sports shooter. Wigger was a member of the United States Olympic team on three occasions, winning two Olympic Gol ...

. She placed 10th in the 10 m air rifle shooting event at the

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. Wigger won a total of four gold medals at the Pan American Games in 1983–1995. She also won one gold, two silver and two bronze medals at the 1986 and 1990 World Championships. In 1989 she broke the world record for air rifle with 389 of 400. Wigger attended college at

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in Kentucky, helping them win an NCAA team championship. After the 1988 Olympics, she joined the Wyoming Air National Guard, and then the US Air Force, where she served as a medical technician and an assistant shooting coach at the

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. In 1996 she was named the

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