Lones Wigger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Sport shooter and soldier
Date of Birth: 25-Aug-1937
Place of Birth: Great Falls, Montana, United States
Date of Death: 14-Dec-2017
Profession: sport shooter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About 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 Gold Medals.
- He also served in the U.S.
- Army as a lieutenant colonel. Wigger is often regarded as having been the greatest competitive rifle shooter ever to have taken aim for the United States.
- He made every Olympic Shooting Team between 1968 and 1980, he held or co-held 27 world records – 14 team and 13 individual.
- He won 58 National Championships of almost every variety beginning in 1963.
- He was a member of 16 major U.S.
- international teams, starting with the 1963 Pan-American Games and his record includes: 22 World Championships (two individual, 20 team); seven Pan-American titles; 18 victories in the Championship of the Americas meet; 16 victories in the Council Internationale Sport du Militaire meet; and in those four meets, plus the Olympics, he won 108 medals. Wigger was a member of the Olympic shooting team in 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1980.
- The 1964 effort resulted in a gold medal.
- He won the gold for the three position small-bore rifle with a score of 1164, and also won a silver medal for small-bore rifle, prone position with a score of 597.
- In 1972, Wigger won the gold medal for free rifle, 3 position, with a score of 1155.Wigger was on the United States Army Marksmanship Unit, and competed in international matches representing the United States for 20 years.
- He was inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame in June 2008.He ran the 23rd Infantry Division Sniper School in Vietnam in 1971.
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