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Gary Anderson, former Nebraska Guardsman, donates his 1964 Olympic gold medal winning rifle to the Nebraska National Guard Museum in Seward, Nebraska, Dec. 27, 2024. Anderson used the rifle to lead the U.S.A. marksmanship team to two 300-meter World Championship Gold Medals. He also used it to win a gold medal in the 1963 Pan American Games in the 300-Meter (3x40) free rifle event with a score of 1,146, just one point shy of the world record at the time.
It was the same rifle that Anderson used to win a Gold Medal at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 1964., the first of two consecutive Olympic Golds the Axtell, Nebraska, native earned in the 1960s while also serving as a Nebraska Army Guard engineering officer In Hastings and Grand Island.
(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Gauret Stearns)
| Date Taken: | 12.27.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 01.03.2025 14:29 |
| Photo ID: | 8821892 |
| VIRIN: | 241227-Z-VY191-1003 |
| Resolution: | 6379x4253 |
| Size: | 2.47 MB |
| Location: | NEBRASKA, US |
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