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USA Shooting Mourns Passing of World’s Oldest Olympian & Hall of Famer Walter Walsh
just six days shy of his 107th birthday.
On January 18,
2013 he became the world’s oldest Olympian eclipsing another American Olympian, Rudolf Schrader. The USA Shooting Hall
of Fame proudly inducted Walsh along with Pat (Spur- gin) Pitney into its ranks at an induction ceremony Sep- tember 21, 2013 in Colora- do Springs.
Clear and simple, Walter It is with tremendous
sadness that USA Shooting report that 1948 Olympian Walter Walsh passed away in his Northern
Virginia
home on Tuesday, April 29 with his family by his side,
Walsh is an American Hero, all parts athlete, warrior, lawmaker, coach, husband and father.
On the occasion of hear-
ing his father had been in- ducted into USA Shooting’s Hall of Fame last year, his
son and one of fi ve children, Walter Walsh, Jr., had this to say in his honor. “Dad never attached
much importance to praise or sought it. His typical com- ment at such times was, ‘I was just one who was at that place and time to do a job as well as I could, noth- ing more.’ Any celebrity he gained never changed his being the faithful Marine “Semper Fidelis” or mea- suring up to the FBI’s “Fi- delity Bravery Integrity”, as well as he could. He strove to be the Olympian, “Citius, Altius, Fortius”, but was as gracious in losing as win- ning. Happily, his children, grands and greats share in
the recognition of who Dad is, his accomplishments and importantly, his consistent moral character that estab- lished a high standard for us.”
The USA Shooting family
extends its condolences to the entire Walsh family.
To read more about
Walter Walsh and his life as previously published in USA Shooting News, please follow the QR link below.
USA Deaf Shooting Seeking Male and Female Shooters
The USA Deaf Shooting is seeking deaf/hard of hear- ing and hearing loss indi- viduals, who are interested in participating in shooting competition leading up to the 2017 Summer Deafl ym- pics which will take place in Ankara, Turkey on July, 2017. To be eligible for selec- tion, a bona-fi de athlete
must be an U.S. citizen by November 1, 2008 and a registered athlete member of the USA Deaf Sports Fed- eration, USA Deaf Shooting and NRA. To be eligible for par- ticipation in competitions for the hard of hearing, an athlete must have a hear- ing loss of 55 decibels (dB)
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or greater in the better ear (three frequency pure tone average at 500, 1000, and 2000 Hertz [Hz]) to be eli- gible to participate in the tryouts and the Deafl ympics. The events include 10m air gun using .177 caliber, 25m pistol and 50m rifl e and pistol using .22 cali- ber. If you are interested in
participating please contact the secretary of USA Deaf Shooting, Inc.
E-mail: rsoboleski@usadeaf-
shooting.org
Video Phone: 860-378-8160
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