Deena Wigger

{{Short description|American sport shooter (born 1966)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2020}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Deena Wigger

| image = Deena and Lones Wigger.jpg

| caption = Deena training with her father, circa 1980

| full_name = Deena Lynn Wigger

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|8|27}}

| birth_place = Great Falls, Montana, U.S.

| death_date =

| death_place =

| height = 162 cm

| weight = 51 kg

| sport = Sports shooting

| event = Rifle

| coach = Lones Wigger

| show-medals = yes

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalCountry|{{USA}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}

{{MedalGold|1983 Caracas|50 m prone, ind.}}

{{MedalGold|1983 Caracas|50 m prone, team}}

{{MedalGold|1987 Indianapolis|50 m prone, ind.}}

{{MedalBronze|1987 Indianapolis|10 m air, ind.}}

{{MedalGold|1995 Mar del Plata|50 m 3 positions, ind.}}

{{MedalWorldChampionships}}

{{MedalBronze|1986 Suhl|10 m air, ind.}}

{{MedalBronze|1986 Suhl|50 m 3 positions, team}}

{{MedalGold|1990 Moscow|10 m air, team}}

{{MedalSilver|1990 Moscow|50 m 3 positions, ind.}}

{{MedalSilver|1990 Moscow|50 m 3 positions, team}}

}}

Deena Lynn Wigger (born August 27, 1966) is a retired American sport shooter, she is the daughter of the Olympic shooter Lones Wigger. She placed 10th in the 10 m air rifle shooting event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Deena Wigger |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/deena-wigger-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418051637/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/deena-wigger-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |accessdate=February 18, 2020}}

Wigger won a total of four gold medals at the Pan American Games in 1983–1995.{{cite book |author=Steven Olderr |title=The Pan American Games / Los Juegos Panamericanos: A Statistical History, 1951-1999, bilingual edition / Una Historia Estadistica, 1951-1999, edicion bilingue |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4IwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA372 |date=2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0468-8 |pages=218, 219, 372}} 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 Murray State University 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 US Air Force Academy. In 1996 she was named the United States Air Force Athlete of the Year.

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