Sue McCready

{{Short description|Australian sports shooter}}

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| fullname = Susan Valerie McCready

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|4|4|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Sunbury, Victoria, Australia

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| sport = Shooting

| event = 10 m air rifle (AR40)
50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)

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| club = Melbourne International Shooting
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| coach = Miroslav Sipek

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{{MedalSport | Women's shooting}}

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{{MedalGold | 1998 Kuala Lumpur | }}

{{MedalSilver | 2002 Manchester | STR3X20 Pairs}}

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Susan Valerie McCready (born 4 April 1981 in Sunbury, Victoria) is an Australian sport shooter.{{cite sports-reference|title = Sue McCready|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/sue-mccready-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418025544/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/sue-mccready-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 29 January 2013}} Since 1997, McCready had won a total of eleven medals (five golds, four silver, and two bronze) in both air and small-bore rifle at the Oceania Shooting Championships.{{cite web|title=ISSF Profile – Sue McCready|url=http://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/athlete.ashx?personissfid=SHAUSW0404198101|publisher=ISSF|access-date=29 January 2013}} She also captured a gold medal in the women's 50 m rifle three positions at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, accumulating a score of 667.3 points.{{cite news|title=Jaspal Rana shoots second gold|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98sep20/sports.htm#1|newspaper=The Tribune|date=19 September 1998|access-date=29 January 2013}} McCready is the wife of three-time Olympian (2004, 2008, and 2012) and pistol shooter Daniel Repacholi.{{cite news|last=Ryan|first=Caitlin|title=Set for shot at Games|url=http://sunbury-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/set-for-shot-at-games/|newspaper=Sunbury Leader|date=18 March 2008|access-date=29 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029085815/http://sunbury-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/set-for-shot-at-games/|archive-date=29 October 2009|df=dmy-all}}{{cite news|title=Sue McCready|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sue-mccready/story-e6freyxr-1111117038196|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=Sydney|date=28 July 2008|access-date=29 January 2013}}

McCready made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed fifteenth in the 10 m air rifle, and twentieth in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, with total scores of 392 and 574 points, respectively.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, McCready finished twenty-seventh in the preliminary rounds of the women's 10 m air rifle, with a total score of 391 points, tying her position with four other shooters including South Korea's Seo Sun-hwa. She also accumulated a score of 567 targets (194 in a prone position, 187 in standing, and 186 in kneeling) in her second event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, by two points behind Japan's Hiromi Misaki, finishing only in twenty-fifth place.

Eight years after competing in her first Olympics, McCready qualified for her third Australian team, as a 27-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by finishing second in the air rifle (AR40) from the 2007 Oceanian Shooting Championships in Sydney. She placed forty-second in the women's 10 m air rifle by one point ahead of Venezuela's Diliana Méndez from the final attempt, with a total score of 386 points.{{cite web|title=Women's 10m Air Rifle Qualification |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc=SHW101901/index.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |access-date=29 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816053304/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSHW101901/index.html |archive-date=16 August 2012 }} Nearly a week later, McCready competed for her second event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, where she was able to shoot 195 targets in a prone position, 172 in standing, and 183 in kneeling, for a total score of 550 points, finishing only in forty-third place.{{cite web|title=Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Qualification |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc=SHW104901/index.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |access-date=29 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816050347/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSHW104901/index.html |archive-date=16 August 2012 }}