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Launi Meili

  • Class
    1990
  • Induction
    1996
  • Sport(s)
    Shooting

A graduate of Eastern and Cheney High School, she won the gold medal in women's three-position smallbore rifle shooting at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. She also placed 11th in air rifle in Barcelona after placing sixth in air rifle and seventh in three-position rifle at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988. Meili also won a bronze medal at the World Championships in 1990. In all, she set three world shooting records and more than 100 national records in her outstanding shooting career. She competed in shooting at EWU, leading Eastern to a seventh-place finish at the 1983 NCAA Men's and Women's Rifle Championships. Meili was inducted into the Inland Northwest Sports Hall of Fame in 1995 and was the Inland Empire Athlete of the Year in 1992.
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