Sandra Fong
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United States| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | United States |
| Born | April 15, 1990 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) |
| Weight | 126 lb (57 kg) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Shooting |
Event(s) | 10 m air rifle (AR40) 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20) |
| Club | Ridgewood Rifle Club[1] |
| Coached by | David Johnson (national)[2] |
Sandra Fong (born April 15, 1990, in New York, New York) is an American Olympic sport shooter.[3]
She is a multiple-time American junior record holder, and a three-time medalist (one gold and two silver) for the small-bore rifle prone and rifle three positions at the U.S. National Shooting Championships.[4] At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Fong competed in the women's 50 m rifle 3 positions, finishing in 21st place. She won a gold medal, as a member of the U.S. rifle shooting team, at the 2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Munich, Germany.[5]
Fong was born and raised on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York by her parents Nicole Bergman, an attorney, and Yuman Fong, a resident surgeon at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, emigrating from Hong Kong.[6] She began rifle shooting with her siblings and father as a family sport. Her older sister, Abigail Fong, is a past U.S. national shooting champion, a member of the Princeton University rifle team, and a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[7] Her younger sister, Danielle Fong, who has cerebral palsy, is a member of the U.S. Paralympic team (Beijing, 2008).[8]
In 2008, Fong graduated from Hunter College High School in Manhattan, where she also competed for track and field and swimming.[1] She attended Princeton University as a pre-medicine student and theater and anthropology major, and eventually joined her sister Abigail to become a member for the University's rifle shooting club, graduating in 2013.[9][10] She attended the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, after having been admitted to Mount Sinai in her sophomore year at Princeton.[10] She is currently a general surgery resident at Massachusetts General Hospital.
She is Jewish, and is a member of Temple Shaaray Tefila in New York City.[11][12]