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| Chris Rice | |
| Fullname: | Christopher Rice |
| Birth Date: | 26 December 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands |
| Weight: | 750NaN0 |
| Sport: | Shooting |
| Event: | 10 m air pistol (AP60) 50 m pistol (FP) |
| Club: | Virgin Island Shooting Federation |
| Coach: | Will Henderson |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Christopher Rice (born December 26, 1959, in Saint Thomas) is a sport shooter from the United States Virgin Islands.[1] He has been selected to compete for the Virgin Islands as a lone pistol shooter in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and has won a bronze medal in free pistol at the 2001 American Continental Championships in Fort Benning, Georgia, United States.[2] Rice also trains under head coach Will Henderson for the Virgin Island Shooting Federation.[2]
Rice's Olympic debut came at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he finished thirty-ninth in the air pistol, and twenty-seventh in the free pistol, producing aggregate scores of 560 and 548 respectively.[3] [4] [5]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Rice qualified for his second Virgin Islands team in both air and free pistol. He had granted a tripartite invitation in the air pistol from ISSF, after having recorded a personal best of 569 out of a possible 600 to finish tenth at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic one year earlier.[2] [6] In his first event, the 10 m air pistol, Rice fired a score of 560 to finish in a distant forty-sixth position from an enormous field of forty-seven shooters, just nine points short of his personal best.[7] Three days later, in the 50 m pistol, Rice registered the lowest score of the meet at 529 points to round out the field with Namibia's Friedhelm Sack for forty-first place.[8]