Snježana Pejčić (born 13 July 1982) is a Croatian athlete who competes in

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. Her first notable success was winning silver at the Juniors European Shooting Championship in

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in 2002, and she won second place at an

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held in

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in 2008. She took up sports shooting at the age of 15 and she is a member of Lokomotiva sport shooting club in Rijeka. Her greatest success came at the

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where she earned a bronze medal.

World records

''* unrecognized as WR due to insufficient number of countries entered''

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* * 1982 births Living people Croatian female sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Olympic shooters for Croatia Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Croatia Sportspeople from Rijeka Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics European Games competitors for Croatia Shooters at the 2015 European Games Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Croatia Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in shooting Shooters at the 2019 European Games {{Croatia-sportshooting-bio-stub