Michael Nielsen (sport shooter)
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| Full name | Michael Nielsen | ||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Denmark | ||||||||||||
| Born |
3 August 1975 Roskilde, Denmark | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Skeet (SK125) | ||||||||||||
| Club | SK København[1] | ||||||||||||
| Coached by | Kjild Fristrup[1] | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Michael Nielsen (born August 3, 1975 in Roskilde) is a Danish sport shooter.[2] He won a silver medal in skeet shooting at the 2003 European Championships in Brno, Czech Republic, and eventually finished seventh at the 2004 Summer Olympics, competing for the Danish team.[1] Nielsen trains under longtime coach Kjild Fristrup as a member of the shooting team at SK København.[3]
Nielsen qualified for the Danish team in the men's skeet at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He had eclipsed a minimum qualifying score of 124 to strike a silver-medal finish and to grab one of the Olympic quota places available at the European Championships less than a year earlier.[4][5] Clearly one of the top favorites vying for an Olympic medal, Nielsen nailed 122 targets out of a possible 125 to force a third-place tie with four other shooters in the qualifying round, but fell abruptly in a tight duel to neighboring Norway's Harald Jensen 2 to 1, who coveted the last seed for the six-man Olympic final, relegating him to seventh.[6][7]
Nielsen is also married to pistol shooter and three-time Olympian Susanne Meyerhoff.[8]
References
- 1 2 3 "ISSF Profile – Michael Nielsen". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ↑ "Michael Nielsen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ↑ Bjørn, Michael (4 June 2004). "Dansk OL-helt snuppede fra klubkassen" [Danish Olympic brand snatched from the club box] (in Danish). Ekstrabladet. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ↑ "Grimmel og Nielsen udtaget til OL" [Grimmel and Nielsen qualified for the Olympics] (in Danish). BT. 20 August 2004. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ↑ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ↑ "Shooting: Men's Skeet Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ "Finalebom for Jensen, italiensk gull" [Final for Jensen, Italy wins gold] (in Norwegian). NRK. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ↑ "OL-kandidat, bevæbnet og gravid" [Olympic athlete feels ready to be pregnant] (in Danish). DR.dk. 13 February 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2015.