Niklas Bergström
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| Full name | Lars Niklas Bergström | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
18 August 1974 Karlstad, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) |
10 m running target (10RT) 50 m running target (50RT) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Glaskogens JSK[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Claes Johansson[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lars Niklas Bergström (born August 18, 1974 in Karlstad) is a Swedish sport shooter.[2] He has been selected to compete for Sweden in running target shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has won a total of seventeen medals in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series, the World Championships, and the European Championships.[1] Bergstrom trains under head coach Claes Johansson for the national running target team, while shooting at Glaskogens JSK in Glava.[1][3]
Bergström qualified for his first and only Swedish squad in the last Olympic running target competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[4] He finished behind U.S. shooter and three-time Olympian Adam Saathoff in a runner-up position at the ISSF World Cup meet a year earlier in Suhl, Germany to secure an Olympic berth for Sweden, and eventually join with fellow marksman Emil Andersson for the national team.[5][6] Bergstrom marked a steady 286 in the slow-target portion and 285 in the fast-moving round to accumulate a total score of 571 points in the qualifying round, shutting him out of the Olympic final to twelfth in a 19-shooter field.[7][8]
At the 2009 World Running Target Championships in Vierumäki, Finland, Bergström held off a strenuous challenge from Russia's Igor Kolessov to capture his first ever Worlds medal in a bronze medal duel 20 to 19, finishing third at 391 points.[9]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "ISSF Profile – Niklas Bergström". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ↑ "Niklas Bergström". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ↑ "Niklas Bergström skjuter för ny medalj" [Niklas Bergström shoots for a new medal] (in Swedish). VF.se. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ↑ "Här börjar svenska klassresan mot Aten" [Swedish athletes have begun their journey to Athens] (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 8 August 2004. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ↑ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 9. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ↑ "Värmländsk framgång i sportskytte" [Värmländ native scores success in sport shooting] (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 27 July 2003. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ↑ "Shooting: Men's 10m Running Target Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ "8:e plats för Andersson i skyttekval" [8th place for Andersson in the running target] (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 27 July 2003. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ↑ Viitanen, Matti (27 August 2009). "Staffan Holmström ampui MM-hopeaa liikkuvan maalin pienoiskiväärin sekajuoksuissa Vierumäellä, Suomelle joukkuehopeaa" [Staffan Holmström shoots for the silver in men's running target at the World Championships in Vierumäki, Finns take the team silver] (in Finnish). Suomen Ampumaurheiluliitto. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
External links
- Niklas Bergström at the International Shooting Sport Federation
- Athlete Bio – Swedish Olympic Committee (Swedish)