Roger Hansson (sport shooter)

Roger Hansson
Personal information
Full name Christer Mats Roger Hansson
Nationality  Sweden
Born (1970-04-03) 3 April 1970
Kalmar, Sweden
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air rifle (AR60)
50 m rifle prone (FR60PR)
50 m rifle 3 positions (FR3X40)
Club Mönsterås SF[1]
Coached by Stefan Lindblom[1]

Christer Mats Roger Hansson (born April 3, 1970 in Kalmar) is a Swedish sport shooter.[2] He has competed for Sweden in rifle shooting at two Olympics (2000 and 2004), and has attained numerous top ten finishes in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series and the European Championships,[1] Hansson trains under head coach Stefan Lindblom for the national team, while shooting at Mönsterås SF.[1][3]

Hansson's Olympic debut came as a 30-year-old in rifle shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, he finished a lowly twenty-seventh in the air rifle with 587 points, and then shared a credible score of 594 with four other shooters for thirteenth place in the rifle prone.[4][5][6] Hansson also competed in his favorite event, the rifle three positions, where he shot a total of 1162, 396 in prone, 379 in standing, and 387 in kneeling, to tie for twelfth place with neighboring Norway's Espen Berg-Knutsen and Austria's Thomas Farnik, having been close to an Olympic final by just three points.[7]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Hansson decided to focus solely on small-bore rifle shooting in his second Games. He managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 596 in the rifle prone to gain an Olympic quota place for Sweden, following his outside-final finish at the European Championships in Plzen, Czech Republic a year earlier.[8][9] In the 50 m rifle prone, held a week after the start of the Games, Hansson fired 590 out of a possible 600 to force in a thirty-second place tie with fellow marksman and defending Olympic champion Jonas Edman, Ukraine's Yuriy Sukhorukov, and China's Yao Ye.[10][11] Two days later, in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, Hansson bounced back from a disastrous rifle prone feat to shoot a total score of 1155 points (391 in prone, 378 in standing, and 386 in the kneeling) for twenty-fourth place, tying with Czech shooter Tomáš Jeřábek.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "ISSF Profile – Roger Hansson". ISSF. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Roger Hansson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Roger Hansson föreningsmästare på 300m" [Roger Hansson is the 300 m rifle champion] (in Swedish). IdrottOnline.se. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's 10m Air Rifle" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 46–48. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's 50m Rifle Prone" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 49–51. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "China's Cai wins air rifle gold". Canoe.ca. 18 September 2000. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 52–54. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  9. ↑ "Den svenska OS-truppen" [Swedish Olympic squad] (in Swedish). Östgöta Correspondenten. 10 August 2004. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  10. ↑ "Shooting: Men's 50m Rifle Prone Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  11. ↑ "Ingen final för Jonas Edman" [No final for Jonas Edman] (in Swedish). Östgöta Correspondenten. 10 August 2004. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  12. ↑ "Shooting: Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

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