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Nationality | ![]() |
Born | Zug, Switzerland | 5 August 1982
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Shooting |
Event(s) | 10 m air pistol (AP60) 50 m pistol (FP) |
Club | PS Brunnen [1] |
Coached by | Krzysztof Kucharczyk [1] |
Christoph Schmid (born 5 August 1982 in Zug) is a Swiss sport shooter. [2] He won a silver medal in the men's 50 m free pistol at the 2007 ISSF World Cup series in Fort Benning, Georgia, accumulating a score of 659.7 points. [3] [1]
Schmid represented Switzerland at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in two pistol shooting events. He scored a total of 573 targets in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air pistol, by two points behind Australia's Daniel Repacholi from the final attempt, finishing in thirty-third place. [4] Three days later, Schmid placed fortieth in his second event, 50 m pistol, by one point behind Poland's Wojciech Knapik, with a total score of 542 targets. [5]