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| Born | 30 March 1949 Best, Netherlands | |||||||||||||
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Eric Swinkels (born 30 March 1949) is a Dutch sport shooter and Olympic medalist. He won a silver medal in skeet shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. [1] He competed in six different Olympic competitions, beginning in 1972 and ending in 1996. [2]
The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad and commonly known as Montreal 1976, were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam on May 12, 1970, over the bids of Moscow and Los Angeles. It was the first and, so far, only Summer Olympic Games to be held in Canada. Toronto hosted the 1976 Summer Paralympics the same year as the Montreal Olympics, which still remains the only Summer Paralympics to be held in Canada. Calgary and Vancouver later hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1988 and 2010, respectively.
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