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Harald Stenvaag (born 5 March 1953) is a Norwegian rifle shooter who started competing internationally at the ISSF World Shooting Championships in Switzerland in 1974. He has represented Norway in the Summer Olympics 6 times, and has two Olympic medals. He has a total of 67 international medals in the Olympics, World Shooting Championships and the European Shooting Championships in his career. He was born in Ålesund. [1]
He is running his own shooting business called Stenvaag våpensenter as in Asker outside of Oslo.
Event | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 |
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50 metre rifle three positions | 7th 1173+98.7 | 5th 1166+98.6 | 41st 1153 | Bronze 1175+93.6 | 30th 1149 |
50 metre rifle prone | — | Silver 597+104.4 | 30th 592 | 13th 594 | 16th 592 |
10 metre air rifle | 5th 591+101.0 | 18th 587 | — | — | — |
Current world records held in 300 metre rifle prone | ||||||||
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Men | Individual | 600 | Harald Stenvaag (NOR) Bernd Rücker (GER) Josselin Henry (FRA) Vebjørn Berg (NOR) Stefan Raser (AUT) Remi Moreno Flores (FRA) Karl Olsson (SWE) | 15 August 1990 31 July 1994 5 August 2010 5 August 2010 27 July 2015 23 September 2019 23 September 2019 | Moscow (URS) Tolmezzo (ITA) Munich (GER) Munich (GER) Maribor (SLO) Tolmezzo (ITA) Tolmezzo (ITA) | edit |
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