Personal information | |
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Nationality | Canada |
Born | Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa [1] | 16 February 1968
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Shooting |
Event(s) | 50 m rifle prone (FR60PR) |
Club | SCMRA [1] |
Coached by | Saul Miller [1] |
Johannes Sauer (born February 16, 1968 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African-born Canadian sport shooter. [2] He is a two-time Canadian shooting champion, and a gold medalist for the rifle prone at the 2005 Championships of the Americas in Salinas, California. [1]
Sauer represented his adopted country of Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's 50 m rifle prone. He finished only in forty-fourth place by one point behind South Korea's Park Bong-Duk from the fifth attempt, for a total score of 587 targets. [3]
Salman Zaman is a Bahraini rifle sport shooter. Zaman represented Bahrain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's 50 m rifle prone shooting. He finished only in thirty-seventh place for the qualifying rounds, with a total score of 588 points.
Dadallah Noor Mohamed Al-Bulushi is an Omani sport shooter. Al-Bulushi was one of sixteen athletes, including his brother Abdul Latif, who made the nation's official debut at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where he competed in two rifle shooting events. He placed forty-ninth in the 50 m rifle prone, with a total score of 582 points, tying his position with three other shooters including Israel's Itzhak Yonassi. Few days later, he competed for his second event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, where he was able to shoot 387 targets in a prone position, 341 in kneeling, and 322 in standing, for an overall total score of 1,050 points, finishing only in fiftieth place.
Robert Roman Kraskowski is a Polish sport shooter. Kraskowski had won a total of three medals at the ISSF World Cup circuit, including gold for the 10 m air rifle. He also competed in the rifle shooting events at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Espen Berg-Knutsen is a Norwegian sport shooter. He is also a three-time Olympian, two-time World champion, and world-record holder for the 300 m rifle three positions.
Esmari van Reenen is a South African sport shooter. She won the silver medal for the rifle three positions at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, losing out by seven tenths of a point (0.7) to India's Anuja Jung. Van Reenen received a qualifying place for the Olympics by capturing the gold in the same category at the 2007 ISSF African Shooting Championships in Cairo, Egypt. She also achieved a best result in the international stage by finishing fifth at the 2008 ISSF World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, with a score of 673.3 points.
Konstantin Vladimirovich Prikhodtchenko is a Russian sport shooter. He won a silver medal for the 50 m rifle three positions at the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Lahti, Finland, with a score of 1255.4 points. He is also a member of CSKA Moscow and is coached and trained by Victor Vlasov.
Mohamed Mahmoud Amer is an Egyptian sport shooter. He is a six-time medalist in men's small-bore rifle prone and three positions at the African Shooting Championships.
Tomáš Jeřábek is a Czech sport shooter. Jerabek had won two medals, and eventually set a world record of 3,511 points for the Czech rifle shooting team at the 2002 ISSF World Championships in Lahti, Finland. He is a two-time Olympian, and also, a member of the shooting team for ŠKP Rapid Plzeň, under his coach Petr Kurka.
Park Bong-Duk is a South Korean sport shooter. He won two bronze medals in the men's 50 m rifle three positions at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand, and at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, with scores of 1,247 and 1,256.8 points, respectively. He also competed for two rifle shooting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, but he neither reached the final round, nor claimed an Olympic medal.
Kim Yoo-yeon is a South Korean sport shooter. Kim represented South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. where she competed in the women's 50 m rifle 3 positions. She was able to shoot 193 targets in a prone position, 181 in standing, and 195 in kneeling, for a total score of 569 points, finishing only in thirty-fourth place.
Nataliya Olehivna Kalnysh is a Ukrainian sport shooter.
Luis Jesús Martínez Encabo is a Spanish sport shooter. Martinez represented Spain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed only in two rifle shooting events. He scored a total of 589 points in the men's 10 m air rifle by two points behind Slovenia's Rajmond Debevec from the fifth attempt, finishing only in thirty-second place. Few days later, Martinez placed fiftieth in his second event, 50 m rifle prone, by one point ahead of Oman's Dadallah Al-Bulushi from the final attempt, with a total score of 582 targets.
Irene Beyeler is a Swiss sport shooter. Beyeler represented Switzerland at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in rifle shooting events, along with her brother and teammate Simon Beyeler. She placed sixteenth out of forty-seven shooters in the women's 10 m air rifle by one point behind United States' Emily Caruso from the third attempt, with a total score of 395 points. Nearly a week later, Beyeler competed for her second event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, where she was able to shoot 195 targets in a prone position, 188 in standing, and 194 in kneeling, for a total score of 577 points, finishing only in twenty-third place.
Beat Müller is a Swiss sport shooter. He won a bronze medal in the men's 300 m rifle prone (300FR60PR) at the 2008 European Shooting Championships in Granada, Spain, accumulating a score of 599 points. Muller is also a member of Sportschützen Taters, and is coached and trained by former Olympian Wolfram Waibel Jr. of Austria.
Zorigtyn Batkhuyag is a Mongolian sport shooter. Zorigt made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed twentieth in the 10 m air rifle, and twenty-third in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, with total scores of 391 and 572 points, respectively.
Michael Winter is a German sport shooter. Winter represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for all three rifle shooting events.
Susan Valerie McCready is an Australian sport shooter. Since 1997, McCready had won a total of eleven medals in both air and small-bore rifle at the Oceania Shooting Championships. She also captured a gold medal in the women's 50 m rifle three positions at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, accumulating a score of 667.3 points. McCready is the wife of three-time Olympian and pistol shooter Daniel Repacholi.
Matthew Robert Inabinet is an Australian sport shooter. He won a total of three medals in both air and small-bore rifle at the Oceania Shooting Championships.
Benjamin Burge is an Australian sport shooter. Since 2001, Burge had won a total of seven medals in both air and small-bore rifle at the Oceania Shooting Championships. He also captured a bronze medal for the men's 50 m rifle three positions at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, accumulating a score of 1,238.2 points.
Martin Senore is a South African sport shooter. He has been selected to compete for South Africa in small-bore rifle shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has achieved a total of two medals, a gold and a bronze, at two editions of the African Championships. Senore trains full-time at Eagle Eye Shooting Centre in Pretoria under his longtime coach Hubert Bichler.