Koby Holland

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Koby Holland
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Full nameKoby Holland
NationalityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Born (1974-09-24) September 24, 1974 (age 49)
Dillon, Montana, U.S.
Height1.84 m (6 ft 12 in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s)10 m running target (10RT)
50 m running target (50RT)
Coached bySergey Luzov [1]

Koby Holland (born September 24, 1974, in Dillon, Montana) is an American sport shooter. [2] He has competed for Team USA in running target shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has won a bronze medal at the 2001 Championship of the Americas tournament in Fort Benning, Georgia. [1] A resident athlete of the United States Olympic Training Center, Holland trains under Belarusian-born coach Sergey Luzov for the America's national running target team. [3]

Holland qualified for the U.S. shooting team in the men's 10 m running target at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He occupied one of the top two berths to join with fellow marksman and three-time Olympian Adam Saathoff at the national trials, having registered a minimum qualifying standard of 566. [3] [4] [5] Virtually unknown to the world scene, Holland showed off his best to shoot 281 on the slow-target portion and a lowly 270 in the fast-moving round throughout the series, shutting out the final to a distant eighteenth with a total score of 551 points. [6]

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References

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