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| Nationality | Swedish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 22, 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marcus Svensson is a Swedish sport shooter born in 1990. [1] At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 7th place. [2] At the 2016 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet and finished in second place, earning a silver medal for his native Sweden. [2]
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Luigi Lodde is an Italian sport shooter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 5th place.
Jan Sychra is a Czech sport shooter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 5th place.
Frank Thompson is an American sport shooter. Thompson was born on March 11, 1988, in Alliance, Nebraska, United States. Thompson became a member of the National Development Team in 2006. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 8th place. He finished in 21st at the 2016 Olympics.
Nikolaos Mavrommatis is a Greek sport shooter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 9th place.
Ralf Buchheim is a German sport shooter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 10th place. The sports shooter Michael Buchheim is his father.
Stefan Nilsson is a Swedish sport shooter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 15th place. He competed in the same event again at the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing 5th.
Rory Warlow is an English sport shooter born in Plymouth. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 16th place.
Jakub Tomeček is a Czech sport shooter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 19th place.
Efthimios Mitas is a Greek sport shooter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 25th place. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he took the 13th place at the same event.
Nicolás Pacheco Espinosa is a Peruvian sport shooter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 32nd place. He studied at Newton College.
Elena Allen is a British sport shooter. She represented Wales in the Commonwealth Games in 2014, winning the silver medal, having previously won bronze for England at the 2006 Games. She competed for Team GB at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics and has been chosen once more to compete at the 2016 Games.
Antonis Nikolaidis is a British-born Cypriot sport shooter. He captured a total of seven medals in men's skeet shooting at the ISSF World Cup series, and shared titles with Costas Stratis at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and with Georgios Achilleos in the doubles at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and 2006 Commonwealth Games. Nikolaidis also competed for Cyprus in the same discipline in three editions of the Olympic Games, but he neither reached the final round, nor claimed an Olympic medal.
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