Roger Hansson (sport shooter)

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Roger Hansson
Personal information
Full nameChrister Mats Roger Hansson
NationalityFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Born (1970-04-03) 3 April 1970 (age 53)
Kalmar, Sweden
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s)10 m air rifle (AR60)
50 m rifle prone (FR60PR)
50 m rifle 3 positions (FR3X40)
ClubMönsterås SF [1]
Coached byStefan Lindblom [1]

Christer Mats Roger Hansson (born 3 April 1970, in Kalmar) is a Swedish sport shooter. [2] He has competed for Sweden in rifle shooting at two Olympics (2000 and 2004), and has attained numerous top ten finishes in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series and the European Championships, [1] Hansson trains under head coach Stefan Lindblom for the national team, while shooting at Mönsterås SF. [1] [3]

Hansson's Olympic debut came as a 30-year-old in rifle shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, he finished a lowly twenty-seventh in the air rifle with 587 points, and then shared a credible score of 594 with four other shooters for thirteenth place in the rifle prone. [4] [5] [6] Hansson also competed in his favorite event, the rifle three positions, where he shot a total of 1162, 396 in prone, 379 in standing, and 387 in kneeling, to tie for twelfth place with neighboring Norway's Espen Berg-Knutsen and Austria's Thomas Farnik, having been close to an Olympic final by just three points. [7]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Hansson decided to focus solely on small-bore rifle shooting in his second Games. He managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 596 in the rifle prone to gain an Olympic quota place for Sweden, following his outside-final finish at the European Championships in Plzeň, Czech Republic a year earlier. [8] [9] In the 50 m rifle prone, held a week after the start of the Games, Hansson fired 590 out of a possible 600 to force in a thirty-second place tie with fellow marksman and defending Olympic champion Jonas Edman, Ukraine's Yuriy Sukhorukov, and China's Yao Ye. [10] [11] Two days later, in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, Hansson bounced back from a disastrous rifle prone feat to shoot a total score of 1155 points (391 in prone, 378 in standing, and 386 in the kneeling) for twenty-fourth place, tying with Czech shooter Tomáš Jeřábek. [12]

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