Tore Brovold winning the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics | ||
Medal record | ||
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Representing Norway | ||
Men's shooting | ||
Olympic Games | ||
2008 Beijing | Skeet | |
ISSF World Shooting Championships | ||
2005 Lonato | Skeet - team | |
2006 Zagreb | Skeet | |
2006 Zagreb | Skeet - team | |
2011 Belgrade | Skeet |
Tore Brovold (born 12 June 1970) is a Norwegian sport shooter competing in Skeet. Brovold was one of the Norwegian athletes competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he won a silver medal. [1] Later the same year, he won the 2008 ISSF World Cup Final.
Brovold started shooting in 1977, when he was only 7 years, and participated in his first competition two years later. He began skeet shooting in 1996.
World records held in Skeet from 2005 to 2012 | ||||||
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Men | Qualification | 125 | Vincent Hancock (USA) Tore Brovold (NOR) Mykola Milchev (UKR) Jan Sychra (CZE) Tore Brovold (NOR) Jan Sychra (CZE) Antonakis Andreou (CYP) Juan José Aramburu (ESP) Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT) Anthony Terras (FRA) Efthimios Mitas (GRE) | June 14, 2007 July 13, 2008 May 9, 2009 May 20, 2009 July 25, 2009 March 7, 2011 April 22, 2011 September 13, 2011 January 17, 2012 March 26, 2012 March 26, 2012 | Lonato (ITA) Nicosia (CYP) Cairo (EGY) Munich (GER) Osijek (CRO) Concepción (CHI) Beijing (CHN) Belgrade (SER) Doha (QAT) Tucson (USA) Tucson (USA) | edit |
Final | 150 | Vincent Hancock (USA) (125+25) Tore Brovold (NOR) (125+25) Tore Brovold (NOR) (125+25) Jan Sychra (CZE) (125+25) Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT) (125+25) Efthimios Mitas (GRE) (125+25) | June 14, 2007 July 13, 2008 July 25, 2009 March 7, 2011 January 17, 2012 March 26, 2012 | Lonato (ITA) Nicosia (CYP) Osijek (CRO) Concepción (CHI) Doha (QAT) Tucson (USA) | edit | |
Teams | 368 | Germany (Wenzel, Wegner, Buchheim) Norway (Brovold, Undseth, Jensen) | August 12, 2011 | Belgrade (SER) | edit |
Tore Brovold is currently training the danish skeet shooter Jesper Hansen, who is going to the Olympics in Tokyo in 2021. Tore Brovold has been the trainer of the Indian Skeet Shooters Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Gurjoat Siingh Khangura and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa. [2]
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