Personal information | |
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Nationality | ![]() |
Born | Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, West Germany | 10 April 1964
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Shooting |
Event(s) | 10 m air pistol (
AP60) 50 m pistol ( FP) |
Club | Schützenbund Broistedt [1] |
Coached by | Philip Bernhard [1] |
Hans-Jörg Meyer (born April 10, 1964 in Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony) is a German sport shooter. [2] He won a silver medal in the men's 50 m free pistol at the 2009 European Shooting Championships in Osijek, Croatia, accumulating a score of 653.8 targets. [3] [1]
At age forty-four, Meyer made his official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in two pistol shooting events, along with his teammate Florian Schmidt. He scored a total of 577 targets in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air pistol, by one point ahead of Belarus' Yury Dauhapolau from the final attempt, finishing only in twenty-first place. [4] Three days later, Meyer placed thirteenth in his second event, 50 m pistol, by two points ahead of U.S. shooter Daryl Szarenski, with a total score of 557 targets. [5]
Personal information | |
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Nationality | ![]() |
Born | Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, West Germany | 10 April 1964
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Shooting |
Event(s) | 10 m air pistol (
AP60) 50 m pistol ( FP) |
Club | Schützenbund Broistedt [1] |
Coached by | Philip Bernhard [1] |
Hans-Jörg Meyer (born April 10, 1964 in Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony) is a German sport shooter. [2] He won a silver medal in the men's 50 m free pistol at the 2009 European Shooting Championships in Osijek, Croatia, accumulating a score of 653.8 targets. [3] [1]
At age forty-four, Meyer made his official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in two pistol shooting events, along with his teammate Florian Schmidt. He scored a total of 577 targets in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air pistol, by one point ahead of Belarus' Yury Dauhapolau from the final attempt, finishing only in twenty-first place. [4] Three days later, Meyer placed thirteenth in his second event, 50 m pistol, by two points ahead of U.S. shooter Daryl Szarenski, with a total score of 557 targets. [5]