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Full name | Michael Nielsen | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | ![]() | ||||||||||||||
Born | Roskilde, Denmark | 3 August 1975||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||
Event | Skeet ( SK125) | ||||||||||||||
Club | SK København [1] | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Kjild Fristrup [1] | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Michael Nielsen (born 3 August 1975 in Roskilde) is a Danish sport shooter. [2] He won a silver medal in skeet shooting at the 2003 European Championships in Brno, Czech Republic, and eventually finished seventh at the 2004 Summer Olympics, competing for the Danish team. [1] Nielsen trains under longtime coach Kjild Fristrup as a member of the shooting team at SK København. [3]
Nielsen qualified for the Danish team in the men's skeet at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He had eclipsed a minimum qualifying score of 124 to strike a silver-medal finish and to grab one of the Olympic quota places available at the European Championships less than a year earlier. [4] [5] Clearly one of the top favorites vying for an Olympic medal, Nielsen nailed 122 targets out of a possible 125 to force a third-place tie with four other shooters in the qualifying round, but fell abruptly in a tight duel to neighboring Norway's Harald Jensen 2 to 1, who coveted the last seed for the six-man Olympic final, relegating him to seventh. [6] [7]
Nielsen is also married to pistol shooter and three-time Olympian Susanne Meyerhoff. [8]
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Michael Nielsen | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | ![]() | ||||||||||||||
Born | Roskilde, Denmark | 3 August 1975||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||
Event | Skeet ( SK125) | ||||||||||||||
Club | SK København [1] | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Kjild Fristrup [1] | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Michael Nielsen (born 3 August 1975 in Roskilde) is a Danish sport shooter. [2] He won a silver medal in skeet shooting at the 2003 European Championships in Brno, Czech Republic, and eventually finished seventh at the 2004 Summer Olympics, competing for the Danish team. [1] Nielsen trains under longtime coach Kjild Fristrup as a member of the shooting team at SK København. [3]
Nielsen qualified for the Danish team in the men's skeet at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He had eclipsed a minimum qualifying score of 124 to strike a silver-medal finish and to grab one of the Olympic quota places available at the European Championships less than a year earlier. [4] [5] Clearly one of the top favorites vying for an Olympic medal, Nielsen nailed 122 targets out of a possible 125 to force a third-place tie with four other shooters in the qualifying round, but fell abruptly in a tight duel to neighboring Norway's Harald Jensen 2 to 1, who coveted the last seed for the six-man Olympic final, relegating him to seventh. [6] [7]
Nielsen is also married to pistol shooter and three-time Olympian Susanne Meyerhoff. [8]