Michael Nielsen (sport shooter)
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| Full name | Michael Nielsen | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Denmark | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 August 1975 Roskilde, Denmark | ||||||||||||||
| 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) 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]
