Roger Hansson (sport shooter)
Swedish sports shooter
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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]
Sweden| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Christer Mats Roger Hansson |
| Nationality | Sweden |
| Born | 3 April 1970 Kalmar, Sweden |
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Shooting |
Events | 10 m air rifle (AR60) 50 m rifle prone (FR60PR) 50 m rifle 3 positions (FR3X40) |
| Club | Mönsterås SF[1] |
| Coached by | Stefan Lindblom[1] |
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]