Nathalie Larsson

Nathalie Larsson
Personal information
Full name Nathalie Linda Larsson
Nationality  Sweden
Born (1984-05-25) 25 May 1984
Uppsala, Sweden
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) Skeet
Club Dannemora JSK[1]
Coached by Tore Brovold[1]

Nathalie Linda Larsson (born May 25, 1984 in Uppsala) is a Swedish sport shooter.[2] She won two gold medals in the women's skeet at the 2005 European Shooting Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, and at the 2009 European Shooting Championships in Osijek, Croatia, accumulating scores of 92 and 93 targets, respectively.[1][3]

Larsson qualified for the women's skeet at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after placing fourth from the 2007 ISSF World Cup series in the same venue, with a score of 94 targets.[4] She narrowly lost a bronze medal by one point to Germany's Christine Brinker in the entire event, with a total score of 92 targets (69 in the preliminary rounds and 23 in the final), and a bonus of two from a fourth-place shoot-off (against Thailand's Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit).[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ISSF Profile – Nathalie Larsson". ISSF. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Nathalie Larsson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Natalie Larsson tog EM-guld" [Nathalie Larsson won European Championship gold] (in Swedish). Svensk Jakt. 24 July 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "Chinese Wei grabs gold in women's skeet with full mark in final round". Xinhua News Agency. 17 April 2008. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
  5. ↑ "Women's Skeet Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Women's Skeet Final". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
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