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Gyda Ellefsplass Olssen

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Nationality
  
Norway

Club
  
Stange Sportsskyttere

Sport
  
Shooting


Weight
  
59 kg (130 lb)

Height
  
1.64 m (5 ft 4 ⁄2 in)

Name
  
Gyda Olssen

Born
  
16 November 1978 (age 45) (
1978-11-16
)
Elverum, Norway

Event(s)
  
10 m air rifle (AR40) 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)

Gyda Ellefsplass Olssen (born November 16, 1978 in Elverum) is a Norwegian sport shooter. At age twenty-nine, Olssen made her official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in two rifle shooting events. She placed thirty-fourth out of forty-seven shooters in the women's 10 m air rifle, with a total score of 391 points. Nearly a week later, Olssen competed for her second event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, where she was able to shoot 195 targets in a prone position, and 190 each in standing and in kneeling, for a total score of 575 points, finishing only in twenty-seventh place.

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Gyda Ellefsplass Olssen Wikipedia