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Michael Winter (sport shooter)

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Nationality
  
Germany

Name
  
Michael Winter

Sport
  
Shooting

Role
  
Olympic athlete


Club
  
HSG Munchen

Height
  
1.80 m

Coached by
  
Claus Dieter Roth

Weight
  
75 kg

Born
  
20 May 1976 (age 47) (
1976-05-20
)
Munich, Germany

Event(s)
  
10 m air rifle (AR60) 50 m rifle prone (FR60PR) 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)

Michael Winter (born May 20, 1976 in Munich) is a German sport shooter. Winter represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for all three rifle shooting events.

In his first event, 10 m air rifle, Winter was able to hit a total of 588 points within six attempts, finishing thirty-sixth in the qualifying rounds. Few days later, he placed thirty-first in the 50 m rifle prone, by one target ahead of Switzerland's Marcel Bürge from the final attempt, with a total score of 590 points. In his third and last event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, Winter was able to shoot 396 targets in a prone position, and 385 each in standing and in kneeling, for a total score of 1,166 points, finishing only in seventeenth place.

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Michael Winter (sport shooter) Wikipedia