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 | |
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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