Harald Stenvaag (born 5 March 1953) is a Norwegian rifle shooter who started competing internationally at the ISSF World Shooting Championships in Switzerland in 1974. He has represented Norway in the Summer Olympics 6 times, and has two Olympic medals. He has a total of 67 international medals in the Olympics, World Shooting Championships and the European Shooting Championships in his career. He was born in Ålesund.[1]
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| Born | 5 March 1953 (age 71) Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal, Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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He is running his own shooting business called Stenvaag våpensenter as in Asker outside of Oslo.
Olympic results
edit| Event | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 |
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| 50 metre rifle three positions | 14th 1145 |
7th 1173+98.7 |
5th 1166+98.6 |
41st 1153 |
 Bronze1175+93.6 |
30th 1149 |
| 50 metre rifle prone | 17th 591 |
— |  Silver597+104.4 |
30th 592 |
13th 594 |
16th 592 |
| 10 metre air rifle | 7th 582 |
5th 591+101.0 |
18th 587 |
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Records
edit| Current world records held in 300 metre rifle prone | ||||||||
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| Men | Individual | 600 |  Harald Stenvaag (NOR) Bernd Rücker (GER) Josselin Henry (FRA) Vebjørn Berg (NOR) Stefan Raser (AUT) Remi Moreno Flores (FRA) Karl Olsson (SWE)
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15 August 1990 31 July 1994 5 August 2010 5 August 2010 27 July 2015 23 September 2019 23 September 2019 |
Moscow (URS) Tolmezzo (ITA) Munich (GER) Munich (GER) Maribor (SLO) Tolmezzo (ITA) Tolmezzo (ITA) |
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References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Harald Stenvaag". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
External links
edit- Homepage of Stenvaag våpensenter (in Norwegian)
- Harald Stenvaag at the International Shooting Sport Federation
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