Niklas Bergström

Niklas Bergström
Personal information
Full name	Lars Niklas Bergström
Nationality	Swedish
Born	18 August 1974; Karlstad, Sweden
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)
Sport
Country	Sweden
Sport	Shooting
Event(s)	10 m running target (10RT); 50 m running target (50RT)
Club	Glaskogens JSK[1]
Coached by	Claes Johansson[1]
Men's shooting
Representing Sweden
World Championships
European Championships

Lars Niklas Bergström (born 18 August 1974) is a Swedish sport shooter.[2] He has been selected to compete for Sweden in running target shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has won a total of seventeen medals in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series, the World Championships, and the European Championships.[1] Bergstrom trains under head coach Claes Johansson for the national running target team, while shooting at Glaskogens JSK in Glava.[1][3]

Career

Bergström qualified for his first and only Swedish squad in the last Olympic running target competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[4] He finished behind U.S. shooter and three-time Olympian Adam Saathoff in a runner-up position at the ISSF World Cup meet a year earlier in Suhl, Germany to secure an Olympic berth for Sweden, and eventually join with fellow marksman Emil Andersson for the national team.[5][6] Bergstrom marked a steady 286 in the slow-target portion and 285 in the fast-moving round to accumulate a total score of 571 points in the qualifying round, shutting him out of the Olympic final to twelfth in a 19-shooter field.[7][8]

At the 2009 World Running Target Championships in Vierumäki, Finland, Bergström held off a strenuous challenge from Russia's Igor Kolessov to capture his first ever Worlds medal in a bronze medal duel 20 to 19, finishing third at 391 points.[9]

gollark: Mentioning ████████ is not to be permitted. In fact, don't even reference other servers, even not by name. In fact, don't even imply or suggest that those might exist.

gollark: It's the 18th anniversary of it, yes.

gollark: No, it's the 9/11 terrorist attack he seems to not want to refer to by name.

gollark: Massively insane overreaction to terrorist attacks has *not only* resulted in significantly curtailed freedoms (border control, interwebbernet monitoring/heightened surveillance generally, airports, etc.) but also sucked horrendous amounts of resources which probably could have been used to help with that.

gollark: Meanwhile there's more than *one death per second* worldwide.

References

"ISSF Profile – Niklas Bergström". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Niklas Bergström". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
"Niklas Bergström skjuter för ny medalj" [Niklas Bergström shoots for a new medal] (in Swedish). VF.se. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
"Här börjar svenska klassresan mot Aten" [Swedish athletes have begun their journey to Athens] (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 8 August 2004. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
"Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
"Värmländsk framgång i sportskytte" [Värmländ native scores success in sport shooting] (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 27 July 2003. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
"Shooting: Men's 10m Running Target Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
"8:e plats för Andersson i skyttekval" [8th place for Andersson in the running target] (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 27 July 2003. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
Viitanen, Matti (27 August 2009). "Staffan Holmström ampui MM-hopeaa liikkuvan maalin pienoiskiväärin sekajuoksuissa Vierumäellä, Suomelle joukkuehopeaa" [Staffan Holmström shoots for the silver in men's running target at the World Championships in Vierumäki, Finns take the team silver] (in Finnish). Suomen Ampumaurheiluliitto. Retrieved 2 September 2015.

External links

Niklas Bergström at the International Shooting Sport Federation
Athlete Bio – Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[issf-1] "ISSF Profile – Niklas Bergström". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.

[2] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Niklas Bergström". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2015.

[3] "Niklas Bergström skjuter för ny medalj" [Niklas Bergström shoots for a new medal] (in Swedish). VF.se. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2015.

[4] "Här börjar svenska klassresan mot Aten" [Swedish athletes have begun their journey to Athens] (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 8 August 2004. Retrieved 4 September 2015.

[5] "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

[6] "Värmländsk framgång i sportskytte" [Värmländ native scores success in sport shooting] (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 27 July 2003. Retrieved 2 September 2015.

[7] "Shooting: Men's 10m Running Target Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

[8] "8:e plats för Andersson i skyttekval" [8th place for Andersson in the running target] (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 27 July 2003. Retrieved 2 September 2015.

[9] Viitanen, Matti (27 August 2009). "Staffan Holmström ampui MM-hopeaa liikkuvan maalin pienoiskiväärin sekajuoksuissa Vierumäellä, Suomelle joukkuehopeaa" [Staffan Holmström shoots for the silver in men's running target at the World Championships in Vierumäki, Finns take the team silver] (in Finnish). Suomen Ampumaurheiluliitto. Retrieved 2 September 2015.