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Aug 03, 1975 Roskilde, Region Zealand, Denmark 48 years old
Danish sport shooter
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About Michael Nielsen Sport Shooter
- Michael Nielsen (born 3 August 1975 in Roskilde) is a Danish sport shooter.
- He won a silver medal in skeet shooting at the 2003 European Championships in Brno, Czech Republic, and eventually finished seventh at the 2004 Summer Olympics, competing for the Danish team.
- Nielsen trains under longtime coach Kjild Fristrup as a member of the shooting team at SK København.Nielsen qualified for the Danish team in the men's skeet at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
- He had eclipsed a minimum qualifying score of 124 to strike a silver-medal finish and to grab one of the Olympic quota places available at the European Championships less than a year earlier.
- Clearly one of the top favorites vying for an Olympic medal, Nielsen nailed 122 targets out of a possible 125 to force a third-place tie with four other shooters in the qualifying round, but fell abruptly in a tight duel to neighboring Norway's Harald Jensen 2 to 1, who coveted the last seed for the six-man Olympic final, relegating him to seventh.Nielsen is also married to pistol shooter and three-time Olympian Susanne Meyerhoff.
