Peter Thuesen (sport shooter)

Peter Thuesen
Personal information
Full name Peter Thuesen
Nationality  Denmark
Born (1978-11-02) 2 November 1978
Holstebro, Denmark
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air rifle (AR60)
Club Akademisk Skytteforening[1]
Coached by Klaus Christensen[1]

Peter Thuesen (born November 2, 1978 in Holstebro) is a Danish sport shooter.[2] He has been selected to compete for Denmark in air rifle shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has won two medals, gold and silver, in a major international competition, spanning the European Championships and the ISSF World Cup series.[1] Thuesen trains under head coach Klaus Christensen for the national team at a rifle shooting academy in Aarhus (Danish: Akademisk Skytteforening).[1]

Thuesen qualified for the Danish team in the men's 10 m air rifle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 596 to secure an Olympic berth for Denmark, after claiming the gold medal in his pet event at the 2002 ISSF World Cup meet in Milan, Italy two years earlier.[3][4][5] Thuesen shot a steady 589 out of a possible 600 to tie for twenty-ninth position with neighboring Sweden's Sven Haglund, Russia's Konstantin Prikhodtchenko, and Slovenia's 2000 Olympic gold medalist Rajmond Debevec in the qualifying round, failing to advance to the final.[6][7]

Thuesen currently resides in Aarhus with his wife and fellow Olympian Ann Spejlsgaard, who also competed in the women's air rifle shooting at the same Games.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "ISSF Profile – Peter Thuesen". ISSF. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Peter Thuesen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Finale i sigte for Århus-skytte" [Aarhus shooter set sights for the finale] (in Danish). Jyllands-Posten. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Danske OL-deltagere" [Danish Olympic delegation] (in Danish). Berlingske. 13 August 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Shooting: Men's 10m Air Rifle Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "OL-deltager vred på TV2" [Olympian gets enraged with TV2] (in Danish). Ekstrabladet. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
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