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Sport shooting

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Olympic games
silver Paris 1900 AG kneeling 300 m
silver Paris 1900 AG lying 300 m
silver Paris 1900 AG three position fight 300 m
gold Antwerp 1920 AG standing 300 m (M)
World championships
bronze Loosduinen 1899 FG three position fight (M)
silver Paris 1900 FG three position fight
silver Paris 1900 FG lying 300 m
bronze Paris 1900 FG kneeling 300 m
bronze Viborg 1914 FG three position fight (M)

Anders Peter Nielsen (born May 25, 1867 in Harlev , † April 16, 1950 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish sports shooter .

successes

Anders Peter Nielsen took part in four Olympic Games . In 1900 in Paris he won the silver medal with the army rifle in the three-position fight as well as in the prone position and in the kneeling position. The competitions also functioned as a world championship , but the names of the discipline differ between IOC and ISSF , the IOC names the army rifle as a weapon, the ISSF leads the competition under free rifle . 1912 remained Nielsen in Stockholm also no medal win as well in 1924 in Paris, celebrated in between at the Olympic Games 1920 in Antwerp but his greatest Olympic success. In the team competition with the army rifle, he was in the standing position, together with Niels Larsen , Lars Jørgen Madsen , Anders Petersen and Erik Sætter letting American US before and the Swedish team Olympic champion . His son Arne Nielsen also took part in the 1924 Olympic Games.

At world championships he won, in addition to the silver medals in 1900, in 1899 in Loosduinen and in 1914 in Viborg a bronze medal with the team in the three-position fight with the free rifle.

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personal data
SURNAME Nielsen, Anders Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish marksman
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Harlev , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1950
Place of death Copenhagen , Denmark