Jean-Pierre Amat

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Jean-Pierre Bernard André Amat (born June 13, 1962 in Chambéry ) is a former French sports shooter . In 1996 he won an Olympic gold and bronze medal. In 1989 and 1998 he was world champion and in 1989, 1990, 1991 and 2000 European champion.

Athletic career

Jean-Pierre Amat began shooting sports in 1981, and in 1982 he finished fourth at the European Junior Championships in prone shooting with the small-bore rifle . In 1984 he reached seventh place in the small-bore three-position battle at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He won his first international individual medal in the adult class in 1986 with the air rifle when he finished second in the European Championships behind his compatriot Jean-Michel Weber . Amat won the team competition in 1985 and 1986 with the French team. In 1989 he won gold in prone shooting and silver in standing shooting at the European Championships with the small-bore rifle. In the same year he won with the air rifle at the World Championships in Sarajevo both in the individual and in the team competition. In the team competition he had already won the title in 1983 and 1985.

In 1990 and 1991 Amat was European champion with the air rifle, at the world championships he finished fourth in 1990 and eighth in 1991. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Amat went to the shooting range in three disciplines; fourth place with the air rifle was his best result. After three years without medals, he received the silver medal in the small-bore three-position battle behind the Russian Artyom Hadschibekow at the European Championships in 1995 .

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, the competition with the air rifle first took place. After the preliminary round, the Austrian Wolfram Waibel was in the lead with 596 points, ahead of Artyom Chadschibekow and Rob Harbison from the United States with 594 points. Amat and four other shooters had reached the final with 591 points. In the final, Amat shot the best series with 102.1 points and won bronze behind Chadschibekow and Waibel. Five days later, the small-bore, three-position competition took place. In the preliminary round, Amat and the Kazakhs Sergei Belyayev scored 1175 points. The best shooter in the final was Jozef Gönci from Slovakia , who was nine points behind after the preliminary round, ahead of Wolfram Waibel. With 98.9 points in the final, Amat won the gold medal ahead of Belyayev and Waibel.

In 1998 in Barcelona Amat won the world title with the free rifle. In 1999 he received bronze in air rifle shooting at the European championships and in 2000 he was once again European champion with the air rifle. At the Olympic Games in 2000 and the World Championships in 2002, he no longer reached a single final.

After his active career, Amat worked as a shooting coach in biathlon , among other things .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ European championships with air guns at sport-komplett.de
  2. ↑ World championships with air guns on sport-komplett.de
  3. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . Pp. 771 to 773
personal data
SURNAME Amat, Jean-Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amat, Jean-Pierre Bernard André (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French marksman
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Chambery