Jonas Jonsson (marksman)

Jonas Jonsson medal table
Sport shooting
Sweden
Olympic games
bronze	London 1948	KK lying 50 m
World championships
silver	Lucerne 1939	KK lying 50 m (M)
silver	Stockholm 1947	KK lying 50 m
gold	Stockholm 1947	KK lying 50 m (M)
silver	Stockholm 1947	KK standing 50 m (M)
bronze	Stockholm 1947	KK kneeling 50 m (M)
bronze	Buenos Aires 1949	FG three position fight 300 m
bronze	Buenos Aires 1949	FG three position fight 300 m (M)
silver	Buenos Aires 1949	KK three position fight 50 m (M)

Jonas Engelbrekt Jonsson (born October 27, 1903 in Hanebo , † January 12, 1996 in Norrköping ) was a Swedish sports shooter .

successes

Jonas Jonsson took part in the 1948 Olympic Games in London in competition with the small bore rifle in the prone position over 50 m. In six rounds of ten shots each, he scored the full 100 points three times and 99 points three times, so that he came to 597 total points and took third place. He received the bronze medal behind Arthur Cook and Walter Tomsen .

In 1939 he was runner- up in Lucerne with the team in prone position with the small-bore rifle . Eight years later he won the title in this discipline in Stockholm , while he was second in the standing attack team competition as well as in the individual horizontal attack. In the kneeling position he was third with the team. In 1949 he took second place in a three-position battle with the team in Buenos Aires . In the discipline with the free rifle, he won the bronze medal in both the individual and team competition in the three-position battle.

Web links

• Jonas Jonsson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Jonas Jonsson at the Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shooting at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .