Martin Gunnarsson

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Martin Gunnarsson medal table

Sport shooting

United StatesUnited States United States
Olympic games
bronze Tokyo 1964 FG three position fight 300 m
World championships
bronze Wiesbaden 1966 SG three position fight 300 m (M)
Pan American Games
gold Chicago 1959 FG horizontal 300 m (M)
gold São Paulo 1963 FG horizontal 300 m (M)

Martin Ingemar Gunnarsson (born March 30, 1927 in Töreboda , Sweden , † September 23, 1982 in Columbus ) was an American sports shooter .

successes

Martin Gunnarsson emigrated from Sweden to the United States. He took part in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo , where he started in a three-position fight with the free rifle. With 1136 points, he finished third behind Gary Anderson and Schota Kweliaschwili , so he won the bronze medal. Two years later, at the World Championships in Wiesbaden, he also won the bronze medal in the three-position team competition with the standard rifle. At Pan-American Games , he won gold twice: both in 1959 in Chicago and in 1963 in São Paulo , he finished the team competition with the free rifle in the prone position in first place.

Martin Gunnarsson served in the US Army . In 2017 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the U.S. Shooting Association.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shooting at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Accessed November 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Marksmen Etzel, Kimes, Gunnarsson and Haldeman to be Inducted into USA Shooting Hall of Fame. In: usashooting.org. USA Shooting , August 3, 2017, accessed November 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gunnarsson, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gunnarsson, Martin Ingemar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American marksman
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Töreboda , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH 23rd September 1982
Place of death Columbus , United States