Sven Johansson (marksman)

Sven Johansson medal table
Sport shooting
Sweden
Olympic games
bronze	Moscow 1980	KK three position fight 50 m
World championships
bronze	Phoenix 1970	KK kneeling 50 m
bronze	Seoul 1978	KK three position fight 50 m (M)
bronze	Seoul 1978	KK standing 50 m (M)

Sven Våge Kenneth Johansson (born January 1, 1945 in Värnamo ) is a former Swedish sports shooter .

successes

Sven Johansson took part in four Olympic Games . At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , he took 13th place with the free rifle in the three-position fight, while he reached 17th place with the small-bore rifle in the prone position and 18th in the three-position fight. In 1972 he did not get over the 23rd place in Munich with the free rifle, and with the small bore in the prone position not over the 39th and in the three-position fight not over the 26th place. Four years later in Montreal he only competed in the two competitions with the small-bore rifle. In the prone position he reached 31st place, in the three-position battle, however, he placed fifth in the top ten for the first time. He finished the 1980 Games in Moscow in a lying position in 18th place. He finished the three-position battle with 1165 points in third place and thus won the bronze medal behind Wiktor Wlassow and Bernd Hartstein .

In 1970 he won the bronze medal in the individual kneeling attack with the small bore rifle at the World Championships in Phoenix . In 1978 he won two more bronze medals in Seoul when he was third in the team competition with the small-bore rifle in the three-position fight and in the standing position. At the European Championships in 1971 in Suhl, he won the title in the singles recumbent attack with the small bore.

Web links

• Sven Johansson in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)
• Sven Johansson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Sven Johansson at the Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté (Swedish)