Thomas Farnik

Thomas Farnik
Thomas Farnik 2012
nation	Austria
birthday	January 6, 1967
place of birth	Vienna, AUT
Career
discipline	Sport shooting
Classes	Air rifle (LG) small caliber (KK) large caliber (GK)
society	OMV Prottes
status	not active
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 1 × 1 × EM medals 2 × 2 × 2 ×
last change: March 14, 2013

Thomas Farnik (born January 6, 1967 in Vienna ) is an Austrian sports shooter .

Career

Farnik is one of the few athletes to have competed in the Olympics five times . He strengthened the Austrian squad at all games between 1992 and 2008. He also had an international quota place for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, but did not start there.

He is a member of the OMV Schützengilde Prottes and Hietzinger Sportschützen (SSV13).

successes

Farnik (r.) With the Austrian sports shooting team and Federal President Heinz Fischer before the 2012 Summer Olympics

In addition to setting several world records, the native of Vienna also achieved other successes:

Greatest successes:

• 1st World Championship standard rifle 2006 Zagreb
• 1st WM KK-3 team 2006
• 2nd WC GK-3 team 2006
• 3rd World Cup LG Team 2006
• 1st EM KK-3 team 2003
• 1st EM LG Team 2005
• 2nd EM GK-3 team 2003
• 3rd EM Large Caliber-3 2003
• 3rd EM LG Team 2009
• Overall World Cup winner 2006 (LG)
• Olympia 1992: 6th LG, 14th KK-3
• Olympia 1996: 13th KK-3, 42nd KK lying
• Olympia 2000: 17th KK-3, 18th LG, 44th KK lying
• Olympia 2004: 6th KK-3, 12th LG
• Olympia 2008: 5th KK-3, 10th LG
• World shooter of the year 1997
• Multiple World Cup winner, national champion, national champion

Awards (excerpt)

• 1997: Silver medal for services to the Republic of Austria
• 2007: Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

• Official website
• Thomas Farnik for the fifth time at the Olympics. In: noe.orf.at. Accessed December 7, 2015 .