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Tor Heiestad (born January 13, 1962 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian sports shooter .

From the mid-1980s, Heiestad took part in international competitions in shooting at the running target , both over the 10-meter and the 50-meter distance. At the Olympic competitions in Seoul in 1988 , the then 26-year-old agricultural machinery mechanic won the gold medal ahead of the Chinese Huang Shiping and the Ukrainian Gennadij Avramenko . After the qualifying round, Heiestad and Awramenko were tied at the top with a score of 591 before the Norwegian was able to pull away in the final round and set a new Olympic record with a total of 689 points. After 36 years, Heiestad's gold medal marked the first Olympic victory by a Norwegian in shooting since John Larsen's success in 1952 . As a result of the triumph, Heiestad, next to the wrestler Jon Rønningen the only Norwegian Olympic champion from Seoul, received the Aftenposten gold medal and Fearnley's olympiske ærespris .

In the years that followed, Heiestad continued to successfully compete in international competitions and in 1990 won the European title over 10 meters. In 1992 he competed again at the Olympics, but in Barcelona he missed the finals and finished tenth in the victory of the German Michael Jakosits . Until the 2010s he took part in Norwegian Championships, in which he recorded a total of over 80 titles.

Web links

• Tor Heiestad in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Tor Heiestad in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)
• Ted Chan: Tor Heiestad, a mechanic who seldom competes in international ... on upi.com. Released September 23, 1988. Retrieved June 21, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dag Rønning: 100 m viltmål - nytt NM-gull til Tor Heiestad ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on skytter.forbundetonline.no. Released September 17, 2012. Accessed June 21, 2015.