Anne Grethe Jeppesen Explained

Anne Grethe Jeppesen
Birth Date:1 November 1957
Birth Place:Florø, Norway
Nationality:Norwegian
Spouse:Harald Stenvaag
Sport:Shooting

Anne Grethe Jeppesen (born 1 November 1957) is a Norwegian sports shooter and coach.

Her achievements include medals in rifle shooting at world and European championships, a fifth place at the Olympics, and seventeen individual national titles. She has coached the Norwegian, Scottish and Danish national rifle shooting teams.

Career

Personal life

Born in Florø on 1 November 1957, Jeppesen is married to sports shooter, world champion and Olympic medalist Harald Stenvaag.

Shooting career

She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where she placed fifth in the 50 metres small-bore rifle (three positions), and tied 11th in the 10 metre air rifle.[1]

A Nordic champion in air rifle in 1979 and 1981, Jeppesen won a gold medal in 10 m air rifle at the 1981 European 10 m Events Championships in Athens. Next time this gold went to a woman from Norway, was Jeanette Hegg Duestad's victory in 2023.[2] In 1981 she also won a team silver medal at the ISSF air rifle World Championships, Women Team.

She won a total of 17 individual national titles.

Coaching career

After her active career, Jeppesen coached the Norwegian national shooting teams over several periods, and was head coach for the senior team until 2016. She later coached the Scottish national rifle team from 2016, and the Danish national rifle team from 2018.

Her publications include Norwegian: Mental trening i skyting from 2005, co-written with Anne Marie Pensgaard.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anne Grethe Jeppesen . Sports-Reference . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418034103/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/je/anne-grethe-jeppesen-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 12 August 2012.
  2. News: Historiske 3 gull til Jeanette . Dag . Rønning . skyting.no . no . 13 March 2023 . 30 August 2023.