Headercolor: | lightblue |
Hans-Jörg Meyer | |
Birth Date: | 10 April 1964 |
Birth Place: | Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, West Germany |
Weight: | 760NaN0 |
Sport: | Shooting |
Event: | 10 m air pistol (AP60) 50 m pistol (FP) |
Club: | Schützenbund Broistedt |
Coach: | Philip Bernhard |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Hans-Jörg Meyer (born April 10, 1964 in Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony) is a German sport shooter.[1] He won a silver medal in the men's 50 m free pistol at the 2009 European Shooting Championships in Osijek, Croatia, accumulating a score of 653.8 targets.[2] [3]
At age forty-four, Meyer made his official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in two pistol shooting events, along with his teammate Florian Schmidt. He scored a total of 577 targets in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air pistol, by one point ahead of Belarus' Yury Dauhapolau from the final attempt, finishing only in twenty-first place.[4] Three days later, Meyer placed thirteenth in his second event, 50 m pistol, by two points ahead of U.S. shooter Daryl Szarenski, with a total score of 557 targets.[5]