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Michael Winter | |
Birth Date: | 20 May 1976 |
Birth Place: | Munich, West Germany |
Weight: | 750NaN0 |
Sport: | Shooting |
Event: | 10 m air rifle (AR60) 50 m rifle prone (FR60PR) 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20) |
Club: | HSG München |
Coach: | Claus Dieter Roth |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Michael Winter (born May 20, 1976 in Munich) is a German sport shooter.[1] [2] Winter represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for all three rifle shooting events.
In his first event, 10 m air rifle, Winter was able to hit a total of 588 points within six attempts, finishing thirty-sixth in the qualifying rounds.[3] Few days later, he placed thirty-first in the 50 m rifle prone, by one target ahead of Switzerland's Marcel Bürge from the final attempt, with a total score of 590 points.[4] In his third and last event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, Winter was able to shoot 396 targets in a prone position, and 385 each in standing and in kneeling, for a total score of 1,166 points, finishing only in seventeenth place.[5]