| Niklas Bergström | |
| Fullname: | Lars Niklas Bergström |
| Nationality: | Swedish |
| Birth Date: | 18 August 1974 |
| Birth Place: | Karlstad, Sweden |
| Height: | 1.90 m |
| Weight: | 83 kg |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Sport: | Shooting |
| Event: | 10 m running target (10RT) 50 m running target (50RT) |
| Club: | Glaskogens JSK |
| Coach: | Claes Johansson |
| Show-Medals: | no |
Lars Niklas Bergström (born 18 August 1974) is a Swedish sport shooter.[1] He has been selected to compete for Sweden in running target shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has won a total of seventeen medals in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series, the World Championships, and the European Championships.[2] Bergstrom trains under head coach Claes Johansson for the national running target team, while shooting at Glaskogens JSK in Glava.[2] [3]
Bergström qualified for his first and only Swedish squad in the last Olympic running target competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[4] He finished behind U.S. shooter and three-time Olympian Adam Saathoff in a runner-up position at the ISSF World Cup meet a year earlier in Suhl, Germany to secure an Olympic berth for Sweden, and eventually join with fellow marksman Emil Andersson for the national team.[5] [6] Bergstrom marked a steady 286 in the slow-target portion and 285 in the fast-moving round to accumulate a total score of 571 points in the qualifying round, shutting him out of the Olympic final to twelfth in a 19-shooter field.[7] [8]
At the 2009 World Running Target Championships in Vierumäki, Finland, Bergström held off a strenuous challenge from Russia's Igor Kolessov to capture his first ever Worlds medal in a bronze medal duel 20 to 19, finishing third at 391 points.[9]