| Roger Hansson | |
| Fullname: | Christer Mats Roger Hansson |
| Birth Date: | 3 April 1970 |
| Birth Place: | Kalmar, Sweden |
| Weight: | 800NaN0 |
| Sport: | Shooting |
| Event: | 10 m air rifle (AR60) 50 m rifle prone (FR60PR) 50 m rifle 3 positions (FR3X40) |
| Club: | Mönsterås SF |
| Coach: | Stefan Lindblom |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Christer Mats Roger Hansson (born 3 April 1970, in Kalmar) is a Swedish sport shooter.[1] He has competed for Sweden in rifle shooting at two Olympics (2000 and 2004), and has attained numerous top ten finishes in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series and the European Championships,[2] Hansson trains under head coach Stefan Lindblom for the national team, while shooting at Mönsterås SF.[2] [3]
Hansson's Olympic debut came as a 30-year-old in rifle shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, he finished a lowly twenty-seventh in the air rifle with 587 points, and then shared a credible score of 594 with four other shooters for thirteenth place in the rifle prone.[4] [5] [6] Hansson also competed in his favorite event, the rifle three positions, where he shot a total of 1162, 396 in prone, 379 in standing, and 387 in kneeling, to tie for twelfth place with neighboring Norway's Espen Berg-Knutsen and Austria's Thomas Farnik, having been close to an Olympic final by just three points.[7]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Hansson decided to focus solely on small-bore rifle shooting in his second Games. He managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 596 in the rifle prone to gain an Olympic quota place for Sweden, following his outside-final finish at the European Championships in Plzeň, Czech Republic a year earlier.[8] [9] In the 50 m rifle prone, held a week after the start of the Games, Hansson fired 590 out of a possible 600 to force in a thirty-second place tie with fellow marksman and defending Olympic champion Jonas Edman, Ukraine's Yuriy Sukhorukov, and China's Yao Ye.[10] [11] Two days later, in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, Hansson bounced back from a disastrous rifle prone feat to shoot a total score of 1155 points (391 in prone, 378 in standing, and 386 in the kneeling) for twenty-fourth place, tying with Czech shooter Tomáš Jeřábek.[12]