Personal information | |
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Full name | Marcus Ricard Åkerholm |
Nationality | ![]() |
Born | Flen, Uppsala, Sweden | 29 February 1976
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Shooting |
Event | 10 m air rifle ( AR60) |
Club | Uppsala Skyttegille [1] |
Coached by | Stefan Lindblom [1] |
Marcus Ricard Åkerholm (born 29 February 1976 in Flen, Uppsala) is a Swedish sport shooter. [2] He has been selected to compete for Sweden in air rifle shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has attained numerous top ten finishes in a major international competition, spanning the World and European Championships and the ISSF World Cup series. [1] Åkerholm trains under head coach Stefan Lindblom for the national team, while shooting at a rifle gun range in Uppsala ( Swedish: Uppsala Skyttegille). [1]
Åkerholm qualified for the Swedish team in the men's 10 m air rifle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 594 to gain an Olympic quota place and join with fellow marksman Sven Haglund for Sweden, following his outside-final finish at the Worlds two years earlier. [3] [4] Åkerholm shot a steady 588 out of a possible 600 to tie for thirty-third position with Kyrgyzstan's Aleksandr Babchenko in the qualifying round, failing to reach the Olympic final and trailing Haglund throughout the phase by just a single point. [5] [6]