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Marcus Åkerholm

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Marcus Åkerholm
Personal information
Full nameMarcus Ricard Åkerholm
Nationality Sweden
Born (1976-02-29) 29 February 1976 (age 48)
Flen, Uppsala, Sweden
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10+12 in)
Weight86 kg (190 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event10 m air rifle (AR60)
ClubUppsala Skyttegille[1]
Coached byStefan 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]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "ISSF Profile – Sven Haglund". ISSF. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Marcus Åkerholm". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Här börjar svenska klassresan mot Aten" [Swedish athletes have begun their journey to Athens] (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 8 August 2005. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  5. ^ "Shooting: Men's 10m Air Rifle Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Archived from the original on 4 February 2006. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Svenska gevärsskyttarna långt ifrån den olympiska finalen" [Swedish rifle shooters missed the Olympic finals] (in Swedish). Östgöta Correspondenten. 10 August 2004. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
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