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Jenny Stene
Jenny Stene (born 8 March 1998) is a Norwegian Shooting sports, sport shooter. Her achievements include winning an individual silver medal and team gold medal in rifle shooting at the ISSF World Shooting Championships, as well as winning both individual gold medal and team gold medal at the 2023 European Games. Biography Stene was Born in Lørenskog on 8 March 1998. 2021 At the 2021 European Shooting Championships she won a silver medal in 50 m rifle 3 positions team, along with Katrine Lund and Jeanette Hegg Duestad. She won a bronze medal in 50 m rifle 3 positions mixed team, along with Simon Claussen. She represented Norway at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, competing in Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air rifle, women's 10 metre air rifle and in 50 metre rifle three positions. 2022 Competing at the 2022 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Cairo, she won a silver medal in 50 m rifle 3 positions, behind winner Miao Wanru, and ahead of bronz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lørenskog
is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. A suburb of Oslo, it is part of the Oslo urban area and the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lørenskog. Lørenskog was separated from the municipality of Skedsmo on 1 January 1908. General information Name The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old (and no longer existent) ''Leirheimr'' farm. The first element is ''leirr'' which means "clay" and the last element is ''heimr'' which means "homestead" or "farm". Thus: "the farm built on clay ground". The suffix ''skógr'' (meaning "wood") was added later, changing the meaning to "the woodlands around the farm ''Leirheimr''". Prior to 1918, the name was spelled "Lørenskogen". Heraldry Lørenskog's arms date from modern times. Granted on 26 July 1957, they show a red waterwheel on a gold background. Water-driven sawmills were once an important part of the municipality's economy. Lørensk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrine Lund
Katrine Aannestad Lund (born 9 November 1994) is a Norwegian sport shooter. Her achievements include winning an individual gold medal in rifle shooting at the 2023 ISSF World Shooting Championships, and several team medals at the world championships. Personal life Lund was born in Kongsberg in 1994. She grew up in Jondalen and is a sister of sport shooter Kim-André Lund. Career 2021 At the 2021 European Shooting Championships, she won a silver medal in 50 m rifle 3 positions team, along with Jeanette Hegg Duestad and Jenny Stene. She also competed in 10 m air rifle team, along with Jeanette Hegg Duestad and Jenny Stene, and they reached the bronze final where they were defeated by Romania. 2022 Competing at the 2022 ISSF World Shooting Championships, Lund won a gold medal in 300 m rifle 3 positions team, with team mates Jeanette Hegg Duestad and Jenny Vatne, defeating a Swiss team in the final. With Duestad and Vatne, she also won gold medal in 300 m rifle prone team. 2023 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osijek
Osijek () is the fourth-largest city in Croatia, with a population of 96,848 in 2021. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja County. Osijek is located on the right bank of the Drava River, upstream of its confluence with the Danube, at an elevation of . Name The name was given to the city due to its position on elevated ground, which prevented the city being flooded by the local swamp waters. Its name "Osijek" derives from the Croatian word ''oseka'', which means "ebb tide". Due to its history within the Habsburg monarchy and briefly in the Ottoman Empire, as well as the presence of German, Hungarian, and Serbian minorities throughout its history, Osijek has (or had) its names in other languages, Осек/Osek or Осијек/Osijek in Serbian, Hungarian: ''Eszék'', german: link=no, Esseg or Essegg, tr, Ösek, la, Essek. It is also spelled ''Esgek''. Its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 European Championships 25m & 50m Events
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inside The Games
''Inside the Games'' (also known as insidethegames and insidethegames.biz) is an Olympic news website edited by the British sports journalist Duncan Mackay. Mackay launched the site in 2005, originally as insidethegames.com, following the announcement that London has been chosen to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. The name of the site was changed to insidethegames.biz in 2009. ''Inside the Games'' is based in Bletchley, near Bletchley Park. Mackay was a winner of the 2009 Internet writer of the year award at the British Sports Journalism Awards by the Sports Journalists' Association for his work on insidethegames. The insidethegames site was involved in a court litigation in 2010 with Zulu Creative, a web design company previously used by insidethegames. The site is currently published by Dunsar Media. In addition to the Olympics, the site now covers Paralympics, Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari Bårdseng Løvseth
Mari Bårdseng Løvseth (born 3 June 2000) is a Norwegian sport shooter. Her achievements include winning a team gold medal at the 2023 European Games. She was also part of the Norwegian teams who won a gold medal at the 2022 ISSF World Cup in Baku, and a bronze medal at the 2022 European 25/50 m Events Championships in Wrocław. At the 2023 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Baku, she won a silver medal in 50 m rifle prone team, along with Jenny Stene and Jeanette Hegg Duestad, closely behind the Swiss winning team. In May 2024 she won a team silver medal for Norway (behind Switzerland) in 50 metre rifle match at the 2024 European Championships 25m & 50m events in Osijek Osijek () is the fourth-largest city in Croatia, with a population of 96,848 in 2021. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja ..., along with team mates Jeanette Hegg Duestad and Jenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2023 European Games
Shooting events at the 2023 European Games were held at the Wrocław Shooting Centre from 22 June to 2 July 2023. Thirty events were programmed, twelve individual (as in the program of the Paris Olympics), twelve by teams and six by mixed teams. Calendar Qualification The highest ranked athlete in each individual event at the 2023 European Games will obtain a non-nominative quota for their NOC for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games . NOCs may enter a maximum of two athletes in each of the individual events, and a maximum of two mixed teams in each of the mixed team events composed of the same athletes who have qualified and are eligible to compete in the individual events and a maximum of one team in each of the team events. Individual quotas are distributed via: * 144 quotas (i.e. 12 per event) are distributed based on the respective results at the last European championships: ** 2022 European Shotgun Championships (Larnaca, Sept. 2022), ** 2022 European 25/50 m Events Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrik Larsen (sport Shooter)
Henrik Larsen (born 8 September 1997) is a Norwegian sport shooter. His achievements include individual gold and silver medals at the European championships, and team gold medals both in World and European championships. He holds a team world record in 50 metre rifle three positions since 2021. Biography Larsen was born in Fredrikstad on 8 September 1997. He enrolled at the University of Kentucky (UK) in 2017, but only spent the 2017–18 school year there. During his year at UK, he competed for the school's rifle team, leading the Wildcats to an NCAA team title, winning the individual NCAA title in air rifle, and being named a first-team All-American in all three possible disciplines (air rifle, smallbore, aggregate). 2021 Competing at the 2021 European Shooting Championships in Croatia, Larsen won an individual gold medal in 50 m rifle prone. This was Larsen's first international medal in senior championships. He won a silver medal in 50 m rifle 3 positions, behind winne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification
This article details the qualifying phase for shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics. 300 quota places for the Games are entitled to the shooters coming from their respective NOCs, based on the results at designated ISSF supervised Championships subjected to the ISSF rules from 14 August 2022 to 9 June 2024. Host nation France has been guaranteed twelve quota places with one in each of the individual events. Highest-ranked shooter, who has not qualified yet or whose NOC does not have more than one berth in the respective event, will obtain a direct Olympic quota place through the World Rankings. The remaining sixteen quota places are available to the eligible NOCs under the Tripartite Commission Invitation to attain a maximum number of 340. Timeline Qualification summary 50 m rifle three positions men 10 m air rifle men 25 m rapid fire pistol men 10 m air pistol men Trap men Skeet men 50 m rifle three positions women 10 m air rifle women 25 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miao Wanru
Miao Wanru (born 16 May 2000) is a Chinese sports shooter. She won two medals in air rifle events at the 2022 ISSF World Shooting Championships The 1st ISSF Rifle/Pistol World Shooting Championships were held in Cairo, Egypt from 12 to 27 October 2022 in 78 events. This also served as qualification event for 2024 Summer Olympics. Medals Senior Medal summary Senior Men Women Mixed .... References 2000 births Chinese female sport shooters Living people {{PRChina-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 Metre Air Rifle
The women's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 24 July 2021 at the Asaka Shooting Range. Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. Schedule All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9 UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00. During the Japanese occupations of British Borneo, Burma, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Philippines, Singapore, and French Indochina, it was used as a common time with ...) Results Qualification Final References {{DEFAULTSORT:Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Women's 10 metre air rifle Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics 2021 in women's shooting sports Women's events at the 2020 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Economy of Japan, Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
