Anne Grethe Jeppesen (born 1 November 1957) is a Norwegian retired

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and coach. Her achievements include medals in rifle shooting at world and European championships, a fifth place at the Olympics, and seventeen individual national titles. She has coached the Norwegian, Scottish and Danish national rifle shooting teams.

Career

Personal life

Born in

Florø is a town and the administrative centre of the municipality of Kinn which is in Vestland county, Norway. The town was founded by royal decree in 1860 as a ladested on the island of Florelandet, located between the Botnafjorden and Solheimsfjord ...

on 1 November 1957, Jeppesen is married to sports shooter, world champion and Olympic medalist

Harald Stenvaag Harald Stenvaag (born 5 March 1953) is a Norwegian rifle shooter who started competing internationally at the ISSF World Shooting Championships in Switzerland in 1974. He has represented Norway in the Summer Olympics 6 times, and has two Olympi ...

. Both her father and grandfather were sports shooters as well, and her father began taking her to competitions at a young age. She took up the sport herself when she was 11, though she at first struggled with the idea that a girl could be involved in shooting.

Shooting career

Her first international competition was the 1976 European 10 m Championships, where she met her future husband. She competed at the

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, where she placed fifth in the 50 metres small-bore rifle (three positions), and tied 11th in the

10 metre air rifle 10 meter air rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) shooting event, shot at a bullseye target over a distance of using a calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of . It is one of the ISSF sports governed in shooting spor ...

. A Nordic champion in air rifle in 1979 and 1981, Jeppesen won a gold medal in 10 m air rifle at the 1981

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in Athens. The next time this gold went to a woman from Norway was when Jeanette Hegg Duestad won in 2023. In 1981, she also won a team silver medal at the ISSF air rifle World Championships, Women Team. She won a total of 17 individual national titles.

Coaching career

After her active career, Jeppesen coached the Norwegian national shooting teams over several periods, and was head coach for the senior team until 2016. She later coached the Scottish national rifle team from 2016, and the Danish national rifle team from 2018. Her publications include from 2005, co-written with Anne Marie Pensgaard and published as ''Mental Training in Shooting'' in English in 2006.

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* 1957 births Living people People from Flora, Norway Norwegian female sport shooters Olympic shooters for Norway Shooters at the 1984 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Vestland Norwegian sports coaches 20th-century Norwegian sportswomen {{Authority control