Carina Wimmer (born 27 August 1995 in

Mühldorf Mühldorf am Inn (, ; Central Bavarian: ''Muihdorf am Inn'') is a Town#Germany, town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the Mühldorf (district), district Mühldorf on the river Inn (river), Inn. It is located at , and had a population of ab ...

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) is a German pistol sport shooter. She will compete for

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, participating in the women's 10 metre air pistol and the mixed 10 metre air pistol team events.

Biography

Carina Wimmer was born on 27 August 1995 in

. She began sport shooting at the age of 10 with her sister. Wimmer is currently a student at the

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perusing a

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after receiving her

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in health science.

Career

2021 European Shooting Championships

At the

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, Wimmer competed in the women's 10 metre air pistol event and came first with 242.3 points, ahead of Russian

Vitalina Batsarashkina Vitalina Igorevna Batsarashkina ( rus, Виталина Игоревна Бацарашкина, , vʲɪtɐˈlʲinə bətsɐˈraʂkʲɪnə; born 1 October 1996) is a Russian sports shooter. She is a two-times Olympic champion and two-times Oly ...

and French Celine Goberville who achieved 242.0 and 218.6 points respectively. Wimmer also participated on Germany's 25 metre pistol team at the championships with

Doreen Vennekamp Doreen Vennekamp (born 5 April 1995) is a German sport shooter and World Champion. She participated at the 2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships, winning a medal. At the 2022 European Championships, she won the 25m Pistol Women's team title with ...

and Monika Karsch. The team won their final match against Bulgaria, clinching gold. Her gold medals granted her a quota spot at the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

2021 ISSF World Cup

At the

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in Osijek, Wimmer placed second in the women's 10 metre air pistol event, scoring 237.5 points, 2.5 points behind first place Bulgarian

Antoaneta Kostadinova Antoaneta Kostadinova, née Boneva (; born 17 January 1986) is a Bulgarian sport shooter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's 10 metre air pistol and the women's 25 metre pistol. At the 2020 Summer Olympics The off ...

. She was also a member of Germany's women's air pistol team with Sandra Reitz and Andrea Katharina Heckner. In the gold medal match on 25 June 2021, the team ended up six points short of beating the Bulgarian team, winning the silver medal.

2020 Summer Olympics

After her performance at the 2021 European Shooting Championships and 2021 ISSF World Cup, she qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in

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, whose events were postponed a year due to the

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. She will compete for Germany in the women's 10 metre air pistol and the mixed 10 metre air pistol team events. Wimmer is paired in the latter event with two-time Olympic medalist

Christian Reitz Christian Reitz (born 29 April 1987) is a German 25 metre rapid fire pistol shooter, the current world record holder. Career He rose to fame during 2005, the first year with the new equipment rules, but was defeated in that year's European J ...

References

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