Christoph Schmid (born 5 August 1982 in

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) is a Swiss sport shooter. He won a silver medal in the men's 50 m free pistol at the

2007 ISSF World Cup The 2007 ISSF World Cup was held in the fifteen Olympic shooting events. Four qualification events were held in each event, spanning from March to July, and the best shooters qualified for the ISSF World Cup Final in October, which was held in Bang ...

series in

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, accumulating a score of 659.7 points.

Career

Schmid represented

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at the

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, where he competed in two pistol shooting events. He scored a total of 573 targets in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air pistol, by two points behind Australia's Daniel Repacholi from the final attempt, finishing in thirty-third place. Three days later, Schmid placed fortieth in his second event,

50 m pistol 50 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called Free Pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It is one of the oldest shooting disciplines, dating back to the 19th century and only having seen marginal rule changes since 1936. I ...

, by one point behind Poland's Wojciech Knapik, with a total score of 542 targets.

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* * * * 1982 births Living people Swiss male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Switzerland Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Zug 21st-century Swiss sportsmen {{Switzerland-sportshooting-bio-stub