Emil Martinsson, sometimes known as Emil Andersson (born 14 November 1979) is a Swedish
running target sport shooter
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who won several medals at the
ISSF World Shooting Championships
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.
He competed with his birth name Emil Andersson until 2009, when he married and chose to acquire the surname of his wife Martinsson, as permitted by Swedish law.
Biography
Martinsson was fourth in the
Running Target, 10 metres at
Athens 2004.
He grew up close to the
Småland
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Småland borders Blekinge, Scania, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name ''Småland'' literally means "small la ...
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Skåne
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border, but now lives in
Strömsund
Strömsund (; ) is a locality and the seat of Strömsund Municipality in Jämtland County, Sweden with 3,589 inhabitants in 2010.
The church (''Ströms kyrka'') was inaugurated in 1847.The Grand Hotel dates to 1909. The Court House (''Tingshuse ...
,
Jämtland
Jämtland () is a historical provinces of Sweden, province () in the centre of Sweden in northern Europe. It borders Härjedalen and Medelpad to the south, Ångermanland to the east, Lapland, Sweden, Lapland to the north and Trøndelag and Norw ...
. His trainer is Claes Johansson. At the
2008 World Running Target Championships, Martinsson became the first ever
10 metre running target
10 meter running target is one of the ISSF shooting events, shot with an airgun at a target that moves sideways. The target is pulled across a two meter wide aisle at the range of 10 meters from the firing point. The target is pulled at either o ...
World Champion in a knockout format. He defeated top seed
Vladyslav Prianishnikov in the semifinal (6–3) and then scored seven straight tens in the final, winning it with 6–1 over
Miroslav Januš. Martinsson defeated his title at the
2009 World Running Target Championships, once again scoring straight tens in the final.
Prior to this, Martinsson had won two individual world championship medals: a silver in
50 metre running target mixed at the
2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships and a bronze in
10 metre running target mixed in 2008. He also participated in the
last Olympic running target competition which was held in 2004, reaching the final and finishing fourth, missing the bronze medal by 0.3 points. At the
2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships The 49th ISSF World Shooting Championships were held in Zagreb, Croatia from July 22, 2006, to August 5, 2006.
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Medal count
World records
A total of 15 world records were bettered or equalled during the championships.
Rifle even ...
he failed to win an individual medal, but was part of the Swedish team that won medals in all four team events (one silver and three bronze).
Martinsson holds several Swedish records; his
50 metre running target record is 598 points, two points
higher than the world record.
Individual and team medals at World Championships
Individual medals at the European Championships
References
External links
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Living people
1979 births
Swedish male sport shooters
Running target shooters
Olympic shooters for Sweden
Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
People from Älmhult Municipality
Sportspeople from Kronoberg County