Eric Swinkels (born 30 March 1949) is a Dutch

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and Olympic medalist. He won a silver medal in

skeet shooting Skeet shooting is a recreational and competitive activity whose participants use shotguns to attempt to break clay targets which two fixed stations mechanically fling into the air at high speed and at a variety of angles. Skeet is one of the ...

at the

1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal ...

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."1976 Summer Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Shooting"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 9, 2008) He competed in six different Olympic competitions, beginning in

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...

and ending in

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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Living people 1949 births Dutch male sport shooters Skeet shooters Olympic shooters for the Netherlands Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands People from Best, Netherlands Shooters at the 1972 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1976 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1984 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1988 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1992 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from North Brabant 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-sportshooting-bio-stub

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