Jozef Gönci (born 18 March 1974, in

Košice Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest cit ...

) is a Slovak

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, specialising in the 50 m Rifle and

10 m 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 ...

. Gönci won independent Slovakia's first ever Olympic Medal, a bronze in

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in 1996.Slovak Olympic Committee
/ref> He won another bronze medal eight years later at the

2004 Olympic Games The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

in Athens.

References

External links

Gönci's profile at ISSF NEWS
1974 births Living people Sportspeople from Košice ISSF rifle shooters Slovak male sport shooters Olympic bronze medalists for Slovakia Olympic shooters for Slovakia Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics 21st-century Slovak sportsmen {{Slovakia-sportshooting-bio-stub