Marko Kemppainen (born 13 July 1976 in

Kajaani Kajaani (; ), is a town in Finland and the regional capital of Kainuu. Kajaani is located southeast of Oulujärvi, Lake Oulu, which drains into the Gulf of Bothnia through the Oulujoki, Oulu River. The population of Kajaani is approximately , w ...

) is a Finnish sports shooter. He competes 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 ...

. He was a silver medallist at the

2004 Summer Olympics 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 ...

Kemppainen won a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championship in

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. He represented Finland at the 2004 Summer Olympics. By winning the silver medal in men's skeet event he took the first medal for Finland in the Athens Olympics.

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1976 births Living people Sportspeople from Kajaani Finnish male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Finland Olympic silver medalists for Finland Skeet shooters Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in shooting Shooters at the 2015 European Games European Games bronze medalists for Finland European Games medalists in shooting Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics 20th-century Finnish people 21st-century Finnish people {{Finland-sportshooting-bio-stub