Sven Anders Fredrik Haglund (born January 13, 1980, in

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) is a Swedish sport shooter. He has been selected to compete for

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in rifle shooting at the

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, and has attained numerous top ten finishes in a major international competition, spanning the

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series and the

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. Haglund trains under head coach Stefan Lindblom for the national team, while shooting at Trollhättans Sportskytte. Haglund qualified for the Swedish team in rifle shooting at the

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. He managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 1168 in the rifle three positions to gain an Olympic quota place for

, following his fourth-place finish at the

meet in

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a year earlier. In the

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, Haglund shot a steady 589 out of a possible 600 to tie for twenty-ninth with three other shooters. Haglund also marked a total score of 1142 points (393 in prone, 372 in standing, and 377 in the kneeling) in his signature event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, finishing haplessly in a lowly thirty-fifth position out of forty shooters.

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Athlete Bio – Swedish Olympic Committee
1980 births Living people Swedish male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Sweden Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Trollhättan Sport shooters from Västra Götaland County 20th-century Swedish people 21st-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-sportshooting-bio-stub