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Michael Nielsen
Personal information
Full name	Michael Nielsen
Nationality	Denmark
Born	3 August 1975 (age 49); Roskilde, Denmark
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Weight	86 kg (190 lb)
Sport
Sport	Shooting
Event	Skeet (SK125)
Club	SK København
Coached by	Kjild Fristrup
Medal record
Men's shooting
Representing Denmark
European Championships

Michael Nielsen (born 3 August 1975 in Roskilde) is a Danish sport shooter.^[2] He won a silver medal in skeet shooting at the 2003 European Championships in Brno, Czech Republic, and eventually finished seventh at the 2004 Summer Olympics, competing for the Danish team.^[1] Nielsen trains under longtime coach Kjild Fristrup as a member of the shooting team at SK København.^[3]

Nielsen qualified for the Danish team in the men's skeet at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He had eclipsed a minimum qualifying score of 124 to strike a silver-medal finish and to grab one of the Olympic quota places available at the European Championships less than a year earlier.^[4]^[5] Clearly one of the top favorites vying for an Olympic medal, Nielsen nailed 122 targets out of a possible 125 to force a third-place tie with four other shooters in the qualifying round, but fell abruptly in a tight duel to neighboring Norway's Harald Jensen 2 to 1, who coveted the last seed for the six-man Olympic final, relegating him to seventh.^[6]^[7]

Nielsen is also married to pistol shooter and three-time Olympian Susanne Meyerhoff.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "ISSF Profile – Michael Nielsen". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Michael Nielsen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
^ Bjørn, Michael (4 June 2004). "Dansk OL-helt snuppede fra klubkassen" [Danish Olympic brand snatched from the club box] (in Danish). Ekstrabladet. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
^ "Grimmel og Nielsen udtaget til OL" [Grimmel and Nielsen qualified for the Olympics] (in Danish). BT. 20 August 2004. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
^ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
^ "Shooting: Men's Skeet Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
^ "Finalebom for Jensen, italiensk gull" [Final for Jensen, Italy wins gold] (in Norwegian). NRK. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
^ "OL-kandidat, bevæbnet og gravid" [Olympic athlete feels ready to be pregnant] (in Danish). DR.dk. 13 February 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2015.