Harald Stenvaag

Harald Stenvaag
Personal information
Born5 March 1953 (1953-03-05) (age 73)
Medal record
Men's shooting
Representing  Norway
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place1992 Barcelona50 m rifle prone
Bronze medal – third place2000 Sydney50 m rifle 3 pos
World Championships
Gold medal – first place1982 Caracas300m Standard Rifle
Gold medal – first place1990 Moscow300m Rifle Prone
Gold medal – first place1991 Stavanger10m Air Rifle
Silver medal – second place1982 Caracas50m Rifle Standing
Silver medal – second place1986 Skoevde300m Standard Rifle
Silver medal – second place1986 Skoevde300m Free Rifle Rifle Prone
Silver medal – second place1990 Moscow50m Rifle Prone
Bronze medal – third place1986 Suhl50m Rifle Standing
Bronze medal – third place1987 Budapest10m Air Rifle

Harald Stenvaag (born 5 March 1953) is a Norwegian rifle shooter who started competing internationally at the ISSF World Shooting Championships in Switzerland in 1974. He has represented Norway in the Summer Olympics 6 times, and has two Olympic medals. He has a total of 67 international medals in the Olympics, World Shooting Championships and the European Shooting Championships in his career. He was born in Ålesund.[1]

He is running his own shooting business called Stenvaag våpensenter as in Asker outside of Oslo.

Olympic results

Event 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004
50 metre rifle three positions 14th
1145
7th
1173+98.7
5th
1166+98.6
41st
1153
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bronze
1175+93.6
30th
1149
50 metre rifle prone 17th
591
— 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silver
597+104.4
30th
592
13th
594
16th
592
10 metre air rifle 7th
582
5th
591+101.0
18th
587
— — —

Records

Current world records held in 300 metre rifle prone
Men Individual600 Harald Stenvaag (NOR)
 Bernd Rücker (GER)
 Josselin Henry (FRA)
 Vebjørn Berg (NOR)
 Stefan Raser (AUT)
 Remi Moreno Flores (FRA)
 Karl Olsson (SWE)
15 August 1990
31 July 1994
5 August 2010
5 August 2010
27 July 2015
23 September 2019
23 September 2019
Moscow (URS)
Tolmezzo (ITA)
Munich (GER)
Munich (GER)
Maribor (SLO)
Tolmezzo (ITA)
Tolmezzo (ITA)

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Harald Stenvaag". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.