Harald Stenvaag

Harald Stenvaag

Personal information
Born	5 March 1953 (1953-03-05) (age 71) Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Medal record Men's shooting Representing Norway Olympic Games Silver medal – second place 1992 Barcelona 50 m rifle prone Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney 50 m rifle 3 pos World Championships Gold medal – first place 1982 Caracas 300m Standard Rifle Gold medal – first place 1990 Moscow 300m Rifle Prone Gold medal – first place 1991 Stavanger 10m Air Rifle Silver medal – second place 1982 Caracas 50m Rifle Standing Silver medal – second place 1986 Skoevde 300m Standard Rifle Silver medal – second place 1986 Skoevde 300m Free Rifle Rifle Prone Silver medal – second place 1990 Moscow 50m Rifle Prone Bronze medal – third place 1986 Suhl 50m Rifle Standing Bronze medal – third place 1987 Budapest 10m 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. 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	Individual	600	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)

External links

• Homepage of Stenvaag våpensenter (in Norwegian)
• Harald Stenvaag at the International Shooting Sport Federation