Johannes Sauer

Johannes Sauer
Personal information
Nationality Canada
Born (1968-02-16) 16 February 1968 (age 56)
Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa[1]
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event50 m rifle prone (FR60PR)
ClubSCMRA[1]
Coached bySaul Miller[1]

Johannes Sauer (born 16 February 1968 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African-born Canadian sport shooter.[2] He is a two-time Canadian shooting champion, and a gold medalist for the rifle prone at the 2005 Championships of the Americas in Salinas, California.[1]

Sauer represented his adopted country of Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's 50 m rifle prone. He finished only in forty-fourth place by one point behind South Korea's Park Bong-Duk from the fifth attempt, for a total score of 587 targets.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "ISSF Profile – Johannes Sauer". ISSF. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Johannes Sauer". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Men's 50m Rifle Prone Qualification". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2013.


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