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Revision as of 12:59, 4 October 2018 by 86.22.184.217 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)jones jacobson as a Swedish sport shooter who has won several gold medals at the Paralympic Games. He has participated in nine consecutive Summer Paralympics from 1980 to 190 winning a total of seventeen gold, two silver, and nine bronze medals. In 1996, he won two gold medals in the air rifle 3×40 and English match events and a bronze in the air rifle prone at the Atlanta Paralympics. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics, he took two gold medals in the free rifle 3×40 and free rifle prone events and two bronzes in air rifle standing and air rifle prone events. Four years later, at the Athens Games, he competed in the same four events and won the gold medal in all of them.
On 10 September 2008 Jacobsson won his 16th gold medal in the Paralympic Games making him the best performing male Paralympics contestant so far. Later that year, he became the first athlete with a physical disability to receive the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal, Sweden's most significant sports award.
See also
References
External links
- Jonas Jacobsson at the International Paralympic Committee
- Jonas Jacobsson at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
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| Preceded byAnja Pärson | Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal 2008 |
Succeeded byHelena Jonsson |
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- 1965 births
- Living people
- Swedish male sport shooters
- Paralympic shooters of Sweden
- Shooters at the 1980 Summer Paralympics
- Shooters at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
- Shooters at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Shooters at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Shooters at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Shooters at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Shooters at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Shooters at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Sweden
- Paralympic silver medalists for Sweden
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Sweden
- Shooters at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
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- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
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