Synnøve Berg
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| Nationality | Norwegian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 June 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Kisen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Synnøve Berg (born 19 June 2007) is a Norwegian sport shooter. Her achievements include winning individual gold medals at both the ISSF Junior World Championships and the European Shooting Championships, junior class. She qualified for and was selected to represent Norway at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Biography
[edit]Born on 19 June 2007, Berg represents the club Kisen Miniatyrskytterlag.[1] As of 2024, she is a student at the sports academy Norges Toppidrettsgymnas in Kongsvinger.[2]
2023
[edit]Winning gold medal in 10 m air rifle at the 2023 ISSF Junior World Championships in Changwon in July 2023, Berg was the first Norwegian woman to win this title.[3]
2024
[edit]At the 2024 European 10 m Events Championships in Győr in Februaru 2024, Berg won a gold medal in air rifle women juniors.[4][5]
At the 2024 ISSF Qualification Tournament in Rio de Janeiro, her result qualified for adding to the Norwegian quota for the 2024 Olympics.[6][7] She was selected to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, along with five other Norwegian shooters.[8] She was set to compete both individually and in the mixed team event.[2] Her first competition in the Olympics was in mixed air rifle team with team mate Ole Martin Halvorsen.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Synnøve Berg". teamnor.no. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ a b "Synnøve Berg er tatt ut til OL i Paris!". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 18 June 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
- ^ "Berg tok tidenes første norske gullmedalje i junior-VM i luftrifle". vg.no (in Norwegian). 18 July 2023. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
- ^ "Suveren EM-tittel til norsk supertalent – tok første gull på 25 år". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 26 February 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
- ^ "Suveren EM-tittel til norsk supertalent". dagsavisen.no (in Norwegian). 26 February 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
- ^ "Synnøve (16) sikret OL-plass". tv2.no (in Norwegian). 16 April 2024. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Synnøve Berg sikret skytterne nok en OL-plass". radioh.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 10 July 2024.
- ^ "16 utøvere tatt ut i tredje uttak til OL i Paris" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Olympiatoppen. 18 June 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
- ^ Fange, Per Øyvind; Solbakken, Hans; Svarstad, Anne (27 July 2024). "OL-drama: Tapte med 0,1 poeng i sluttsekundene". nrk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 27 July 2024.
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