Christoph Schmid
Olympic pistol shooter
Intro | Olympic pistol shooter | |
Places | Switzerland | |
is | Sports shooter | |
Work field | Sports | |
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Birth | 5 August 1982, Zug | |
Age | 42 years |
Christoph Schmid (born August 5, 1982 in Zug) is a Swiss sport shooter. He won a silver medal in the men's 50 m free pistol at the 2007 ISSF World Cup series in Fort Benning, Georgia, accumulating a score of 659.7 points.
Schmid represented Switzerland at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in two pistol shooting events. He scored a total of 573 targets in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air pistol, by two points behind Australia's Daniel Repacholi from the final attempt, finishing only in thirty-third place. Three days later, Schmid placed fortieth in his second event, 50 m pistol, by one point behind Poland's Wojciech Knapik, with a total score of 542 targets.