Jonas Jacobsson
Jonas Jacobsson (born 22 June 1965) is a
Swedish sport shooter who has won several gold medals at the
Paralympic Games. He participated in ten consecutive
Summer Paralympics from 1980 to 2016, winning a total of seventeen gold, four 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.
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