Jonas Andersson (archer)

Jonas Lennart Andersson (born 16 May 1979, in Fosie) is a Swedish archer. He lives in Trelleborg and competes for Trelleborgs BK. Jonas started shooting archery in 1993 as a compound archer and switched to Olympic archery in 1997. [1]

Jonas Andersson
Personal information
Full nameJonas Lennart Andersson
Born (1979-05-16) 16 May 1979
Sweden
Sport
Sportarchery (recurve)
Updated on 19 August 2015.

Andersson competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery.[1] He won his first match against David Barnes of Australia 160-151, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was defeated by Balzhinima Tsyrempilov of Russia. His final rank was 25th overall.

Andersson was also a member of the 9th-place Swedish men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics,[1] along with Mattias Eriksson and Magnus Petersson. With this team he previously won World Championship silver (in 2003) and gold (in 2002) medal in field archery. Jonas got the 7 place at the World Games in Akita(Japan) in 2001. Jonas has several nation titles in both target and field archery. He competed at the 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.[2]

Jonas is married to his wife Lisa and they have two daughters Tuva and Maya.

References
  1. "Jonas Andersson" (in Swedish). Swedish Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 25 February 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
  2. "2015 World Archery Championships: Entries by country" (PDF). ianseo.net. pp. 7–18. Retrieved 26 August 2015.


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