Christian Klees (born 24 June 1968 in

Eutin Eutin () is the district capital of Ostholstein, Eastern Holstein county located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of 2020, the town had some 17,000 inhabitants. History The name Eutin (originally Utin) is of Slavic origin. I ...

) is a German former sport shooter, the first shooter since the 1989 target change to have achieved the maximum score (600) in the

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event at the

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, which was later replicated by Sergei Martynov at the

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. He did this in at the

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. His excellent final of 104.8 (out of maximal 109.0) also gave him the gold medal,Olympic results
/ref> as well as an aggregate result that was eventually surpassed by Martynov during the 2012 Summer Olympics, 16 years after his victory in Atlanta. Klees left the international shooting scene after the 2001 season.

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1968 births Living people German male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Germany Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Germany ISSF rifle shooters World record holders in shooting People from Eutin Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Schleswig-Holstein {{Germany-sportshooting-bio-stub