Christoph Schmid (born 5 August 1982 in

Zug , neighboring_municipalities = Cham, Baar, Walchwil, Steinhausen, Unterägeri , twintowns = Fürstenfeld (Austria), Kalesija (Bosnia-Herzegowina) Zug (Standard German: , Alemannic German: ; french: Zoug it, Zugo r ...

) is a Swiss sport shooter. He won a silver medal in the men's 50 m free pistol at the

2007 ISSF World Cup The 2007 ISSF World Cup was held in the fifteen Olympic shooting events. Four qualification events were held in each event, spanning from March to July, and the best shooters qualified for the ISSF World Cup Final in October, which was held in Bang ...

series in

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, accumulating a score of 659.7 points.

Career

Schmid represented

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

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, 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

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from the final attempt, finishing only in thirty-third place. Three days later, Schmid placed fortieth in his second event,

50 m pistol The 50 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called Free Pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It provides the purest precision shooting among the pistol events, and is one of the oldest shooting disciplines, dating back to th ...

, by one point behind Poland's Wojciech Knapik, with a total score of 542 targets.

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* * * * 1982 births Living people Swiss male sport shooters Olympic shooters of Switzerland Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics People from Zug Sportspeople from the canton of Zug {{Switzerland-sportshooting-bio-stub