Eric Swinkels (born 30 March 1949) is a Dutch

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and Olympic medalist. He won a silver medal in

skeet shooting Skeet shooting is a recreational and competitive activity where participants use shotguns to attempt to break clay targets which two fixed stations mechanically fling into the air at high speed and at a variety of angles. Skeet is one of the t ...

at the

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''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 9, 2008) He competed in six different Olympic competitions, beginning in

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...

and ending in

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Living people 1949 births Dutch male sport shooters Skeet shooters Olympic shooters of the Netherlands Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands People from Best, Netherlands Shooters at the 1972 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1976 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1984 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1988 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1992 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from North Brabant 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-sportshooting-bio-stub

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