Johannes Sauer (born 16 February 1968 in
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ...
,
South Africa
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) is a South African-born Canadian sport shooter. He is a two-time Canadian shooting champion, and a gold medalist for the rifle prone at the 2005 Championships of the Americas in
Salinas, California
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.
Sauer represented his adopted country of
Canada
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at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, where he competed in the
men's 50 m rifle prone. He finished only in forty-fourth place by one point behind South Korea's
Park Bong-Duk
Park Bong-Duk (also ''Pak Bong-Deok'', ko, 박 봉덕; born September 23, 1973 in Seoul) is a South Korean sport shooter. He won two bronze medals in the men's 50 m rifle three positions at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand, and at the ...
from the fifth attempt, for a total score of 587 targets.
References
External links
Profile – Canadian Olympic Team
Afrikaner people
Canadian male sport shooters
Living people
Olympic shooters for Canada
Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
South African emigrants to Canada
Sportspeople from Vancouver
Sportspeople from Johannesburg
1968 births
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