Knut Holmqvist (15 July 1918 – 28 August 2000) was a Swedish

sport shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as ...

. He competed in trap shooting at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and finished in second and seventh place, respectively. He won a team gold and an individual bronze medal at the 1952 World Championships.

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1918 births 2000 deaths Swedish male sport shooters Shooters at the 1952 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic shooters of Sweden Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics 20th-century Swedish people 21st-century Swedish people {{Sweden-Olympic-medalist-stub