Petri Nummela (born 17 June 1971 in

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) is a Finnish sport shooter. He was selected to compete for

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at the

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, finishing fourteenth in trap shooting. Having pursued the sport since the age of fourteen, Nummela trained full-time for Lahti Shooting Club ( fi, Lahden Ampumaseura) in

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under his personal coach and brother Matti Nummela. Nummela qualified for the Finnish squad in the men's trap at the

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. Few months before the Games, he finished third at the World Cup meet in

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to occupy the Olympic quota place won by his compatriot Tommi Andelin, who had attained a minimum qualifying score of 120, from the 2002 World Championships in

. Nummela got off to a powerful start by firing 73 out of 75 targets to secure a top finish on the first day, but his final rounds of a perfect 25 and a dismal 19-clay pigeon hit on the following day left him out from the top of the leaderboard to share a fourteenth-place tie with four other shooters, tallying a total record of 117.

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* * 1971 births Living people Finnish male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Finland Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics People from Hollola Sportspeople from Päijät-Häme {{Finland-sportshooting-bio-stub