Pia Hansen (born 25 September 1965) is a

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sport shooter. She originally competed in Nordic Trap but then moved on to

Olympic trap Olympic Trap is a shooting sport discipline contested at the Olympic Games and sanctioned by the International Shooting Sport Federation. Usually referred to simply as "trap", the discipline is also known in the United States as international tr ...

and

double trap Double trap is a shotgun shooting sport, one of the ISSF shooting events. Participants use a shotgun to attempt to break a clay disk flung away from the shooter at high speed. The layout of double trap shooting is similar to that of trap shoot ...

. She won the latter at the

2000 Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...

in Sydney, and she also finished eighth in trap. In

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four years later, she finished ninth in both events.

External links

Hansen's profile at ISSF
1965 births Living people Swedish female sport shooters Olympic shooters for Sweden Trap and double trap shooters Olympic medalists in shooting {{Sweden-Olympic-medalist-stub Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics 20th-century Swedish women 21st-century Swedish women