Richárd Bognár (born April 25, 1967 in

Mosonmagyaróvár Mosonmagyaróvár (; german: Wieselburg-Ungarisch Altenburg; also known by other alternative names) is a town in Győr-Moson-Sopron County in northwestern Hungary. It lies close to both the Austrian and Slovakian borders and has a population ...

) is a Hungarian sport shooter. He achieved a sixth-place finish in the men's double trap at the 2011 ISSF World Cup series in

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, with a total score of 191 targets, earning him a spot on the Hungarian team for the Olympics. Bognar is also a member of Honved Bolyai Janos SE, and is coached and trained by Erzsebet Vasvari. At age 45, Bognar held the distinction of being the oldest member of the Hungarian team selected for the

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in London, where he competed in the men's double trap. He only finished in sixth place, with a total score of 182 targets (137 in the preliminary rounds and 45 in the final), six points behind winner and world-record holder Peter Wilson of Great Britain.

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NBC Olympics Profile
1967 births Living people Hungarian male sport shooters Trap and double trap shooters Olympic shooters for Hungary Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics People from Mosonmagyaróvár Shooters at the 2015 European Games European Games silver medalists for Hungary European Games medalists in shooting Sportspeople from Győr-Moson-Sopron County 21st-century Hungarian people {{Hungary-sportshooting-bio-stub