Michael Sean James Nicholson (born 9 November 1973, in

Harare Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...

) is a Zimbabwean sport shooter. He claimed two silver medals in double trap shooting at the 2003 and 2007 African Championships, and was selected to compete for

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at the

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, finishing sixteenth in the process. Nicholson qualified as a top shooter for the Zimbabwean squad in the men's double trap at the

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, by virtue of having accepted an Olympic invitational berth from the

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, based on his performance at the African Championships. He started with a score of 44 out of a possible 50 birds in the first round of the qualifying stage, but followed with 41 and 43 for a total of 128, which resulted in him finishing in sixteenth place.

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1973 births Living people Zimbabwean male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Zimbabwe Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Harare White Zimbabwean sportspeople {{Zimbabwe-sportshooting-bio-stub