Jonas Lennart Andersson (born 16 May 1979, in

Fosie Fosie () was a city district ( sv, stadsdel) in the central of Malmö Municipality, Sweden. On 1 July 2013, it was merged with the city district of Oxie, forming Söder. In 2012, Fosie had a population of 43,889 of the municipality's 307,758. ...

) is a

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archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

. He lives in

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and competes for Trelleborgs BK. Jonas started shooting archery in 1993 as a compound archer and switched to Olympic archery in 1997. Andersson competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match against David Barnes of Australia 160-151, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was defeated by

Balzhinima Tsyrempilov Balzhinima Tsyrenzhapovich Tsyrempilov (russian: Бальжинима́ Цыренжа́пович Цыремпи́лов, links=no, ''Balzhinimá Tsyrenzhápovich Tsyrempílov'', born April 9, 1975 in Ulekchin, Zakamensky District, Buryatia) i ...

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. His final rank was 25th overall. Andersson was also a member of the 9th-place Swedish men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, along with Mattias Eriksson and

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. With this team he previously won World Championship silver (in 2003) and gold (in 2002) medal in field archery. Jonas got the 7 place at the World Games in Akita(Japan) in 2001. Jonas has several nation titles in both target and field archery. He competed at the

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in Copenhagen, Denmark. Jonas is married to his wife Lisa and they have two daughters Tuva and Maya.

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1979 births Living people Sportspeople from Malmö Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swedish male archers Olympic archers for Sweden Competitors at the 2001 World Games 21st-century Swedish people {{Sweden-archery-bio-stub