Sonja Pfeilschifter (born 29 January 1971) is a German rifle shooter. After winning the 1991
World Junior Championship in
10 metre air rifle
10 metre air rifle (N.B. For "Meter" in this article – read "Metre") is an International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) shooting event, shot at a bullseye target over a distance of using a calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of . It ...
, she won the World Championships of 1994 and 1998, in 1998 doubling with a victory in
50 metre rifle three positions
50 meter rifle three positions (formerly known as one of four free rifle disciplines) is an International Shooting Sport Federation event, a miniature version of 300 meter rifle three positions. It consists of the kneeling, prone, and standing ...
. Still without Olympic medals, she has a very large number of victories at
ISSF World Cup
The ISSF World Cup was introduced by the International Shooting Sport Federation in 1986 to provide a homogeneous system for qualification to the Olympic shooting competitions. It still is carried out in the Olympic shooting events, with four comp ...
s and she holds several world records.
Olympic results
Records
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1971 births
Living people
German female sport shooters
ISSF rifle shooters
World record holders in shooting
Olympic shooters for Germany
Shooters at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
People from Cham, Germany
Sportspeople from the Upper Palatinate
21st-century German women