Beat Müller (born 8 February 1978 in

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) is a Swiss sport shooter. He won a bronze medal in the men's 300 m rifle prone (300FR60PR) at the 2008 European Shooting Championships in

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, accumulating a score of 599 points. Muller is also a member of Sportschützen Taters, and is coached and trained by former Olympian Wolfram Waibel Jr. of Austria. Muller represented

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at the

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, where he competed in the men's 50 m rifle 3 positions, along with his teammate Marcel Bürge. He was able to shoot 395 targets in a prone position, 380 in standing, and 389 in kneeling, for a total score of 1,164 points, finishing only in twenty-first place. At the 2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships, he won a gold medal the 300m standard rifle team event, along with teammates Marcel Bürge and Olivier Schaffter.

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NBC Olympics Profile
1978 births Swiss male sport shooters Living people Olympic shooters for Switzerland Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Bern {{Switzerland-sportshooting-bio-stub