Anne Grethe Jeppesen
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| Nationality | Norwegian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 November 1957 Florø, Norway | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Harald Stenvaag | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||
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Anne Grethe Jeppesen (born 1 November 1957) is a Norwegian sports shooter and coach.
Her achievements include medals in rifle shooting at world and European championships, a fifth place at the Olympics, and seventeen individual national titles. She has coached the Norwegian, Scottish and Danish national rifle shooting teams.
Career
[edit]Personal life
[edit]Born in Florø on 1 November 1957,[1] Jeppesen is married to sports shooter, world champion and Olympic medalist Harald Stenvaag.[2]
Shooting career
[edit]She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where she placed fifth in the 50 metres small-bore rifle (three positions), and tied 11th in the 10 metre air rifle.[3]
A Nordic champion in air rifle in 1979 and 1981,[1] Jeppesen won a gold medal in 10 m air rifle at the 1981 European 10 m Events Championships in Athens. Next time this gold went to a woman from Norway, was Jeanette Hegg Duestad's victory in 2023.[4] In 1981 she also won a team silver medal at the ISSF air rifle World Championships, Women Team.[1]
She won a total of 17 individual national titles.[1]
Coaching career
[edit]After her active career, Jeppesen coached the Norwegian national shooting teams over several periods, and was head coach for the senior team until 2016. She later coached the Scottish national rifle team from 2016, and the Danish national rifle team from 2018.[1]
Her publications include Mental trening i skyting from 2005, co-written with Anne Marie Pensgaard.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Bryhn, Rolf. "Anne Grethe Jeppesen". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "Anne Grethe Jeppesen". olympedia.org. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ "Anne Grethe Jeppesen". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ^ Rønning, Dag (13 March 2023). "Historiske 3 gull til Jeanette". skyting.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 30 August 2023.
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