Petri Nummela

Petri Nummela
Personal information
Full name Petri Nummela
Nationality  Finland
Born (1971-06-17) 17 June 1971
Hollola, Finland
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) Trap (TR125)
Club Lahden Ampumaseura[1]
Coached by Matti Nummela[1]

Petri Nummela (born June 17, 1971 in Hollola) is a Finnish sport shooter.[2] He was selected to compete for Finland at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing fourteenth in trap shooting.[1][3] Having pursued the sport since the age of fourteen, Nummela trained full-time for Lahti Shooting Club (Finnish: Lahden Ampumaseura) in Lahti under his personal coach and brother Matti Nummela.[1][4]

Nummela qualified for the Finnish squad in the men's trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Few months before the Games, he finished third at the World Cup meet in Sydney to occupy the Olympic quota place won by his compatriot Tommi Andelin, who had attained a minimum qualifying score of 120, from the 2002 World Championships in Lahti.[1] Nummela got off to a powerful start by firing 73 out of 75 targets to secure a top finish on the first day, but his final rounds of a perfect 25 and a dismal 19-clay pigeon hit on the following day left him out from the top of the leaderboard to share a fourteenth-place tie with four other shooters, tallying a total record of 117.[3][5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "ISSF Profile – Petri Nummela". ISSF. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Petri Nummela". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Nummelan vire romahti päätössarjassa" [Nummela's decision plunged into sentiments] (in Finnish). MTV Finland. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Petri Nummela 40:s trapin maailmancupissa" [Petri Nummela finished 40th in trap at the World Cup series] (in Finnish). Yle Radio Suomi. 1 July 2007. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "Shooting: Men's Trap Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Nummelan sihti kohdallaan trapissa" [Nummela takes a top place in the trap] (in Finnish). MTV Finland. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
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