Jonas Jacobsson

{{short description|Swedish Paralympic sport shooter}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|6|22|df=y}}

| birth_place = Norrköping, Sweden

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| height = 1.70 m

| weight = 51 kg

| disability_class = SH1, SH2

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|Paralympic Games |17|4|9

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{{MedalSport | Shooting para sport }}

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{{MedalCompetition | Paralympic Games }}

{{MedalGold | 1980 Arnhem | Mixed air rifle standing 2-5}}

{{MedalGold | 1984 Stoke Mandeville
& New York
| Men's air rifle standing team 1A-6}}

{{MedalGold | 1988 Seoul | Mixed air rifle prone team 2-6}}

{{MedalGold | {{nowrap|1992 Barcelona}} | Men's air rifle standing SH2}}

{{MedalGold | 1992 Barcelona | Mixed Olympic Match SH2}}

{{MedalGold | 1996 Atlanta | Men's air rifle 3×40 SH1}}

{{MedalGold | 1996 Atlanta | Mixed English match SH1}}

{{MedalGold | 2000 Sydney | Men's free rifle 3×40 SH1}}

{{MedalGold | 2000 Sydney | Mixed free rifle prone SH1}}

{{MedalGold | 2004 Athens | Mixed air rifle prone SH1}}

{{MedalGold | 2004 Athens | Men's air rifle standing SH1}}

{{MedalGold | 2004 Athens | Men's free rifle 3x40 SH1}}

{{MedalGold | 2004 Athens | Mixed free rifle prone SH1}}

{{MedalGold | 2008 Beijing | Men's air rifle standing SH1}}

{{MedalGold | 2008 Beijing | Men's free rifle 3x40 SH1}}

{{MedalGold | 2008 Beijing | Mixed free rifle prone SH1}}

{{MedalGold | 2012 London | Men's free rifle 3x40 SH1}}

{{MedalSilver | 1984 Stoke Mandeville
& New York | {{nowrap|Men's air rifle 3 positions team 1A-6}}}}

{{MedalSilver | 1984 Stoke Mandeville
& New York | Men's air rifle kneeling team 1A-6}}

{{MedalSilver | 1984 Stoke Mandeville
& New York | Men's air rifle standing 2-6}}

{{MedalSilver | 2012 London | Men's air rifle standing SH1}}

{{MedalBronze | 1980 Arnhem | Mixed air rifle 3 positions 2-5}}

{{MedalBronze | 1984 Stoke Mandeville
& New York | Men's air rifle 3 positions 2-6}}

{{MedalBronze | 1984 Stoke Mandeville
& New York | Men's air rifle prone team 1A-6}}

{{MedalBronze | 1988 Seoul | {{nowrap|Mixed air rifle 3 positions team 2-6}}}}

{{MedalBronze | 1988 Seoul | Mixed air rifle standing team 2-6}}

{{MedalBronze | 1992 Barcelona | Mixed air rifle 3×40 SH2}}

{{MedalBronze | 1996 Atlanta | Mixed air rifle prone SH1}}

{{MedalBronze | 2000 Sydney | Mixed air rifle prone SH1}}

{{MedalBronze | 2000 Sydney | Men's air rifle standing SH1}}

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Jonas Jacobsson (born 22 June 1965) is a Swedish sport shooter who has won several gold medals at the Paralympic Games. He participated in ten consecutive Summer Paralympics from 1980 to 2016, winning a total of seventeen gold, four silver, and nine bronze medals.{{cite web|title=Sweden’s Jacobsson shoots way to 17th Paralympic gold|language=en|url=https://www.thelocal.se/20120906/43038/|publisher=The Local Sweden |access-date=15 July 2021}} In 1996, he won two gold medals in the air rifle 3×40 and English match events and a bronze in the air rifle prone at the Atlanta Paralympics. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics, he took two gold medals in the free rifle 3×40 and free rifle prone events and two bronzes in air rifle standing and air rifle prone events. Four years later, at the Athens Games, he competed in the same four events and won the gold medal in all of them.

On 10 September 2008 Jacobsson won his 16th gold medal in the Paralympic Games making him the best performing male Paralympics contestant so far. Later that year, he became the first athlete with a physical disability to receive the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal,{{cite web|title=Bragdguldet till Jonas Jacobsson|trans-title=The Feat Gold to Jonas Jacobsson|language=sv|url=https://www.svd.se/bragdguldet-till-jonas-jacobsson|publisher=Svenska Dagbladet |access-date=15 July 2021}} Sweden's most significant sports award.

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