Petri Nummela

Career

He was selected to compete for Finland at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing fourteenth in trap shooting. Nummela qualified for the Finnish squad in the men"s trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. 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.

Achievements

• 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.