Jonas Jacobsson

Jonas Jacobsson is a Swedish sport shooter, born on 22 June 1965, who has won many gold medals at the Paralympic Games. He took part in ten consecutive Summer Paralympics from 1980 to 2016 and won seventeen gold, four silver and nine bronze medals. His events include air rifle and free rifle, and at the 2004 Games in Athens he won gold in all four events he entered. In 2008 he won his sixteenth Paralympic gold, then the best total of any male Paralympian, and that year he became the first athlete with a physical disability to receive the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal, Sweden's most significant sports award.