Torsten Ullman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish sports shooter
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Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
About Torsten Ullman
- Torsten Ullman (27 July 1908 – 11 May 1993) was a Swedish pistol shooter and entrepreneur, most famous for his gold medal in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where the Germans were favourites in the free pistol competition but Ullman won by a margin of 15 points.
- His record score of 559 would still be competitive today in this event.
- He also won the World Championships in Free Pistol in 1933, 1935, 1937, 1947 and 1952. Ullman was not a free pistol specialist but rather an all-round shooter, achieving great successes in all three pistol events that existed at the time.
- In the Rapid Fire competition in Berlin, he won the bronze medal after an extremely rapid shoot-off, and three years later he became World Champion in that event, being one of only four shooters to win major worldwide titles in both 50 m Pistol and 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol.
- He entered the first World Championship in 25 m Center-Fire Pistol in 1947, surprisingly with a Smith & Wesson revolver, and won by seven points, causing a worldwide revolver hype.
- He repeated this victory in 1954. Ullman was one of the first sport shooters to take practice and preparation to a scientific level, which he himself always claimed was a main reason for his success.
- In 1937, he received the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal for the greatest Swedish sports achievement of the year.
- He is the only pistol shooter to have received this prestigious award.Besides his shooting career, Ullman worked with pistol development, and co-authored a widely spread book on shooting with Lev Weinstein.
- He also started a mechanical industry on Helgö outside Växjö, Småland.
- It was later moved to Moheda and developed a few filials.
- Today this industry has been purchased by Finnveden AB. Ullman was educated from 1925 to 1927 at Sherborne School in Dorset, UK.
- On leaving Sherborne School he attended Clare College, Cambridge University and then Uppsala University in Sweden.
- Ullman was married twice, and several of his children have been successful shooters.
- His youngest daughter Marie-Louise Ullman won the European Junior Championships in 10 m air pistol in 1992.
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