Philip Jonsson

Started: He took up shooting in 2006 with the Mariestads SG club in Sweden. (fjshooting.se, 25 Jun 2022) Reason: "At age six I started playing football like a lot of my friends did, but the older I got, the harder it became for me. The illness sadly forced me to stop playing football, but instead I became responsible for the team's statistics. While I was doing that, I began to look for another sport that would suit me better. Then one day my father was reading in the newspaper that Mariestads SG had a shooting test day. I went there, tried it, and settled on shooting." (fjshooting.se, 25 Jun 2022) Ambition: To compete at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. (paralympics.se, 05 Oct 2021; dn.se, 14 Sep 2023; parasport.se, 20 Sep 2023; via.tt.se, 16 Jan 2024) Awards: He was named Honorary Citizen of the Year for 2022 in Skaraborg, Sweden. (his.se, 17 Nov 2022) In January 2022 he received the Sports Mirror Prize at the Swedish Sports Awards in recognition of his gold medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (svt.se, 18 Jan 2022; mynewsdesk.com, 17 Jan 2022) He and his teammate with the Swedish national squad Ellinor Axelsson-Vaughn won the Team of the Year award at the 2020 Swedish Para Sport Gala. (parasport.se, 01 Apr 2020) Additional Info: OCCUPATION He works part-time at FX Airguns, a manufacturer of air rifles based in Mariestad, Sweden. (paralympics.se, 05 Oct 2021; Facebook profile, 06 Apr 2024)