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unusual facts about sport shooter



Akbar Muradov

Akbar Muradov is an Azerbaijani paralympic sport shooter, bronze medalist of 2007 European Championships in Suhl and 2010 World Cup in Antalya and in Volmerange-les-Mines.

Arndt Kaspar

Arndt Kaspar (born 23 August 1962 in Blieskastel) is a German former sport shooter who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Bob Munden

After taking up exhibition shooting, Bob Munden gave many demonstrations to audiences, once with John Satterwhite.

Charles Mackie

Charles Mackie (sport shooter), a shooter who competed for Great Britain in the men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol event at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Gernot Eder

Gernot Eder (born 14 August 1965 in Räckelwitz) is a German former sport shooter who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics and in the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Jens Potteck

Jens Potteck (born 5 October 1968 in Wittenberge) is a German former sport shooter who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Jin Jong-oh

By doing so, Jin also became the first person to win the men's 10 metre air pistol and 50 metre pistol gold medals at the same Olympics and one of the five shooters to win two individual gold medals at one Olympics, being the first man to have done so since Otto Olsen of Norway at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Kirill Ivanov

Kirill Ivanov (sport shooter), Soviet sport shooter who represented USSR at the 1988 Summer Olympics and 1992 Summer Olympics

Leonardus Syttin

Leonardus "Leonid" Syttin (born 3 December 1892 in Vilnius, date of death unknown) was a Lithuanian sport shooter who competed for the Russian Empire in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Rudi Lausarot

Rudi Pablo Lausarot Bobenrieth (born 3 April 1975 in Young) is a Uruguayan 10 m Air Rifle sport shooter.

Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol

Schumann comfortably won the silver while McNally fell back during the final with a 47 and a 46, finishing seventh and giving way to a third-place tie between Zoltán Kovács and Alberto Sevieri, resolved in Kovács's favour on grounds of higher final score.

The last Olympic competition on the non-circular target, and the first to feature final shooting, it was won by Afanasijs Kuzmins after a perfect 300 in the first stage, 298 in the second, and two perfect 50 series in the final, thus not allowing Ralf Schumann and John McNally to eliminate his one-point pre-final lead.

Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Trap

Petr Hrdlička and Kazumi Watanabe both hit 219 of the 225 targets, with Hrdlicka winning the gold medal shoot-off.


see also

Anders Nielsen

Anders Peter Nielsen (1867–1950), Danish sport shooter Olympic champion

Bellingrodt

Helmut Bellingrodt (born 1949), Columbian sport shooter, Olympic silver medallist

C. Dupre

Dupre was an Olympic sport shooter who was part of the team that won Haiti's first ever Olympic medal, a bronze in team free rifle at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Egnell

Claes Egnell (1916–2012), Swedish sport shooter and modern pentathlete

Frederick Morgan

Fred Morgan (1893–????), South African Olympic sport shooter, competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics

Gyda Ellefsplass Olssen

Gyda Ellefsplass Olssen (born November 16, 1978 in Elverum) is a Norwegian sport shooter.

Henry Lynch

Henry Lynch-Staunton (1873–1941), British sport shooter, who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics

Jorge Llames

Jorge León Llames Gutiérrez (born October 17, 1978 in Piedras Blancas, Asturias) is a Spanish sport shooter.

L. H. Clermont

H. Clermont was an Olympic sport shooter who was part of the team won Haiti's first ever Olympic medal, a bronze in team free rifle at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Luisa Maida

Luisa Cristina del Rosario Maida Leiva (born October 7, 1979 in San Salvador) is a Salvadoran sport shooter.

Phool Maya Kyapchhaki

Phool Maya Kyapchhaki (born November 24, 1980 in Dhanusa District, Janakpur) is a Nepalese sport shooter.