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Shooting At The 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 Metre Rifle Prone
Men's 50 metre rifle prone (then known as ''free rifle'') was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Christian Klees shot a perfect 600 in the qualification round and set a new World record after 104.8 points (of maximum 109.0) in the final. With an even better final round, Sergey Belyayev surpassed Jozef Gönci Jozef Gönci (born 18 March 1974, in Košice) is a Slovak sport shooter, specialising in the 50 m Rifle and 10 m Air Rifle. Gönci won independent Slovakia's first ever Olympic Medal, a bronze in Atlanta in 1996. He won another bronze me ... to win the silver medal. Qualification round EWR Equalled World record – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final Final OR Olympic record – WR World record References Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Men's 50 metre rifle prone Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics Men's 050m prone 1996 Men's events at the 1996 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Creek Shooting Complex
The Wolf Creek Shooting Complex, now known as the Tom Lowe Shooting Grounds, is a shooting range located southwest of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, in Fulton County, Georgia, Fulton County. During the 1996 Summer Olympics, it hosted the Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics, shooting event. Until 2002, it was also often used for ISSF World Cup competitions in rifle and pistol events, although such competitions, when held in the United States, have now reverted to being carried out at Fort Benning. The venue is now owned by the Parks & Recreation Department of Fulton County. It has 20 trap shooting, trap and skeet shooting combination fields, and nine lighted areas. The facility has been host to several NSSA State and Zone skeet tournaments. The range is also home to recreational shooting leagues such as the Atlanta Skeet and Trap League. References1996 Summer Olympics official report.Volume 1. p. 544.1996 Summer Olympics official report.Volume 3. p. 460.Claytargetsonl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kraskowski
Robert Roman Kraskowski (born 21 December 1967 in Słupsk) is a Polish sport shooter. Kraskowski had won a total of three medals at the ISSF World Cup circuit, including gold for the 10 m air rifle (1992 in Suhl, Germany). He also competed in the rifle shooting events at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona (only 10 m air rifle), and at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Twelve years after competing in his last Olympics, Kraskowski qualified for his third Polish team as a 41-year-old at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by placing sixth for the 10 m air rifle ( AR40) from the third meet of the 2006 ISSF World Cup in Munich, Germany. Kraskowski also received additional places for the 50 m rifle prone (FR60PR) and 50 m rifle 3 positions ( STR3X20); therefore, he competed for all rifle shooting events. In his first event, 10 m air rifle, Kraskowski was able to hit a total of 589 points within six attempts, finishing thirty-third in the qualifying rounds. Few days later, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Polak
Boris Polak (בוריס פולק; born July 15, 1954) is an Israeli former world champion and Olympic sport shooter. Personal life Polak is Jewish and was born in Moldova, in 1954. He made ''aliyah'' (immigrated to Israel) with his family from Alma Ata, Kazakhstan in 1992. He lives in Ashkelon, Israel, and is married with two children.http://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/athlete.ashx?personissfid=SHISRM1507195401 He has worked as a machinist and as a shooting coach. Shooting career Polak started practicing shooting, and competing, in 1968, when he was 14 years old. In 1980, after Polak came in 6th in the European Shooting Championships in Oslo in the AR (air rifle) 40M, the Soviet Union dropped him from its Olympic shooting team because some officials thought that at 26 years of age he was too old. He stopped shooting, and for the next seven years served as a border guard in the Red Army on a mountain top near China, attaining the rank of Colonel. After moving to Israel, while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goran Maksimović
Goran Maksimović ( sr-cyrl, Горан Максимовић; born 27 July 1963 in Svetozarevo) is a Serbian sport shooter and Olympic Champion for Yugoslavia. He won a gold medal in the 10 metre air rifle event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. At the 1996 and 2000 Olympics he competed for FR Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yug .... Goran is currently the head coach of the Serbian national shooting team. His daughter, Ivana Maksimović, is a 2012 Olympic silver medalist. References External links * 1963 births Living people Yugoslav male sport shooters Serbian male sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Olympic shooters of Yugoslavia Olympic gold medalists for Yugoslavia Shooters at the 1984 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Koch (sport Shooter)
Kurt Koch (born 9 September 1960) is a Swiss sports shooter. He competed in the men's 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, .... References External links * 1960 births Living people Swiss male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Switzerland Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) {{Switzerland-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artem Khadjibekov
Artyom Aleksandrovich Khadjibekov (russian: Артём Александрович Хаджибеков; born April 20, 1970 in Obninsk) is a Russian sport shooter, specializing in the rifles event. He won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games and silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in the 10 metre air rifle event. He also competed at 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. Olympic results Records Khadjibekov was part of the Soviet team that formerly held the world record in the 50 meter rifle three positions 5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on eac ... junior event. External linksProfile on issfnews.com [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadeusz Czerwinski
''Tadeusz'' is a Polish first name, derived from Thaddaeus. Tadeusz may refer to: * Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895–1966), Polish military leader * Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), Polish writer and The Holocaust survivor * Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874–1941), Polish gynaecologist, writer, poet, art critic, translator of French literary classics and journalist * Tadeusz Brzeziński (1896–1991), Polish consular official and the father of President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski * Tadeusz Czeżowski (1889–1981), Polish philosopher and logician * Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898–1939), Polish journalist and author of over a dozen popular novels * Tadeusz Drzazga (born 1975), Polish weightlifter * Tadeusz Hollender (1910–1943), Polish poet, translator and humorist * Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski (1866 – 1928) was a Polish military commander, diplomat, and politician, a founder of the modern Polish Republic * Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990), Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Xianjun
Chen Xianjun (born 14 July 1974) is a Chinese sport shooter who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, .... References 1974 births Living people Chinese male sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Olympic shooters for China Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics 20th-century Chinese people Place of birth missing (living people) {{PRChina-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsolt Vari
Zsolt () is a Hungarian masculine given name, originally a variant of ''Solt''. Related names * Zsolt: old Hungarian personal name, with an identical origin to the names ''Zoltán'', ''Zsolt'' and possibly ''Csolt''. Derived from the old Turkish word "sultan". Name-day * April 10 * October 21 * November 20 People with the given name * Zoltán of Hungary, also known as Zsolt * Zsolt Balázs * Zsolt Bárányos * Zsolt Baumgartner * Zsolt Bayer, commentator for ''Magyar Hírlap'' * Zsolt Bedák * Zsolt Bodoni (born 1975), Hungarian painter * Zsolt Borkai * Zsolt Erdei * Zsolt Gyulay * Zsolt Haraszti * Zsolt Harsányi * Zsolt Horváth (other) * Zsolt Kalmár * Zsolt Korcsmár * Zsolt Kosz * Zsolt Kürtösi * Zsolt Laczkó * Zsolt Nagy (other), several people * Zsolt Nemcsik * Zsolt Németh (other) * Zsolt Szabó (other) * Zsolt Szeglet People with the surname * Béla Zsolt * István Zsolt István Zsolt (28 June 1921, Budapest – 7 May 1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernd Rücker
Bernd Rücker (born 28 May 1965) is a German sport shooter who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics, in the 1992 Summer Olympics, and in the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, .... References 1965 births Living people German male sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Olympic shooters for Germany Olympic shooters for West Germany Shooters at the 1988 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1992 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics World record holders in shooting 20th-century German people {{Germany-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stevan Pletikosić
Stevan Pletikosić ( sr-cyrl, Стеван Плетикосић) (born 14 March 1972 in Kragujevac, Serbia, then SFR Yugoslavia) is a sport shooter from Serbia. While still a junior, he won a bronze medal in Men's 50 m Rifle Prone in the 1992 Summer Olympics. The year before, at the 1991 ISSF World Cup in the same event, he had become the only junior ever to achieve the maximum score of 600 in a world-class competition. Pletikosić started competing in 1982, when he was 10 years old. He won a first medal at the European Championships winning a silver at the 1989 European Shooting Championships in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia. During his career, he won another European silver medal and was European champion twice. His first international medal was won at the 1994 ISSF World Shooting Championships, which was also a silver medal. Yugoslav Olympic Committee proclaimed him sportsman of the year in 1994. Pletikosić also won a silver in the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships, now in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Pirekeev
Igor Pirekeyev (Игорь Пирекеев; born May 16, 1971, in Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR) is a former Turkmenistani and current Kazakh shooter and two-time gold medalist at the Asian Games. He also competed for Turkmenistan at the Summer Olympics in 1996, 2000 and 2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 .... At the 2000 Olympics, Pirekeyev qualified for the final round of the men's 50 metre rifle prone event and finished in seventh place. References 1971 births Living people Sportspeople from Ashgabat Turkmenistan male sport shooters Kazakhstani male sport shooters Turkmenistan emigrants to Kazakhstan Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic shooters for Turkmenistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |