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Shooting At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 Metre Air Rifle
The Men's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 11 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall. Abhinav Bindra became the first ever individual Olympic champion of India. The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with an air rifle at 10 metres distance from the standing position. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. Abhinav Bindra Abhinav Apjit Bindra is an Indian Olympic gold medallist, retired sport shooter, and businessman. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing Shooting Range Hall
The Beijing Shooting Range Hall () is a shooting hall located in Shijingshan District, Beijing. It hosted the qualifying rounds and finals of ten shooting sports events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, consisting of all 10-, 25- and 50-metre events. It was the venue of the first gold medal awarded at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The entire shooting sports events for the 2008 Summer Paralympics were also held at this venue. Construction of the venue broke ground on July 13, 2004 and was completed on July 28, 2007. It was used for a pre-Olympic test event in April 2008 as part of the 2008 ISSF World Cup. The venue, with a total surface area of 45,645 square meters, contains qualification competition halls, a final competition hall, a storehouse, a room for armed police use, a heating and ventilation equipment room, and an electric transformer room. The qualification competition hall contains 10m, 25m, and 50 m target ranges. The final competition hall contains sealed 10m, 25m, and 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granada
Granada (,, DIN 31635, DIN: ; grc, Ἐλιβύργη, Elibýrgē; la, Illiberis or . ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada (Spain), Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of four rivers, the Darro (river), Darro, the Genil, the Monachil (river), Monachil and the Beiro. Ascribed to the Vega de Granada ''comarca'', the city sits at an average elevation of Above mean sea level, above sea level, yet is only one hour by car from the Mediterranean coast, the Costa Tropical. Nearby is the Sierra Nevada Ski Station, where the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1996 were held. In the 2021 national census, the population of the city of Granada proper was 227,383, and the population of the entire municipal area was estimated to be 231,775, ranking as the Ranked lists of Spanish municipalities, 20th-largest urban area of Spain. About 3.3% of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nemanja Mirosavljev
Nemanja Mirosavljev (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Миросављев; born May 10, 1970, in Novi Sad, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian sport shooter. He is currently a member of SD Novi Sad 1790. Mirosavljev has competed at five Summer Olympics in his career, under three different flags - Independent Olympic Participants, Yugoslavia and also Serbia and Montenegro. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China, Mirosavljev once again represented his country - Serbia. He gained his qualification by taking 5th place at the 2007 World Cup #2 Rifle, Pistol in Sydney, Australia and competed at the 50 m Rifle 3 Positions Men event in Beijing. He also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the .... References E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Bong-duk
Park Bong-Duk (also ''Pak Bong-Deok'', ko, 박 봉덕; born September 23, 1973 in Seoul) is a South Korean sport shooter. He won two bronze medals in the men's 50 m rifle three positions at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand, and at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, with scores of 1,247 and 1,256.8 points, respectively. He also competed for two rifle shooting events (prone and three positions) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, but he neither reached the final round, nor claimed an Olympic medal. Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Park qualified for his second South Korean team, as a 35-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing third for the 50 m rifle prone ( FR60PR) from the 2007 Asian Shooting Championships in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Park also received additional places for the 10 m air rifle (AR40) and 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20); therefore, he competed for all rifle shooting events. In his first event, 10 m air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tino Mohaupt
Tino Mohaupt (born 29 August 1983) is a German sports shooter. He competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the .... References External links * 1983 births Living people German male sport shooters Olympic shooters of Germany Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics People from Suhl Sportspeople from Thuringia {{Germany-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cao Yifei
Cao Yifei (born May 20, 1988 in Jiaozuo, Henan) is a male Chinese sports shooter, who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na .... Major performances * 2005 National Games – 1st 50 m small-bore rifle prone; * 2006 World Championships Youth Group – 1st 50 m small-bore rifle 3x40; * 2007 National Intercity Games – 1st 50 m small-bore rifle prone/3x40 Records * 2005 National Games – 702.7, 50 m small-bore rifle prone (NR) References * http://2008teamchina.olympic.cn/index.php/personview/personsen/2815 External links * 1988 births Living people Chinese male sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Olympic shooters of China People from Jiaozuo Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Václav Haman
Václav Haman (; born 18 July 1986) is a Czech sports shooter and professional gunsmith. He competed at the 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ... and 2012 Summer Olympics. References External links * * 1986 births Living people Czech male sport shooters Olympic shooters of the Czech Republic Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics People from Jičín Gunsmiths Sportspeople from the Hradec Králové Region {{CzechRepublic-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niccolò Campriani
Niccolò Campriani (born November 6, 1987) is an Italian sport shooter and shooting coach. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the men's 10 metre air rifle, men's small-bore rifle, three positions, 50 metres and men's small-bore rifle, prone, 50 metres, and at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's 10 metre air rifle, winning silver, and in the men's 50 metre rifle three positions, where he won gold with a total of 1278.5 points. Biography After participating in the 2008 Summer Olympics, achieving his best result in 12th place in the 10 meter rifle, he won the gold medal at Euro 2009. On July 31, 2010 he won the gold medal at the World Shooting Championships in the 10 meter rifle, qualifying for the 2012 Summer Olympics. This made him the first Italian to become a world champion in shooting. On July 29, 2012 he won the silver medal at the Olympics in the 10 m rifle final. On August 6, 2012 he won a gold medal at the Olympics in the 50 m three position rifle fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleksandr Lazeykin
Oleksandr Valeriyovych Lazeykin ( uk, Олександр Валерійович Лазейкин; born 22 November 1982) is a Ukrainian sport shooter. Lazeykin represented Ukraine at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's 10 m air rifle, along with his teammate Artur Ayvazyan. He finished only in eleventh place by one point behind Austria's Thomas Farnik Thomas Farnik, born 6 January 1967 in Vienna, is an Austrian rifle shooter. He was twelve years old when his father introduced him to shooting. He started with a rifle, and his father remained involved with his early training. He competed at six ... from the final attempt, for a total score of 594 targets. References External linksNBC Olympics Profile 1982 births Living people People from Bilohirsk Raion Ukrainian male sport shooters Olympic shooters of Ukraine Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Zaporizhzhia Oblast {{Ukraine-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagan Narang
Gagan Narang (born 6 May 1983) is an Indian sport shooter, supported by the Olympic Gold Quest. He won the bronze medal in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle Event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with a final score of 701.1 on 30 July 2012. Early life and background Gagan was born to Bhimsen Narang and his wife Amarjit, in a Punjabi Hindu Arora family in Chennai on 6 May 1983. His father is a retired chief manager of the Air India. Gagan's family hail from the Simla Gujran village of Haryana's Panipat district. However, his father's job assignments made them to shift from Panipat to Hyderabad, where he was brought up. He did his schooling from the Gitanjali Senior School. He attained his Bachelor of Computer Application degree from the Hyderabad's Osmania University. He took to shooting when his father presented him an air pistol in 1997. He went about perfecting his shooting skills at the backyard of his home in Begumpet. According to his father, Gagan showed early sparks of his s ... [...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] |
Konstantin Prikhodtchenko
Konstantin Vladimirovich Prikhodtchenko (russian: Константин Владимирович Приходченко; born 29 March 1972 in Belgorod) is a Russian sport shooter. He won a silver medal for the 50 m rifle three positions at the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Lahti, Finland, with a score of 1255.4 points. He is also a member of CSKA Moscow and is coached and trained by Victor Vlasov. At age thirty-two, Prikhodtchenko made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed twenty-ninth in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air rifle, for a total score of 589 points, tying his position with three other shooters including Slovenia's Rajmond Debevec. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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