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Shooting At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 Metre Rifle Prone
The Men's 50 metre rifle prone event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 3 August 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks. The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a .22 Long Rifle at 50 metres distance from the prone Prone position () is a body position in which the person lies flat with the chest down and the back up. In anatomical terms of location, the dorsal side is up, and the ventral side is down. The supine position is the 180° contrast. Etymolog ... position. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots. These shots were scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 70 shots were used to determine final ranking. Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. Qualif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Artillery Barracks
Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, is a barracks of the British Army which forms part of Woolwich Garrison. The Royal Regiment of Artillery had its headquarters here from 1776 until 2007, when it was moved to Larkhill Garrison. History In 1716 two permanent field companies of Artillery (each of a hundred men) were formed by royal Warrant and placed under the command of the Master-General of the Ordnance. They were initially quartered in the Warren, about half a mile from the current barracks site. By 1771 the Royal Regiment of Artillery numbered over 2,400, over a third of whom were usually quartered in Woolwich. Having outgrown its barracks in the Warren, the regiment looked to establish itself in new quarters elsewhere in Woolwich. 18th-century establishment Work on the new barracks began in 1774 on a site overlooking Woolwich Common. As originally built (1774-6) the barracks frontage was only half the present length, being the eastern half of the current south elevatio ... [...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] |
Jonathan Hammond (sport Shooter)
Jonathan Hammond is a British sport shooter, who has competed for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games and Great Britain at the Olympics. He is currently the head coach of the rifle team at the West Virginia University. Early life Hammond was born on 1 October 1980 in Aberdeen, Scotland. He began shooting at Ardvreck School in Crieff, Perthshire and at the age of 13 he won the Scottish under-18s championships. At the age of 17 he won the World Junior Championship in prone rifle. He has a BA in geography and a master's in sport management. 2008 Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China, Hammond competed in three events as the sole representative in rifle for Great Britain. In his first event, the men's 10 metres air rifle, Hammond scored 589 points to finish in 29th place as Abhinav Bindra won to become India's first ever individual Olympic gold medallist. Hammond came 34th in the 50 metre rifle prone again scoring 589 points as gold was won by Artur Ayva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Uptagrafft
Eric Allan Uptagrafft (born February 16, 1966) is an American sport shooter. He was born in Spokane, Washington, and lives in Firestone, Colorado. He competed for the United States 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, ..., in the Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50, coming in tied for 30th. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he finished in 16th in the same event. He shares the world record in the 50 meter rifle prone competition. Current world record in 50 m rifle prone References 1966 births Living people American male sport shooters Olympic shooters for the United States Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Spokane, Washington Sportspeople from Weld County, Colorado Sportspeople from Colorado Shooters at the 2012 Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Hak-Man
Kim Hak-Man (born 26 March 1976 in South Chungcheong Province South Chungcheong Province ( ko, 충청남도, ''Chungcheongnam-do''), also known as Chungnam, is a province of South Korea. South Chungcheong has a population of 2,059,871 (2014) and has a geographic area of 8,204 km2 (3,168 sq mi) located in ...) is a South Korean rifle shooter. He competed in the 50 m rifle prone event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where he placed 15th. He finished in 28th place in the same event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. References 1976 births Living people South Korean male sport shooters Olympic shooters for South Korea Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from South Chungcheong Province Asian Games medalists in shooting Shooters at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games South Korean Buddhists 20th-century South Korean people 21st-century South Korean people {{SouthKore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
