Abdullah Al-Rashidi (born August 23, 1963) is a Kuwaiti sport shooter and three-time world champion. He competed at the Summer Olympics in 1996,

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, 2004,

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, and

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, winning bronze medals in men's skeet in both

and

Achievements

Abdullah Al-Rashidi won three gold medals at the World Shooting Championships, in 1995, 1997 and 1998 and in 2011 he took a bronze medal. Competing since 1989, he is also the winner of four

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events. He has six gold and three silver medals from Asian Shooting Championships and two gold and one silver medal from Asian Games.

2016 Olympic games

In the 2016 Summer Olympics, Al-Rashidi competed as an " independent Olympic athlete" because Kuwait was banned from the Olympics by the IOC over government interference in sport. He won the qualification, finished fourth in the semifinals and won the

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against Ukraine's Mikola Milchev, the winner from Sydney in 2000. As his status of being an independent Olympian did not enable the restriction of the uniform of his national team, he received media attention for competing whilst wearing the training shirt of Arsenal F.C. despite not being a supporter himself, leading to people on social media to draw comparison to him and the team's performance in the

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. Al-Rashidi won his second Olympic bronze medal in the

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in Tokyo, this time competing for Kuwait.

Olympic results

References

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* * 1963 births Living people Asian Games medalists in shooting Asian Games gold medalists for Kuwait Asian Games silver medalists for Kuwait Asian Games bronze medalists for Kuwait Kuwaiti male sport shooters Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Kuwait Olympic bronze medalists as Independent Olympic Participants Olympic medalists in shooting Olympic shooters as Independent Olympic Participants Olympic shooters of Kuwait Shooters at the 1994 Asian Games Shooters at the 1998 Asian Games Shooters at the 2006 Asian Games Shooters at the 2010 Asian Games Shooters at the 2014 Asian Games Shooters at the 2018 Asian Games Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Kuwait City {{Kuwait-sportshooting-bio-stub