Aleksey Petrovich Gushchin (russian: Алексей Петрович Гущин; 5 January 1922 – 14 December 1986) was a Soviet pistol shooter who won the 50 m event at the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

, setting a new Olympic record. During his career he set two world and two European records and won two individual silver medals at the world and European championships. In retirement he worked as a shooting coach and in 1965 wrote a handbook on pistol shooting.Гущин Алексей Петрович
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Great Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...

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* 1922 births 1986 deaths Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Russian male sport shooters Soviet male sport shooters Shooters at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic shooters of the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub