Aleksey Aleksandrovich Alipov (russian: Алексей Александрович Алипов, born 7 August 1975) is a Russian

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. He is the 2004 Olympic champion in that discipline.

Career

Born in Moscow, he was trained at the Russian Academy of Sport. He participates for the Russian Army Sports Club, based in Moscow. He competed at the 2000 Sydney Games where he finished ninth, but he achieved his ambition on 15 August 2004 at the Athens Olympics after a flawless final round in which he was on target with all 25 shots to finish with an overall score of 149 out of 150, beating

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into the silver medal position, while

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's Adam Vella took bronze. His hobbies include

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and

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, and he was in 2006 ranked eighth in the world in Trap by the

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* * 1975 births Living people Russian male sport shooters Olympic shooters of Russia 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 Olympic gold medalists for Russia Olympic bronze medalists for Russia Trap and double trap shooters Sportspeople from Moscow Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2015 European Games European Games gold medalists for Russia European Games silver medalists for Russia European Games medalists in shooting Shooters at the 2019 European Games European Games bronze medalists for Russia Shooters at the 2020 Summer Olympics {{Russia-sportshooting-bio-stub