Peeter Olesk (born 22 April 1993, in

Põlva Põlva () is a town in southeastern Estonia, the capital of Põlva County, and the centre of Põlva Parish. Põlva is home for the Intsikurmu Song Festival Grounds, which regularly hosts concerts and summer activities, situated in a small f ...

) is an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

sport shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such a ...

. In 2013 he won a gold in the 25m Standard Pistol, at the

European Shooting Championships The European Shooting Championships are the global sport shooting European championships as regards the disciplines of the sport shooting of the rifle (25, 50 and 300 m) and the pistol (25 and 50 m). Sometimes the competition also includes trap sho ...

. He has also won the Estonian junior championship in shooting 13 times. He competed at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

. He has qualified for the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

. In 2022, Olesk won a bronze medal at the ISSF World Pistol / Rifle Championships in the

ISSF 25 meter pistol 25 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often known as sport pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It was devised as a women's event in the 1960s, based upon the rules of ISSF 25 meter center-fire pistol, 25 meter center-fire pisto ...

event in Cairo.

References

1993 births Living people Estonian male sport shooters Olympic shooters of Estonia Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics People from Põlva European Games competitors for Estonia Shooters at the 2015 European Games Shooters at the 2019 European Games Shooters at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Estonian people {{Estonia-sportshooting-bio-stub