Rashid Yunusmetov ( kk, Рашид Юнусметов, ''Raşid Iunusmetov''; born July 9, 1979, in

Shymkent Shymkent (; Шымкент, Şymkent), known until 1993 as Chimkent ( uz, Çımkent, چىمكېنت; Yañalif: Çimkent ()); russian: Чимкент, translit=Chimkent (), is a city in Kazakhstan. It is near the border with Uzbekistan. It is one ...

) is a Kazakhstani sport shooter. Yunusmetov had won a total of five medals at the

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circuit, including gold for the 50 m free pistol (

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). Yunusmetov represented

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at the

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in Beijing, where he competed in two pistol shooting events. He placed twentieth out of forty-eight shooters in the men's 10 m air pistol, with a total score of 578 points. Three days later, Yunusmetov competed for his second event, 50 m rifle pistol, where he was able to fire 10 shots each in six attempts, for a total score of 555 points, finishing only in seventeenth place.

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Kazakhstani male sport shooters Living people Olympic shooters for Kazakhstan Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Shymkent 1979 births Asian Games medalists in shooting Shooters at the 2002 Asian Games Shooters at the 2006 Asian Games Shooters at the 2010 Asian Games Shooters at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for Kazakhstan Asian Games bronze medalists for Kazakhstan Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Shooters at the 2018 Asian Games {{Kazakhstan-sportshooting-bio-stub