Tika Ram Shrestha (born 2 September 1964 in

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) is a Nepalese sport shooter. He has been selected to compete for

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in air rifle shooting at the

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, finishing in the penultimate position out of 47 shooters. Shrestha qualified as a sole shooter for the Nepalese team in the men's 10 m air rifle at the

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. He had been granted an Olympic invitation for his country by ISSF and

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, having registered a minimum qualifying score of 570 at the

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meet in

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few months earlier. A less experienced to the international scene, Shrestha showed much of his strength to shoot 579 points out of a possible 600 for the penultimate position in a 47-shooter field, failing to advance further to the final.

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* 1964 births Living people Nepalese male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Nepal Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Kathmandu Shooters at the 2002 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Nepal {{Nepal-sportshooting-bio-stub