Vladimir Nikolayevich Issachenko ( kz, Владимир Николаевич Исаченко; born December 27, 1982, in

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) is a Kazakh sport shooter. He finished sixth in free pistol shooting at the

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, and eventually won a bronze medal in the standard pistol at the

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. Having pursued the sport since the age of eleven, Issachenko trained as a member of the shooting team for Dynamo Sport Club in

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under his personal coach and two-time Olympic bronze medalist

Vladimir Vokhmyanin Vladimir Anatolyevich Vokhmyanin (russian: Владимир Анатольевич Вохмянин, born 27 January 1962) is a Kazakhstani sport shooter. He was born in Temirtau. He won two Olympic bronze medals in 25 metre rapid fire pistol; o ...

. Issachenko qualified for the Kazakh squad in pistol shooting at the

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, by having achieved a minimum qualifying score of 560 and securing a berth with a silver-medal effort in free pistol from the Asian Championships in

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. In the men's 10 m air pistol, held on the first day of the Games, Issachenko shot 576 points to finish in a four-way tie with Italy's

Vigilio Fait Vigilio Fait (born 14 October 1962 in Rovereto, Trentino) is an Italian sport shooter. Since 1997, Fait had won a total of ten medals (three golds, four silver, and three bronze) for both air and free pistol at the ISSF World Cup series. He also ...

, Japan's Masaru Nakashige, and Germany's Abdulla Ustaoglu for twenty-third place. Three days later, Issachenko came strong from his frustrated air pistol feat to take the sixth spot in the

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final with a score of 654.5 points. At the

, Issachenko fired a score of 570 to pick up a bronze medal in the

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, just a point away from South Korea's Park Byung-taek.

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* 1982 births Living people Kazakhstani male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Kazakhstan Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics 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 medalists in shooting Sportspeople from Temirtau Asian Games bronze medalists for Kazakhstan Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Shooters at the 2018 Asian Games 21st-century Kazakhstani people {{Kazakhstan-sportshooting-bio-stub