Irina Yuryevna Laricheva (russian: Ирина Юрьевна Ларичева; 19 November 1964 – 29 January 2020) was a Russian

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. She competed at the

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and

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and finished in 13th and 9th place, respectively. She won multiple medals at the world championships in the individual and team trap, double trap and shotgun events. At European trap championships, she won a gold medal in the team competition in 1997, an individual gold medal in 1999, and two individual bronze medals in 1998 and 2000. She graduated from a Moscow medical school and lived in Moscow. She was married and has a son, Stanislav, and a daughter Olesya.

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1964 births 2020 deaths Olympic shooters for Russia Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Russian female sport shooters Soviet female sport shooters {{Russia-sportshooting-bio-stub