Mikhail Valeryevich Nestruyev (russian: Михаил Валерьевич Неструев, born 28 October 1968 in

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) is a pistol shooter from

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. He is an all-round shooter, having achieved great successes in all five ISSF pistol events. He holds the

25 metre center-fire pistol 25 meter center-fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events, and is normally a men-only event. Its origin lies in competitions with military-style service pistols, and as such its history dates back to the 19th century. 25 meter pistol (form ...

world record of 594. He also shares the European record in

25 metre standard pistol 25 meter standard pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events, introduced at the ISSF World Shooting Championships in 1970. It has its roots in the conventional pistol competitions developed by the National Rifle Association of America T ...

with

Ragnar Skanåker Ragnar Skanåker (born 8 June 1934) is a Swedish competitive pistol shooter who was a world-class shooter for an extremely long period. His international breakthrough came in the 1972 Olympics, where he won the 50 m Pistol event. He is mostly asso ...

and Vladas Turla, and has performed over 580 at several occasions. Nestruyev has also excelled in the Olympic events. In the 2004 Olympics after setting a new Olympic record in qualification he lost a close final to

Wang Yifu Wang Yifu (, born December 4, 1960 in Liaoyang, Liaoning) is a male Chinese pistol shooter, and in terms of Olympic medals one of the most successful sport shooters of all times, and was the first shooter with six individual Olympic medals. He ...

10 metre air pistol The 10 meter air pistol is an Olympic shooting event governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF). It is similar to 10 meter air rifle in that it is shot with 4.5 mm (or .177) caliber air guns at a distance of 10 m ...

, but a few days later took the gold in the 50 metre pistol event. He also won the

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in 1998 (25 metre standard pistol) and 2002 (10 metre air pistol), and has many other medals from World and European Championships in all four events, and has won four consecutive

ISSF World Cup The ISSF World Cup was introduced by the International Shooting Sport Federation in 1986 to provide a homogeneous system for qualification to the Olympic shooting competitions. It still is carried out in the Olympic shooting events, with four comp ...

Finals in Air Pistol ( 2002- 2005). Starting late as a

25 metre rapid fire pistol 25 meter rapid fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events and is shot with .22 LR pistols. The event has been a part of the Olympic program ever since the beginning in 1896, although its rules changed greatly before World War II, after whic ...

shooter, Nestruyev qualified for the Russian team at the 2009 European Championships, where he won the silver medal. Holding the rank of lieutenant colonel, Nestruyev has also competed successfully for several years in international military competitions.

Olympic results

Records

Gallery

Image:Misha_2007_WCMunich.jpg, Nestruyev - the winner of World Cup'07 in Munich

External links

Nestruyev's profile at ISSF
1968 births Living people Russian male sport shooters Olympic shooters of Russia Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Russia Olympic silver medalists for Russia ISSF pistol shooters World record holders in shooting Sportspeople from Moscow Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics {{Russia-sportshooting-bio-stub