Vasily Alexandrovich Mosin (russian: Василий Александрович Мосин; born 9 May 1972, in

Kazan Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering an ...

) is a Russian

sport shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as ...

who specializes in the

double trap Double trap is a shotgun shooting sport, one of the ISSF shooting events. Participants use a shotgun to attempt to break a clay disk flung away from the shooter at high speed. The layout of double trap shooting is similar to that of trap shoot ...

. At the

2004 Olympic Games The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

he finished in nineteenth place in the

qualification, missing out on a place among the top six, who progressed to the final round. He then finished third at the 2005 European Championships and won the 2006 European Championships. At the 2008 Olympic Games he finished in fourteenth place in the

qualification, missing a place among the top six, who progressed to the final round. In the 2012 Olympics, he finished third in

, earning a bronze medal.

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