Personal information | |
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Full name | Tika Ram Shrestha |
Nationality | Nepali |
Born | Kathmandu, Nepal | 2 September 1964
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Shooting |
Event | 10 m air rifle (AR60) |
Tika Ram Shrestha (born 2 September 1964 in Kathmandu) is a Nepalese sport shooter. [1] He has been selected to compete for Nepal in air rifle shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing in the penultimate position out of 47 shooters. [2]
Shrestha qualified as a sole shooter for the Nepalese team in the men's 10 m air rifle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He had been granted an Olympic invitation for his country by ISSF and IOC, having registered a minimum qualifying score of 570 at the ISSF World Cup meet in Bangkok, Thailand few months earlier. [2] [3] 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. [4]