Valery Kimovich Shomin (born 31 July 1971, in Moscow, Soviet Union) [1] is a sport shooter who has thrice represented Russia at the Summer Olympics.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens he participated in the men's skeet event, finishing tied for 15th position. [1] At the 2008 Games in Beijing he finished 19th in the men's skeet. [1] At the 2012 Games he finished 4th in the men's skeet. [2]
Lauryn Annyn Mark née Ogilvie is an Olympic Women's Skeet shooter from Australia. She finished fourth in Women's Skeet in the 2004 Summer Olympics and won three gold medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games. In 1999, she became the youngest competitor ever to win the United States Open Women's Skeet Championship. In 2003, she won the Silver Medal at the World Cup Final in Rome in the Women's Skeet event. In 2004, she married the Australian Olympian Russell Mark. The couple have three children.
Nasser Salih Nasser Abdullah Al-Attiyah is a Qatari rally driver and sport shooter. He was the 2006 Production World Rally Champion, 2014 and 2015 WRC-2 champion, a 13-time Middle East Rally Champion, four times winner of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, and a triple 2011, 2015 and 2019 Dakar Rally winner. His three victories in the Dakar Rally make him the only Middle Easterner and West Asian to win the competition more than once.
Matthew Alexander Dryke is an American former sports shooter. He competed and won a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics. He is two times world champion in skeet shooting, from 1983 and 1986, and earned a silver medal in 1987.
Qatar competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The country's participation at London marked its eighth appearance in the Summer Olympics since its début at the 1984 Summer Olympics. The delegation sent by the Qatar Olympic Committee consisted of twelve athletes in athletics, shooting, swimming and table tennis. The 2012 Games marked the first time Qatar sent female athletes to the Olympic Games; following the 2008 Summer Olympics, it had been one of only three countries, along with Saudi Arabia and Brunei, to never have done so.
Richard Brickell is a sport shooter who represented Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi where he won both individual Gold and Bronze medals in the pairs event.
Paul Nicholas Rahman is a sport shooter who has twice represented Australia at the Summer Olympics.
Roger Dahi is a sport shooter who has twice represented Syria at the Summer Olympics.
Georgios Achilleos is a Cypriot sports shooter and past World titlist and World No. 1 in Skeet.
Marcus Svensson is a Swedish sport shooter born in 1990. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 7th place. At the 2016 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet and finished in second place, earning a silver medal for his native Sweden.
Frank Thompson is an American sport shooter. Thompson was born on March 11, 1988, in Alliance, Nebraska, United States. Thompson became a member of the National Development Team in 2006. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 8th place. He finished in 21st at the 2016 Olympics.
Stefan Nilsson is a Swedish sport shooter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's skeet, finishing in 15th place. He competed in the same event again at the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing 5th.
Azmy Mehelba is an Egyptian sport olympic shooter, who began shooting at age 11. Then he was selected to join the Egyptian national men skeet shooting team by the age of 14. Participated in his first international competition at age 15.
Elena Allen is a British sports shooter. She represented Wales in the Commonwealth Games in 2014, winning the silver medal, having previously won bronze for England at the 2006 Games. She competed for Team GB at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics and has been chosen once more to compete at the 2016 Games.
Juan Carlos Romero Arribas is a Guatemalan sport shooter. Romero made his official debut for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he placed twenty-sixth in men's skeet, with a score of 118 points, tying his position with five other shooters including British-born Cypriot Antonis Nikolaidis.
Saeed Al-Mutairi Bariq is a Saudi Arabian sport shooter. Al-Mutairi made his official debut for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he placed thirty-second in men's skeet shooting, with a hit of 117 targets, tying his position with five other shooters, including six-time Olympian and former silver medalist Eric Swinkels of the Netherlands. He managed to score 119 points for his category at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and eventually achieved his best career result at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, when he shot a total 120 targets in the qualifying rounds, finishing only in seventeenth place.
Zaid Al-Mutairi is a Kuwaiti sport shooter. He won a silver medal, as a member of the Kuwaiti shooting team, at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. He also captured two more medals for skeet shooting at the ISSF World Cup circuit.
Konstantin Yuryevich Tsuranov is a Russian sport shooter. He won a silver medal in men's skeet shooting at the first meet of the 2008 ISSF World Cup in Beijing, with a total hit of 143 targets. He is also the son of Yury Tsuranov, who competed in the same category at three Olympic games, representing the Soviet Union.
Diego Duarte Delgado is a Colombian sport shooter. He won the World Championships in Skeet Men at Lonato World Cup 2003, defeating Eric Wandtdal and olympic Silver Medallist Tore Brovold, Diego also is holder of the Panamerican Record with 149/150, He won a bronze medal in men's skeet shooting at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with a total score of 148 points.
Antonis Nikolaidis is a British-born Cypriot sport shooter. He captured a total of seven medals in men's skeet shooting at the ISSF World Cup series, and shared titles with Costas Stratis at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and with Georgios Achilleos in the doubles at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and 2006 Commonwealth Games. Nikolaidis also competed for Cyprus in the same discipline in three editions of the Olympic Games, but he neither reached the final round, nor claimed an Olympic medal.
Sergey Vladimirovich Aksyutin is a Russian sport shooter. He was selected to compete for Russia at the 2004 Summer Olympics and eventually claimed his only individual medal with a bronze in skeet shooting at the 2006 ISSF World Cup meet in Qingyuan, China. A full-fledged resident athlete of the Shooting Union of Russia, Aksyutin trained throughout his sporting career under head coach Yury Kashuba at SK Sibakademstroy in Novosibirsk.
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