2006 ISSF World Cup
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The 2006 ISSF World Cup
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 competitions per year in each event...

was held in the fifteen Olympic shooting events
ISSF shooting events
The International Shooting Sport Federation recognizes several shooting events, some of which have Olympic status. They are divided into four disciplines: rifle, pistol, shotgun and running target....

. Four qualification events were held in each event, spanning from March to June, and the best shooters qualified for the ISSF World Cup Final in Granada
Granada
Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, the Beiro, the Darro and the Genil. It sits at an elevation of 738 metres above sea...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 in October. It was the first time in the history of the competition that the finals in all events were held at a single venue.

During the final in Granada, while defending her title in the women's Air Rifle competition, Chinese Du Li
Du Li
Du Li is a female Chinese sport shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won the gold medal in the women's 10 metre air rifle competition. She has achieved the maximum 400 in this event twice...

 equalled the world record with a perfect 400 score, becoming the second woman in the world to achieve this for a second time. Also in the men's Air Rifle, Thomas Farnik
Thomas Farnik
Thomas Farnik, born 6 January 1967 in Vienna, is an Austrian rifle shooter.He was twelve years old when his father introduced him to shooting. He started with a rifle, and his father remained involved with his early training....

 of Austria set a new final world record with 703.1.

Alexei Klimov bettered the world record in 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol
25 m Rapid Fire Pistol
25 metre rapid fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events. 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 which they were only slightly changed until the two major revisions of 1989 and 2005...

 from 589 to 591 and won narrowly after losing most of his pre-final advantage.

In men's Trap, Czech David Kostelecky
David Kostelecký
David Kostelecký is a male Czech sports shooter. He won the gold medal in the Men's Trap event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He also finished second in the 2006 ISSF World Cup final.-Olympic results:...

 equalled the perfect world record of 125, but missed three targets in the final and eventually lost to Olympic and European champion Aleksei Alipov
Aleksei Alipov
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Alipov is a Russian Olympic Trap shooter. He is the 2004 Olympic champion in that discipline.Born in Moscow, he started the sport at age 13 and was eventually trained at the Russian Academy of Sport...

 on shoot-off; both shooters also equalled the final world record.

Winners

WC 1 WC 2 WC 3 WC 4 Final
Guangzhou
Guangzhou
Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

, China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

Resende
Resende, Rio de Janeiro
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, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, Germany
Germany
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Milan
Milan
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, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

Granada
Granada
Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, the Beiro, the Darro and the Genil. It sits at an elevation of 738 metres above sea...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

25 Mar – 02 Apr 25 Apr – 3 May 22 May – 29 May 29 May – 05 Jun 02 Oct – 08 Oct
Men's 50 m Rifle
50 metre rifle three positions
50 metre rifle three positions is an International Shooting Sport Federation event, a miniature version of 300 metre rifle three positions. It consists of the prone, standing and kneeling positions, fired in that order, with 3×40 shots for men and 3×20 shots for women...


3 Positions
Three positions
International Rifle events in Three positions are conducted with an equal number of shots fired from the Prone, the Standing and the Kneeling positions, always in that order....

Vebjørn Berg
Vebjørn Berg
Vebjørn Berg is a Norwegian sports shooter. He did well at several ISSF World Cups. He was also on the winning Norwegian team at the 2002 Shooting World Championship. He represented his country at the 2008 Summer Olympics and received fourth at Men's 50 metre rifle prone.- External links :*...


Thomas Farnik
Thomas Farnik
Thomas Farnik, born 6 January 1967 in Vienna, is an Austrian rifle shooter.He was twelve years old when his father introduced him to shooting. He started with a rifle, and his father remained involved with his early training....


Sergei Kovalenko
Liu Zhiwei
Liu Zhiwei
Liu Zhiwei is a male Chinese sports shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.In 2004, he finished 19th in the men's 50 metre rifle three positions competition.-External links:*...


Rajmond Debevec
Rajmond Debevec
Rajmond Debevec was born in Postojna, Slovenia, a part of the former Yugoslavia, on March 29, 1963. He became involved in shooting sports in 1971 and became a member of Junior national team in 1979. He won his first medal in 1980 by participating in Junior European Championship with air rifle...


Men's 50 m Rifle
50 metre rifle prone
50 metre rifle prone is an International Shooting Sport Federation event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position with a .22 Long Rifle caliber rifle...


Prone
Prone position
The term means to lie on bed or ground in a position with chest downwards and back upwards.-Etymology :The word "prone," meaning "naturally inclined to something, apt, liable," has been recorded in English since 1382; the meaning "lying face-down" was first recorded in 1578, but is also referred to...

Sergei Martynov
Sergei Martynov (sport shooter)
Sergei Martynov is a Belarusian 50 m Rifle shooter, originally from Russia....


Thomas Tamas
Thomas Tamas
Thomas A. "Tom" Tamas is an American sport shooter.He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He competed for the United States in the 2000 Summer Olympics, in the Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50, coming in tied for 13th. He shares the world record in the 50 meter rifle prone competition.-Current world...


Peter Sidi
Sergei Martynov
Sergei Martynov (sport shooter)
Sergei Martynov is a Belarusian 50 m Rifle shooter, originally from Russia....


Sergei Martynov
Sergei Martynov (sport shooter)
Sergei Martynov is a Belarusian 50 m Rifle shooter, originally from Russia....


Men's 10 m Air Rifle
10 m Air Rifle
10 metre air rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation shooting event, shot over a distance of 10 metres from a standing position with a 4.5 mm calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of 5.5 kg...

Gagan Narang
Gagan Narang
Gagan Narang is an ace Indian shooter, especially in Air rifle shooting, supported by the Olympic Gold Quest. He is the first Indian to qualify for the London Olympics.-Career:...


Christian Planer
Jozef Gönci
Jozef Gönci
Jozef Gönci is a Slovak sport shooter, specialising in the 50 m Rifle and 10 m Air Rifle. Gönci won independent Slovakia's first ever Olympic Medal, a bronze in Atlanta in 1996. He won another bronze medal eight years later at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.- External links :*...


Zhu Qinan
Zhu Qinan
Zhu Qinan is a male Chinese sport shooter. He won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event and a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event. Zhu currently is studying at Zhejiang University.Zhu began shooting training at Wenzhou...


Thomas Farnik
Thomas Farnik
Thomas Farnik, born 6 January 1967 in Vienna, is an Austrian rifle shooter.He was twelve years old when his father introduced him to shooting. He started with a rifle, and his father remained involved with his early training....


Men's 50 m Pistol
50 m Pistol
50 metre pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called free pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It provides the purest precision shooting among the pistol events, and is one of the oldest shooting types, dating back to the 19th century and only having seen marginal rule changes since...

Jin Jong Oh
Mikhail Nestruev
Mikhail Nestruev
Mikhail Valeryevich Nestruyev is a pistol shooter from Moscow, Russia. He is an all-round shooter, having achieved great successes in all five ISSF pistol events. He holds the 25 metre center-fire pistol world record of 594...


Joao Costa
João Costa (sport shooter)
João Carlos Calvete Pereira da Costa is a Portuguese sports shooter who competed in the Summer Olympic Games in 2000, 2004 and 2008. Costa has also qualified to compete in the men's 10 m air pistol event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.-References:...


Xu Kun
Vladimir Isakov
Vladimir Isakov
Vladimir Isakov , is a male Russian sport shooter.He has been a member of the Russian national shooting team since 1991. He lives in Pushkino, and his married to Irina...


Men's 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol
25 m Rapid Fire Pistol
25 metre rapid fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events. 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 which they were only slightly changed until the two major revisions of 1989 and 2005...

Ralf Schumann
Ralf Schumann
Ralf Schumann is a German 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol shooter. He is a three-time Olympic Champion and twice World Champion....


Oleksandr Petriv
Oleksandr Petriv
Oleksandr Petriv is an Olympic shooter from Ukraine. He was born in Lviv. He won a gold medal in the Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.- Links :*...


Ralf Schumann
Ralf Schumann
Ralf Schumann is a German 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol shooter. He is a three-time Olympic Champion and twice World Champion....


Ralf Schumann
Ralf Schumann
Ralf Schumann is a German 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol shooter. He is a three-time Olympic Champion and twice World Champion....


Alexei Klimov
Men's 10 m Air Pistol
10 m Air Pistol
10 metre air pistol is an Olympic shooting event governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation . It is similar to 10 metre air rifle in that it is shot with 4.5 mm caliber air guns at a distance of 10 metres , and the programme consists of 60 shots within 105 minutes...

Jin Jong Oh
Franck Dumoulin
Franck Dumoulin
Franck Dumoulin is a pistol shooter from Bordeaux, France.- Olympic Games :- World Championships :* 1994 World Championships :** Gold Medal in 10 m Air Pistol** Bronze Medal in 50 m Pistol...


Tan Zongliang
Tan Zongliang
Tan Zongliang is a male Chinese sports shooter. He has won two consecutive ISSF World Shooting Championships in 50 metre pistol: in 2002 in Lahti and in 2006 in Zagreb. In the 2008 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the same event, a medal that was upgraded to silver after Kim Jong-su's...


Tan Zongliang
Tan Zongliang
Tan Zongliang is a male Chinese sports shooter. He has won two consecutive ISSF World Shooting Championships in 50 metre pistol: in 2002 in Lahti and in 2006 in Zagreb. In the 2008 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the same event, a medal that was upgraded to silver after Kim Jong-su's...


Vladimir Gontcharov
Women's 50 m Rifle
50 metre rifle three positions
50 metre rifle three positions is an International Shooting Sport Federation event, a miniature version of 300 metre rifle three positions. It consists of the prone, standing and kneeling positions, fired in that order, with 3×40 shots for men and 3×20 shots for women...


3 Positions
Three positions
International Rifle events in Three positions are conducted with an equal number of shots fired from the Prone, the Standing and the Kneeling positions, always in that order....

Liu Bo
Liu Bo
Liu Bo is a Chinese professional association football player. He currently plays for Hunan Billows in China League One.-Club career:Liu started his senior career with Dongguan Nancheng in Hong Kong First Division League in 2003. He transferred to Zhejiang Greentown in 2006 but did not establish...


Tatiana Goldobina
Tatiana Goldobina
Tatiana Goldobina is a Russian sports shooter and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.-Olympic results:-Records:-References:...


Sonja Pfeilschifter
Sonja Pfeilschifter
Sonja Pfeilschifter is a German rifle shooter. After winning the 1991 World Junior Championship in 10 metre air rifle, she won the World Championships of 1994 and 1998, in 1998 doubling with a victory in 50 metre rifle three positions...


Wang Chengyi
Wang Chengyi
Wang Chengyi is a female Chinese sports shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.She won the bronze medal in the women's 50 metre rifle three positions competition.-External links:*...


Lioubov Galkina
Lioubov Galkina
Lioubov Galkina is a Russian sports shooter and Olympic champion. She received two medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In her five Olympic starts, she has reached the final each time....


Women's 10 m Air Rifle
10 m Air Rifle
10 metre air rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation shooting event, shot over a distance of 10 metres from a standing position with a 4.5 mm calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of 5.5 kg...

Zhao Yinghui
Zhao Yinghui
Zhao Yinghui is a female Chinese sports shooter who competed in 10 metre air rifle at the 2000 Summer Olympics, the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She reached the 2004 final and finished fourth.-Olympic results:-Records:...


Kateřina Kůrková
Elsa Caputo
Du Li
Du Li
Du Li is a female Chinese sport shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won the gold medal in the women's 10 metre air rifle competition. She has achieved the maximum 400 in this event twice...


Du Li
Du Li
Du Li is a female Chinese sport shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won the gold medal in the women's 10 metre air rifle competition. She has achieved the maximum 400 in this event twice...


Women's 25 m Pistol
25 m Pistol
25 metre pistol, formerly and unofficially still often known as sport pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It was devised as a women's event in the 1960s, based upon the rules of 25 metre center-fire pistol but shot with a .22-caliber sport pistol instead of the larger-caliber guns men used...

Lalita Yauhleuskaya
Jasna Šekarić
Jasna Šekaric
|- bgcolor="#eeeeee" align=center! colspan="4" | Competed as an Jasna Šekarić |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" align=center! colspan="4" | Competed as an Jasna Šekarić |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" align=center! colspan="4" | Competed as an Jasna Šekarić (Cyrillic: Јасна Шекарић, née Brajković (Брајковић) (born...


Otryadyn Gündegmaa
Otryadyn Gündegmaa
Otryadyn Gündegmaa , is an Olympic athlete who competes in sports shooting. She was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Gündegmaa competed in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics, with her best finish being fifth place in the 1996 Games in 25m sporting pistol. In 2008 she won a silver medal for Mongolia...


Fei Fengji
Fei Fengji
Fei Fengji is a female Chinese sports shooter, who will compete for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Records:*2006 World Championships - 2nd 25m sporting pistol;...


Otryadyn Gündegmaa
Otryadyn Gündegmaa
Otryadyn Gündegmaa , is an Olympic athlete who competes in sports shooting. She was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Gündegmaa competed in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics, with her best finish being fifth place in the 1996 Games in 25m sporting pistol. In 2008 she won a silver medal for Mongolia...


Women's 10 m Air Pistol
10 m Air Pistol
10 metre air pistol is an Olympic shooting event governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation . It is similar to 10 metre air rifle in that it is shot with 4.5 mm caliber air guns at a distance of 10 metres , and the programme consists of 60 shots within 105 minutes...

Ren Jie
Ren Jie
Ren Jie is a female Chinese sports shooter who competed in 10 metre air pistol at the 2000 Summer Olympics, the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She reached the 2004 final and finished fourth.-Olympic results:-Records:...


Jasna Šekarić
Jasna Šekaric
|- bgcolor="#eeeeee" align=center! colspan="4" | Competed as an Jasna Šekarić |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" align=center! colspan="4" | Competed as an Jasna Šekarić |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" align=center! colspan="4" | Competed as an Jasna Šekarić (Cyrillic: Јасна Шекарић, née Brajković (Брајковић) (born...


Fei Fengji
Fei Fengji
Fei Fengji is a female Chinese sports shooter, who will compete for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Records:*2006 World Championships - 2nd 25m sporting pistol;...


Jasna Šekarić
Jasna Šekaric
|- bgcolor="#eeeeee" align=center! colspan="4" | Competed as an Jasna Šekarić |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" align=center! colspan="4" | Competed as an Jasna Šekarić |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" align=center! colspan="4" | Competed as an Jasna Šekarić (Cyrillic: Јасна Шекарић, née Brajković (Брајковић) (born...


Natalia Paderina
Natalia Paderina
Natalia Paderina is a Russian sport shooter. She won the silver medal in Women's 10m air pistol at the 2008 Summer Olympics. At that event, she shared the podium with bronze medalist Nino Salukvadze of Georgia. Georgia and Russia were at war at the time...


WC 1 WC 2 WC 3 WC 4 Final
Qingyuan
Qingyuan
Qingyuan , historically known as Tsingyün, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Guangdong province of Southern China. Its total population is 3.7 million, and the primary language spoken is Cantonese. With an area of 19,015 km², Qingyuan is the city of the largest land area in Guangdong...

, China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

Kerrville
Kerrville, Texas
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, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Cairo
Cairo
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, Egypt
Egypt
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Suhl
Suhl
- Geography :Suhl sits on the south edge of the Suhler Scholle, an upthrust granite complex that is streaked by numerous dikes. This is part of the Ruhla-Schleusingen Horst that defines the southwest side of the Thuringian Forest...

, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

Granada
Granada
Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, the Beiro, the Darro and the Genil. It sits at an elevation of 738 metres above sea...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

02 Apr – 11 Apr 4 May – 12 May 16 May – 25 May 06 Jun – 15 Jun 02 Oct – 08 Oct
Men's Trap
Olympic Trap
Officially referred to only as trap, and also known in the United States as international trap, bunker trap, trench or international clay pigeon, the single-target Olympic trap shooting event has a history over a hundred years old...

Massimo Fabbrizi
Aleksei Alipov
Aleksei Alipov
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Alipov is a Russian Olympic Trap shooter. He is the 2004 Olympic champion in that discipline.Born in Moscow, he started the sport at age 13 and was eventually trained at the Russian Academy of Sport...


Stefan Ruettgeroth
Pavel Gurkin
Pavel Gurkin
Pavel Gurkin is a Russian sport shooter who specializes in the trap.At the 2008 Olympic Games he finished in joint tenth place in the trap qualification, missing a place among the top six, who progressed to the final round.-References:...


Aleksei Alipov
Aleksei Alipov
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Alipov is a Russian Olympic Trap shooter. He is the 2004 Olympic champion in that discipline.Born in Moscow, he started the sport at age 13 and was eventually trained at the Russian Academy of Sport...


Men's Double Trap
Double Trap
Double trap is a clay pigeon 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....

Vitaly Fokeev
Vitaly Fokeev
Vitaly Fokeev is a Russian sport shooter who specializes in the double trap.At the 2004 Olympic Games he finished in joint place in the double trap qualification...


Vasily Mosin
Vasily Mosin
Vasily Mosin is a Russian sport shooter who specializes in the double trap.At the 2004 Olympic Games he finished in nineteenth place in the double trap qualification, missing out on a place among the top six, who progressed to the final round.He then finished third at the 2005 European...


Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is an Indian shooter who won the silver medal in Men's Double Trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...


Hu Binyuan
Hu Binyuan
Hu Binyuan is a male Chinese sports shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics.He finished fourth at the 2004 double trap competition and won the bronze medal in the 2008 double trap competition.-Records:...


Vitaly Fokeev
Vitaly Fokeev
Vitaly Fokeev is a Russian sport shooter who specializes in the double trap.At the 2004 Olympic Games he finished in joint place in the double trap qualification...


Men's Skeet
Olympic Skeet
Skeet is a variant of skeet shooting, and the specific variant used in the Olympic Games. Two throwing machines at different heights launch a series of 25 targets in a specific order, some as singles and some as doubles, with the shooter having a fixed position between them. Men's competitions...

Qu Ridong
Qu Ridong
Qu Ridong is a male Chinese sports shooter. He competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Double Trap Men event...


Ennio Falco
Ennio Falco
Ennio Falco is an Italian sports shooter and Olympic Champion. He won Gold medal in Skeet Shooting in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta....


Axel Wegner
Axel Wegner
Axel Wegner is a German sports shooter and Olympic Champion. He won Gold medal in skeet shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.-References:...


Tino Wenzel
Valeriy Shomin
Valeriy Shomin
Valery Kimovich Shomin is a sport shooter who has twice 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. At the 2008 Games in Beijing he finished 19th in the men's skeet.-References:...


Women's Trap
Olympic Trap
Officially referred to only as trap, and also known in the United States as international trap, bunker trap, trench or international clay pigeon, the single-target Olympic trap shooting event has a history over a hundred years old...

Zuzana Štefečeková
Zuzana Štefeceková
Zuzana Štefečeková is a female Slovakian sports shooter. She won the silver medal in the Women's Trap event at the 2008 Summer Olympics....


Zhu Mei
Zuzana Štefečeková
Zuzana Štefeceková
Zuzana Štefečeková is a female Slovakian sports shooter. She won the silver medal in the Women's Trap event at the 2008 Summer Olympics....


Satu Mäkelä-Nummela
Satu Mäkelä-Nummela
Satu Mäkelä-Nummela is a female Finnish sports shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women's Trap event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She has also won bronze medals in Women's Trap event in 1995 and 2009 at ISSF World Shotgun Championships. Her club is OSU .-Records:-References:...


Elena Tkach
Women's Skeet
Olympic Skeet
Skeet is a variant of skeet shooting, and the specific variant used in the Olympic Games. Two throwing machines at different heights launch a series of 25 targets in a specific order, some as singles and some as doubles, with the shooter having a fixed position between them. Men's competitions...

Shi Hong Yan
Connie Smotek
Danka Bartekova
Svetlana Demina
Svetlana Demina
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Demina is a Russian sport shooter, specializing in the skeet shootings event. She won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in the skeet event. She has competed at five Olympic Games: 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 ....


Chiara Cainero
Chiara Cainero
Chiara Cainero is an Italian sport shooter who won a gold medal in Skeet at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-References:...



Triple winners

(RFP
25 m Rapid Fire Pistol
25 metre rapid fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events. 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 which they were only slightly changed until the two major revisions of 1989 and 2005...

) (SP
25 m Pistol
25 metre pistol, formerly and unofficially still often known as sport pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It was devised as a women's event in the 1960s, based upon the rules of 25 metre center-fire pistol but shot with a .22-caliber sport pistol instead of the larger-caliber guns men used...

 and AP40
10 m Air Pistol
10 metre air pistol is an Olympic shooting event governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation . It is similar to 10 metre air rifle in that it is shot with 4.5 mm caliber air guns at a distance of 10 metres , and the programme consists of 60 shots within 105 minutes...

) (FR60PR
50 metre rifle prone
50 metre rifle prone is an International Shooting Sport Federation event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position with a .22 Long Rifle caliber rifle...

)

Double winners

(FP
50 m Pistol
50 metre pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called free pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It provides the purest precision shooting among the pistol events, and is one of the oldest shooting types, dating back to the 19th century and only having seen marginal rule changes since...

 and AP60
10 m Air Pistol
10 metre air pistol is an Olympic shooting event governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation . It is similar to 10 metre air rifle in that it is shot with 4.5 mm caliber air guns at a distance of 10 metres , and the programme consists of 60 shots within 105 minutes...

) (TR75
Olympic Trap
Officially referred to only as trap, and also known in the United States as international trap, bunker trap, trench or international clay pigeon, the single-target Olympic trap shooting event has a history over a hundred years old...

) (SP and AP40) (AR60
10 m Air Rifle
10 metre air rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation shooting event, shot over a distance of 10 metres from a standing position with a 4.5 mm calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of 5.5 kg...

) (TR125
Olympic Trap
Officially referred to only as trap, and also known in the United States as international trap, bunker trap, trench or international clay pigeon, the single-target Olympic trap shooting event has a history over a hundred years old...

) (SP) (DT150
Double Trap
Double trap is a clay pigeon 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....

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50 metre rifle three positions
50 metre rifle three positions is an International Shooting Sport Federation event, a miniature version of 300 metre rifle three positions. It consists of the prone, standing and kneeling positions, fired in that order, with 3×40 shots for men and 3×20 shots for women...

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10 m Air Rifle
10 metre air rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation shooting event, shot over a distance of 10 metres from a standing position with a 4.5 mm calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of 5.5 kg...

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10 m Air Rifle
10 metre air rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation shooting event, shot over a distance of 10 metres from a standing position with a 4.5 mm calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of 5.5 kg...

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See also

  • 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships
    2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships
    The 49th ISSF World Shooting Championships were held in Zagreb, Croatia from July 22, 2006 to August 5, 2006.- Medal count :- World records :A total of 15 world records were bettered or equalled during the championships.- Men :- Women :- Men :...

  • Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification
    Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification
    -Qualification rules:A nation may earn up to 2 quota places per event, except for Women's Trap and Skeet, where the maximum is 1 quota place per event.The qualification consists of two parts:...

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