Aleksey Gushchin
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Aleksey Gushchin and Makhmud Umarov at the 1960 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 5 January 1922 Aleksandrovka, Voronezh Oblast, Russian SFSR | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 December 1986(1986-12-14) (aged 64)[1] Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Pistol shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | DOSAAF, Moscow | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Aleksey Petrovich Gushchin (Russian: Алексей Петрович Гущин; 5 January 1922 – 14 December 1986) was a Soviet pistol shooter who won the 50 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics, setting a new Olympic record.[2] During his career he set two world and two European records and won two individual silver medals at the world and European championships. In retirement he worked as a shooting coach and in 1965 wrote a handbook on pistol shooting.[3]
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- 1896: Sumner Paine1 (USA)
- 1900: Karl Röderer (SUI)
- 1908: Paul Van Asbroeck2 (BEL)
- 1912: Alfred Lane (USA)
- 1920: Karl Frederick (USA)
- 1936: Torsten Ullman (SWE)
- 1948: Edwin Vásquez (PER)
- 1952: Huelet Benner (USA)
- 1956: Pentti Linnosvuo (FIN)
- 1960: Aleksey Gushchin (URS)
- 1964: Väinö Markkanen (FIN)
- 1968: Grigory Kosykh (URS)
- 1972: Ragnar Skanåker (SWE)
- 1976: Uwe Potteck (GDR)
- 1980: Alexander Melentyev (URS)
- 1984: Xu Haifeng (CHN)
- 1988: Sorin Babii (ROM)
- 1992: Kanstantsin Lukashyk (EUN)
- 1996: Boris Kokorev (RUS)
- 2000: Tanyu Kiryakov (BUL)
- 2004: Mikhail Nestruyev (RUS)
- 2008: Jin Jong-oh (KOR)
- 2012: Jin Jong-oh (KOR)
- 2016: Jin Jong-oh (KOR)
1 In 1896, the competition distance of the event was 30 metres.
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