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RIO-2016 Shooting bullet and bench

At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, 10 sets of awards will be played - six for men and four for women. Petersburgers Vladimir Goncharov and Kirill Grigorian will take part in the competition.

Bullet shooting

Without a single miss

Baron Pierre de Coubertin initiated the inclusion of bullet shooting in the Olympic program. The founder of the modern Olympic Games was a seven-time French champion in pistol shooting. At the Games of the 1st Olympiad, shooters competed in five types, the competitions were held at a new shooting range specially built for the Games of 1896 in the city of Kalithea, now a "sleeping" area of Athens. The shooting gallery was inaugurated on April 8 in the presence of Olga, Queen of Greece, granddaughter of the Russian Emperor Nicholas I.

The first prize-winners were determined the next day in a dispute between shooters from an army rifle at 200 meters. The counting system was different from that established in subsequent years. In each of the series, the points scored by the shooter were multiplied by the number of hits on the target, this result was one of four parts of the total, which significantly increased the importance of accurate shooting, because misses reduced the multiplier. At the end of the competition, it turned out that only one participant, Pantelis Karasevdas, a law student in Athens, successfully shot all 40 times at a black target with a white center and won with a total of 2320 points. Pantelis, a young athlete born in 1877, was also involved in swimming and athletics, but only in shooting at the Athens Games. Shooting with an army rifle at 300 meters, he finished fifth, and in shooting with a revolver at 25 meters, he did not finish the competition. A year after the Olympic victory, Karasevdas joined the army, took part in various military operations and rose to the high officer rank. His political activities were no less intense - the former athlete was elected to parliament. For ten years, Karasevdas was a member of the National Olympic Committee, headed the Greek Gymnastics Association. In the 1920s, he was President of Panathinaikos Football Club. The first Olympic champion in shooting died in March 1946 in Agrinion. One of the streets in this city is named after Karasevdas.

Overcome the ordeal

The list of our Olympic champions in bullet shooting was opened on July 27, 1952 at the Games in Helsinki, Anatoly Bogdanov. The soldier from the Moscow region outpaced three dozen rivals in shooting from a rifle of an arbitrary sample by 300 m in three series of 40 shots. The 21-year-old shooter set an Olympic record of 1123 points (standing - 359, kneeling - 376, lying - 388). At the shooting range in the town of Malmi, where the airport of the Finnish capital was at that time, Bogdanov and the winner of the world championships, Swiss Robert Bürhler, were located in neighboring positions. Bogdanov's advantage in shooting from a standing position was 9 points, in shooting from the knee, Bürhler set a world record (381 points), and in prone position he knocked out a point more than the Soviet athlete. But in total, according to the results of the six-hour struggle, Bogdanov was ahead of the competitor by three points. Four years later, in Melbourne, Anatoly won the second Olympic gold medal, becoming the strongest in small-bore rifle shooting at 50 m (3 x 40 shots).

At the end of his sports career, Bogdanov studied at the V.I.Lenin Military-Political Academy, for a long time he taught at military universities. An outstanding shooter, the author of the book "I See the Target" Anatoly Ivanovich Bogdanov passed away in September 2001.

Both champion and record holder

The victorious success in Melbourne of Anatoly Bogdanov in shooting from a small-bore rifle at 50 m in three series of 40 rounds was continued at the Games of 1960 in the same discipline by Viktor Shamburkin. On September 8, at the Umberto I shooting range in Rome, he won gold with a world record of 1149 points (lying - 394, from knee - 386, standing - 369). Shamburkin was the first of the Leningrad shooters to achieve the title of Olympic champion. In the qualifying competition, the representative of DOSAAF, the 1958 world champion, took second place in his group of 38 athletes, gaining 562 points (197 + 189 + 176) out of 600 possible, and in the final he was four points ahead of Marat Niyazov, who became the silver medalist from Ashgabat. Note that in comparison with the previous Olympic tournament, the target diameter in Roman competitions was almost 4 cm smaller.

Born in October 1931 in Leningrad, Viktor Shamburkin also participated in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, but did not get into the prize-winners. Subsequently, a graduate of the Lesgaft Institute was the head coach of the national team of the Soviet Union. Under the guidance of the honored coach of the USSR, the united team also performed at the 1992 Olympic Games. Since 1970, Viktor Nikolaevich has been living in Moscow.

Shooting bench

At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, five sets of awards will be played - three for men and two for women. Petersburg stand-ups will not take part in the Games.

Accurate Frenchman

Trap shooting was first introduced at the Games of the II Olympiad in Paris in 1900. Then the competitions were held simultaneously with the World Exhibition, and only part of the shooting competitions held later was recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as part of the official program of the Games. So, the exotic variety of trap shooting - at live pigeons - has disappeared. They were shot in a three-day competition at the end of June. But the clay pigeon target shooting competition, which took place at the shooting stand on the Seguin Island from July 15 to 17, received Olympic status. Winner in a five-nation dispute, 40-year-old French shooter Roger de Barbarin became the first Olympic champion in clay pigeon shooting. Black-mustached athlete beat 18-year-old Belgian Rene Guyot in a shootout (13-12), as in the main competition each had seventeen accurate shots out of twenty. Interestingly, the third prize-winner was the same age as the champion - the French Count Justignen de Clari, one of the organizers of this competition. Subsequently, he became president of the French Olympic Committee, served for 14 years in the IOC and ran for president of this highest governing body of the Olympic movement.

A native of Paris, Roger de Barbarin was the son of the artist Thomas de Barbarin and the great-uncle of the inventor of the adding machine, Thomas Colmar. He died in the French capital in March 1925.

First on skeet

Among the athletes of our country, the Moscow army fighter Yevgeny Petrov was the first to win the highest Olympic award in clay pigeon shooting. October 22, 1968 at the Olympic Games in Mexico City at the Vicente Suarez shooting range, the 30-year-old athlete became the champion in the round stand shooting. During the two-day competition, he broke 198 out of 200 plates (Olympic record), and his series were expressed in the results: 24, 25, 25, 24, 25, 25, 25, 25. In a shootout for 1 - 3 places, hitting 25 targets , Petrov is one point ahead of the Italian Romano Garanani and Konrad Virnhir from the Federal Republic of Germany.

It was the first time that Olympic competitions were held at the round stand. Here the cymbals appear from two dots and the arrow numbers are positioned along a segment of the circle. The rifle is held with the butt under the arm, throwing it up only when the target appears. Petrov opened the list of winners in this type of clay pigeon shooting. Four years later, in Munich, he won another medal in it - a silver one. In 1970, Eugene set an absolute world record - 200 out of 200.

Later, the honored coach of the USSR, Evgeny Aleksandrovich Petrov, was the senior coach of the national team and the head coach in clay pigeon shooting of the united team at the 1992 Olympic Games. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the International Rifle Union. Lives in Moscow.

"Bronze" of a Leningrader

A significant Olympic achievement of the booths of the city on the Neva is the bronze medal of Sergei Kalinin in 1960 in Rome at the trench stand. Other representatives of the Leningrad-Petersburg trap shooting did not achieve Olympic awards. On September 9, at the Lazio stand in the center of the Italian capital, the 33-year-old Leningrad soldier finished the competition in the final with the rank of bronze medalist. Kalinin scored 190 points (1st day - 99, 2nd - 91). He also participated in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, but there he was limited to 22nd place. A native of Yaroslavl, Sergei Alekseevich Kalinin, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, twice became the world champion. At the end of his sports career, he worked as a coach. The Olympic medalist passed away in October 1997.

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RIO DE JANEIRO, 15 Aug - R-Sport, Semyon Galkevich. The shooting competition ended at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. The Russian national bullet shooting team took four awards (two silver and two bronzes), each of which was brought to the team by the debutants of the Games, and the national clay pigeon shooting team for the first time since the 1992 Olympics was left without medals, moreover, the Russians did not reach the final in any exercise.

Silver medals in Rio were won by 19-year-old Vitalina Batsarashkina (in air pistol shooting) and 28-year-old Sergei Kamensky (small-bore rifle, three positions), bronze awards - 21-year-old Vladimir Maslennikov (air rifle) and 24-year-old Kirill Grigorian ( small-bore rifle, prone position). Thus, the Russian bullet fighters showed the best result in Rio over the past 12 years: in London the team did not have a single medal, in Beijing - two silver and one bronze.

The head of the SSR: the Olympic Games showed that the national team has problems with clay pigeon shootingShooting competitions take place at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro from 6 to 14 August. In trap shooting, the Russians did not reach the finals in any of the four exercises, only one event remained in the program - the men's skete.

In terms of the number of medals in bullet shooting, the Russian national team lost only to the Chinese (seven awards). The main victors were: Italian Niccolo Campriani (three finals and two golds), the first Olympic champion in Vietnam's history Hoang Xuan Vinh (gold and silver), 20-year-old Greek Anna Korakaki (gold and bronze) and the famous Chinese woman Du Li (silver and bronze ).

Korean Jin Jongo became the first shooter in history to win one exercise gold in three consecutive Olympics (small bore pistol). Fehayd al-Dihani of Kuwait, who has competed under the flag of the International Olympic Committee in Brazil due to the disqualification of the national Olympic committee, won the double-trap exercise and became the first independent Olympic champion in history.

The German team took the first place in the medal standings among the bullet fighters (three gold medals and one silver), and the Italian team (two gold and three silver medals) among the stand-ups.

Rio lights up new stars

If on the first competitive day at the Olympics in Brazil, the Russians could not win medals (Daria Vdovina and Vladimir Goncharov made it to the final, but took fifth and seventh places, respectively, and technical problems prevented the two-time bronze medalist of the Games Vladimir Isakov from making it to the final), then a day later a new star has appeared in world shooting: Vitalina Batsarashkina.

First, the 19-year-old athlete, who previously took part in only several stages of the World Cup at an adult level, took first place in the qualification (another Russian Ekaterina Korshunova became the second), and then confidently worked the final, sensationally winning silver medals. "I am happy with the second place, I did everything I could. It's still difficult to fight the Chinese. Moreover, the Chinese woman Zhang Mengxue won with a record of the Olympic finals," Batsarashkina said.

The very next day, Russian bullet fighters won their second medal in Rio. The bronze medal in air rifle shooting was won by 21-year-old Vladimir Maslennikov, who only started performing at the senior level last year. "To achieve this result, I had to put in a lot of effort," Maslennikov said. "Emotions are overwhelming, too many emotions. I dedicate the medal to my small town of Lesnoy, in which 50 thousand people live."

In shooting from a small-caliber pistol for women, Korshunova got very close to the podium, but stopped at the fifth line. “In general, for the first Olympics, two finals (small-bore and air pistol) are a successful result. Still, I do not have enough experience, I need to participate more in competitions of such a large level,” said Korshunova.

Vladimir Goncharov, for whom the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro became the first after the 2000 Games, took sixth place in small-bore pistol shooting. “Participation in two finals at the Olympics is important, of course, but I came to Rio for medals,” Goncharov said. “This year, it was decided that we would prepare for the Olympics at home without international starts. not quite the right tactic was chosen. It is necessary to pay attention to this, trips are needed, some home workouts are not enough. "

Lisin: The Olympics showed that Russian bullet fighters are among the best in the worldShooting competitions take place at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro from 6 to 14 August. In bullet shooting, the Russians won three medals: 19-year-old Vitalina Batsarashkina became the silver medalist of the Games, 21-year-old Vladimir Maslennikov and 24-year-old Kirill Grigoryan won bronze.

The third medal for the Russian national bullet shooting team was won by 24-year-old Kirill Grigoryan, who won bronze in prone shooting with a small-bore rifle from 50 meters. “I am glad for bronze, but there is a little disappointment, I could have climbed higher. Excitement prevented me - it seems that I’m calm. It's hard to fight with emotions, excitement swept over me, made two unsuccessful shots - and that's it: I'm only the third,” said Grigorian.

Sad for the veterans, happy for the youth

The penultimate day of competition brought one of the most unexpected results of the tournament. In shooting with a rapid-fire pistol from a distance of 25 meters, the Olympic record holder Alexei Klimov could not correct the situation in which he found himself after an unsuccessful first day of qualification, and became only ninth.

"One word - sadness, now I only feel sadness and sadness," said Klimov. I could not cope with myself. I was worried, fussed, worried - and everything went wrong. It is very insulting, sad for the veterans, for myself, and the victories of the young guys are consolation, these are hopes. It's good that we have medals, and they take them young people".

Another Olympic debutant, 28-year-old Sergei Kamensky, brought the fourth medal in shooting on the last day of competition in Russia. A native of Biysk qualified for the final with an Olympic record, and another Russian Fedor Vlasov got into the top eight according to the results of qualification.

In the final, after two positions, Kamensky shared first place with the reigning Olympic champion Niccolo Campriani, who was only among the participants in the final in terms of additional indicators, and Vlasov was third. With the second shot from a standing position, Vlasov hit "5.7", which threw him to seventh place, and the Russian dropped out of the fight. Kamensky walked in first place until the last shot in the final. When Campriani hit "9.2" with the last shot, the Italian could only shrug his shoulders, and Kamensky hit the "nine" (even "8.7" was enough), but the Russian hit "8.3" and missed the gold that could be for the Russian shooters first in 12 years.

“It's a nightmare, I don’t know how this could have happened,” said Evgeny Krainov, the senior coach of the Russian national bullet shooting team. “Campriani has already resigned himself to losing, the gold was already given to us by the Italian, it only remained to take it, and we turned out to be even more cordial than Campriani, gave him a bigger gift. "

Kamensky admitted that he does not consider his silver "bitter". “I’m quite happy, I’m very pleased with my performance in the final. I had good shooting until the last shots, when I couldn’t cope with emotions. In general, I’m glad. In fact, losing gold with one shot is easy, generally simple! looks difficult, but in fact easy, because on the last shots emotions reach such a climax that you can, honestly, not hit the target. It's actually like a lottery, "said Kamensky.

Summing up the performance of the Russian national bullet shooting team at the Olympics in Brazil, President of the Russian Shooting Union Vladimir Lisin noted that the Russian team "is among the leaders of the world shooting." “In ten exercises in bullet shooting, we have eleven people participated in the finals. Many federations measure the effectiveness of their training precisely by the number of finals, because the finals itself is already a small lottery. It's good that there are so many finals, we are happy with the results, and especially the fact that we have young people - this is the most interesting, "- said Lisin.

Trap shooting: "zero-based" for Russia

A much less joyful picture was presented in Brazil by Russian stand artists. In none of the five exercises did the Russians reach the finals, although in two cases they were very close: Albina Shakirova (skete) took part in the shootout for the last ticket to the final, and the 2004 Olympics champion Alexei Alipov (trap) took seventh place in qualification ( the first six reach the final).

In the men's skete, Anton Astakhov took 12th place in qualification, in the women's trap Tatyana Barsuk became 18th, and Ekaterina Rabaya - 11th. The main disappointment was the performance of the Russian stand-men in the double-ladder exercise, where the bronze medalist of the Games in London Vasily Mosin and Vitaly Fokeev, the 2006 world champion and the winner of the 2015 European Games, did not qualify for the final. “First of all, I want to ask forgiveness from those who believed in me. I put my faith, energy, desire. Unfortunately, today I did not manage to make my old dream come true. we will finish this hunt successfully, "Mosin said.

“The performance in clay pigeon shooting showed that there are problems, we have questions. It's hard to say why this happened. Let's return to the analysis of the preparation, let's see where we failed. This is already such a routine part, after the Olympics there will be time to think. A change of generations is underway. The veterans did not show themselves at all, unfortunately, and the young guys got a good school, "said Vladimir Lisin.

There are two types of Olympic shooting: trap shooting and bullet shooting. Depending on the type, the type of weapon from which shots are fired changes. In the past, paper targets were used for games, but now electronic targets are being made. So the results are more accurate. The 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro include different performances: individual, team, mixed.

Shooting Games Participants

390 shooters will take part in the shooting competition. Among them there are 231 men, 159 women. 15 disciplines are planned, in each of which the winners will receive awards. One country can field 30 players, two in each discipline.

Participants of the Summer Olympic Shooting Games have passed the qualifying tournament. A comprehensive selection made it possible to choose the best athletes in shooting, who will represent their country in the competition. In order to select the participants, it was necessary to use the world ratings of athletes-shooters.

The qualification of the competition meant that an applicant for participation in the Olympics would fulfill the relevant standards.

Since the Olympics are organized by Brazil, it gets nine places in shooting sports.

General disciplines in the program:

Air rifle, 10 meters;
Rifle in three positions, 50 meters;
Pneumatic pistol, 10 meters;
Ladder.

Men's competitions:

High-speed pistol, 25 meters;
Pistol, 50 meters;
Double ladder;
Round stand;
Rifle lying, 50 meters.

Women's competitions:

Pistol, 25 meters;
Skete.

Shooting competition calendar

August 6. For women, qualification and final in air rifle, for men - for air pistol.
August 7. Women will complete the 10m trench stand and air pistol competition. Men will qualify for the trench stand.
8 August. For men, the finals of the trench stand and air rifle at 10 m will be held.
August 9. Sports pistol, 25 m, women's competition.
August 10. Men, 50m free pistol, double shooting.
11th August. Women's small bore rifle competition.
12th of August. Small-bore rifle for men, stand for women.
August 13. Round stand and pistol for men.
August 13. Small bore rifle, men's competition.

Competition venue: National Shooting Center in Deodoro. Shooting sport is a fascinating and vivid sight. To make it more interesting, a technology has been added that emits a cloud of colored smoke when it hits the target.

This is the first Summer Olympics to use the new rules for finals. After each round of shooting, the competitor with the least points is eliminated.

The first shooting competitions were included in the Olympic program back in 1896, but later they were excluded from it for several decades. For the first time, women competed in shooting competitions in Mexico City, they competed alongside men. But later the disciplines were divided into male and female. This state of affairs continues to this day.