Yuriy Yurkov
From Kazakhstan Encyclopedia
Yuriy Yurkov (Template:Lang-kk; born March 11, 1983 in Shymkent) is a Kazakhstani sport shooter.[1] Yurkov represented Kazakhstan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for all three rifle shooting events.
In his first event, 10 m air rifle, Yurkov was able to hit a total of 586 points within six attempts, finishing forty-second in the qualifying rounds.[2] Few days later, he placed forty-second again this time in the 50 m rifle prone, by one target behind Austria's Christian Planer from the second attempt, with a total score of 588 points.[3] In his third and last event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, Yurkov was able to shoot 395 targets in a prone position, 382 in standing, and 385 in kneeling, for a total score of 1,162 points, finishing only in twenty-seventh place.[4]
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