Personal information | |
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Nationality | Kazakhstan |
Born |
Shymkent, Kazakh SSR |
9 July 1979
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Shooting |
Event(s) | 10 m air pistol (AP40) 50 m pistol (FP) |
Rashid Yunusmetov (Kazakh: Рашид Юнусметов; born July 9, 1979 in Shymkent) is a Kazakhstani sport shooter. Yunusmetov had won a total of five medals at the ISSF World Cup circuit, including gold for the 50 m free pistol (2009 in Beijing, China).
Yunusmetov represented Kazakhstan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in two pistol shooting events. He placed twentieth out of forty-eight shooters in the men's 10 m air pistol, with a total score of 578 points. Three days later, Yunusmetov competed for his second event, 50 m rifle pistol, where he was able to fire 10 shots each in six attempts, for a total score of 555 points, finishing only in seventeenth place.