Alexander Melentyev
Template:Short description Template:Infobox sportsperson Alexander Remmovich Melentyev (Template:Langx; 27 June 1954 – 16 February 2015) was a Soviet competitive sport shooter who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. The world record he set in 1980 remained unbeaten for 34 years. He was the first Olympic gold medalist from Kyrgyzstan.[1]
Bio
Melentyev was born in the Russian city of Penza but grew up in the Kyrgyz SSR.[1]
At the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, Melentyev achieved a world record result of 581 (from 600, without final) in the 50 m pistol event in setting a new world and a new Olympic record. The world record was surpassed by Jin Jong-oh at the 2014 World Championships; with his score of 581 Melentyev remains the current Olympic record holder.
| Current Olympic record held in 50 m Pistol | ||||||||
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| Current world record held in 25 m Standard Pistol | ||||||||
| Men | Teams | 1725 | Script error: No such module "flag". (Kuzmins, Melentyev, Turla) Script error: No such module "flag". (Kuzmins, Basinski, Pyzhianov) |
September 10, 1985 September 8, 1986 |
Osijek Template:Cc3 Suhl Template:Cc3 |
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- 1954 births
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- Soviet male sport shooters
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- Kyrgyzstani male sport shooters
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- Olympic shooters for the Soviet Union
- Shooters at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
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- Shooters at the 1994 Asian Games
- Sportspeople from Penza
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- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games competitors for Kyrgyzstan
- 20th-century Russian sportsmen