About Yuriy Yurkov
Born 1983. Yuriy Yurkov is a Kazakh sport shooter.
Yuriy Yurkov (; born March 11, 1983, in Shymkent) is a Kazakhstani sport shooter. 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. 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. 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.
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Who is Yuriy Yurkov?
Olympic rifle shooter
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Yuriy Yurkov was born on 11 March 1983 in Shymkent.
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Yuriy Yurkov is a sport shooter.
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Yuriy Yurkov is Kazakh.
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