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Nino Salukvadze Personal information Born February 1, 1969 Medal recordWomen's Shooting Olympic Games Competitor for Soviet Union
Gold 1988 Seoul 25 m Pistol Silver 1988 Seoul 10 m Air Pistol Nino Salukvadze (Georgian: ნინო სალუქვაძე) (born February 1, 1969 in Tbilisi) is a female Georgian sports shooter. She is a three-time Olympian, winning gold and silver while competing for the Soviet Union in 1988, and won bronze for Georgia in 2008.
At age 19, she won the women's 25-meter sporting pistol competition and placed second in the women's 10-meter air pistol competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
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2008 Summer Olympics
Georgia and Russia were at war when Salukvadze competed in the women's 10-meter air pistol competition of the 2008 Summer Olympics with Russian shooter Natalia Paderina. After Salukvadze won the bronze and Paderina the silver, they shared a kiss on the podium and called on the two governments to end the war.[1]
Olympic results
Event 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 25 metre pistol Gold
591+995th
583+937th
586+91.611th
5798th
580+98.316th
58010 metre air pistol Silver
390+97.910th
3805th
385+99.025th
37610th
382Bronze
386+101.4Records
Current world records held in 25 metre pistol Junior Women Individual 593 Nino Salukvadze (URS)
July 13, 1989 Zagreb (YUG) Georgian , საქართველო
- ^ "Olympic shooters hug as their countries do battle", CNN, August 10, 2008
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Olympic Champions in Women's 25 metre pistol 1984: Linda Thom • 1988: Nino Salukvadze • 1992: Marina Logvinenko • 1996: Li Duihong • 2000: Maria Grozdeva • 2004: Maria Grozdeva • 2008: Chen YingThis biographical article relating to sport shooting is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.