- Mikhail Nestruyev
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Olympic medalist
Mikhail NestruyevMedal record Competitor for Russia
Men's shooting Gold 2004 Athens 50 m pistol Silver 2004 Athens 10 m air pistol Mikhail Valeryevich Nestruyev (Russian: Михаил Валерьевич Неструев, born October 28, 1968 in Moscow) is a pistol shooter from Moscow, Russia. He is an all-round shooter, having achieved great successes in all five ISSF pistol events. He holds the 25 metre center-fire pistol world record of 594. He also shares the European record in 25 metre standard pistol with Ragnar Skanåker and Vladas Turla, and has performed over 580 at several occasions.
Nestruyev has also excelled in the Olympic events. In the 2004 Olympics he lost a close final to Wang Yifu in 10 metre air pistol, but a few days later took the gold in the 50 metre pistol event. He also won the ISSF World Shooting Championships in 1998 (25 metre standard pistol) and 2002 (10 metre air pistol), and has many other medals from World and European Championships in all four events, and has won four consecutive ISSF World Cup Finals in Air Pistol (2002-2005).
Starting late as a 25 metre rapid fire pistol shooter, Nestruyev qualified for the Russian team at the 2009 European Championships, where he won the silver medal.
Holding the rank of lieutenant colonel, Nestruyev has also competed successfully for several years in international military competitions.
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Olympic results
Event 2000 2004 2008 50 metre pistol — Gold
565+98.323rd
55210 metre air pistol 4th
583+99.3Silver
591+98.828th
575Records
Current world records held in 25 metre center-fire pistol Men (ISSF) Individual 594 Mikhail Nestruyev (RUS)
Aleksey Klimov (RUS)
July 17, 2007
July 25, 2009Granada (ESP)
Osijek (CRO)Current world records held in 10 metre air pistol Men Teams 1759 Russia (Isakov, Nestruyev, Yekimov)
March 16, 2007 Deauville (FRA) Gallery
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Olympic champions in men's 50 metre pistol 1896: Sumner Paine • 1900: Karl Röderer • 1908: Paul Van Asbroeck • 1912: Alfred Lane • 1920: Karl Frederick • 1936: Torsten Ullman • 1948: Edwin Vásquez • 1952: Huelet Benner • 1956: Pentti Linnosvuo • 1960: Aleksey Gushchin • 1964: Väinö Markkanen • 1968: Grigory Kosykh • 1972: Ragnar Skanåker • 1976: Uwe Potteck • 1980: Aleksandr Melentyev • 1984: Xu Haifeng • 1988: Sorin Babii • 1992: Kanstantsin Lukashyk • 1996: Boris Kokorev • 2000: Tanyu Kiryakov • 2004: Mikhail Nestruyev • 2008: Jin Jong-ohThis biographical article relating to sport shooting is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.