Yuriy Yurkov

Yuriy Yurkov

Personal information
Nationality	Kazakhstan
Born	(1983-03-11) 11 March 1983 Shymkent, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport	Shooting
Event(s)	10 m air rifle (AR40) 50 m rifle prone (FR60PR) 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)
Club	Dynamo Shymkent
Medal record Men's shooting Representing Kazakhstan Asian Championships 2023 Changwon 50 m rifle prone team 2015 Kuwait City 50 m rifle 3 positions team 2025 Shymkent 50 m rifle prone team Asian Airgun Championships 2021 Shymkent 10 m air rifle team

Yuriy Yurkov (Kazakh: Юрий Юрков; 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.

External links

• NBC 2008 Olympics profile