Aleksey Gushchin
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| File:Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Aleksey Gushchin, Makhmud Umarov 1960.jpg Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Aleksey Gushchin and Makhmud Umarov at the 1960 Olympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 January 1922 Aleksandrovka, Voronezh Oblast, Russian SFSR |
| Died | 14 December 1986 (aged 64)[1] Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Pistol shooting |
| Club | DOSAAF, Moscow |
Medal record | |
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Aleksey Petrovich Gushchin (Russian: Алексей Петрович Гущин; 5 January 1922 – 14 December 1986) was a Soviet pistol shooter who won the 50 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics, setting a new Olympic record.[2] During his career he set two world and two European records and won two individual silver medals at the world and European championships. In retirement he worked as a shooting coach and in 1965 wrote a handbook on pistol shooting.[3]
References
- ↑ Aleksey Gushchin's profile at Sport-Strana.ru (in Russian)
- ↑ "Aleksey Gushchin". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ↑ Гущин Алексей Петрович Archived 1 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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Categories:
- 1922 births
- 1986 deaths
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Russian male sport shooters
- Soviet male sport shooters
- Shooters at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic shooters for the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in shooting
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Russian sportsmen