Abdullah Al-Rashidi

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Abdullah Al-Rashidi medal table

Sport shooting

KuwaitKuwait Kuwait Independent Olympian
OlympiaIndependent Olympian 
Olympic games
bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 Skeet
World championships
bronze Montecatini Terme 1989 Double trap (M)
gold Nicosia 1995 Skeet
gold Lima 1997 Skeet
gold Barcelona 1998 Skeet
bronze Tampere 1999 Skeet (M)
bronze Belgrade 2011 Skeet
Asian Games
bronze Hiroshima 1994 Skeet (M)
silver Bangkok 1998 Skeet
gold Bangkok 1998 Skeet (M)
silver Doha 2006 Skeet (M)
gold Guangzhou 2010 Skeet
silver Guangzhou 2010 Skeet (M)
gold Incheon 2014 Skeet
silver Incheon 2014 Skeet (M)

Abdullah Al-Rashidi ( Arabic عبد الله الراشدي, DMG ʿAbd Allāh ar-Rāšidī ; * August 21, 1963 in Kuwait City ) is a Kuwaiti marksman .

successes

Abdullah Al-Rashidi participated in six Olympic Games in the skeet . In 1996 he finished 42nd in Atlanta , four years later he improved to 14th. The 2004 Games he finished in Athens in eighth place, the 2008 Games in Beijing he finished seventh after missing the final again. In 2012 he did not get past 21st place in London . At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he started as an Independent Olympian due to the suspension of the Kuwaiti Olympic Committee , he scored 123 points and qualified first for the semifinals. With 14 hits, he had to jump off, in which he narrowly prevailed and entered the duel for bronze. In this he got 16 hits, while Mykola Milchev had 14 hits behind, so that Al-Rashidi won the bronze medal.

At the 1989 World Championships in Montecatini Terme , he won bronze with the team in a double trap. In 1995 in Nicosia , 1997 in Lima and 1998 in Barcelona he was world champion in skeet singles. He also secured bronze in Belgrade in 2011 . With the Skeet team, he finished third in 1999 in Tampere . At the continental level, Al-Rashidi was also very successful: in 1995, 1999, 2004, 2007, 2009 and 2012 he was Asian champion in skeet and came second four more times. At the Asian Games , he won the silver medal in singles in Bangkok in 1998 , before winning gold in both Guangzhou in 2010 and Incheon in 2014 . In the team competition in 1994 in Hiroshima he won his first medal at the Asian Games with bronze. Just four years later he won the gold medal with the team. In 2006 in Doha , 2010 in Guangzhou and 2014 in Incheon, he took second place in the team competition.

Al-Rashidi is married and has four children. His son Talal Al-Rashidi , who Al-Rashidi looks after as a trainer, is also a marksman and has already been team world champion in the trap. In addition to sports shooting, Al-Rashidi works as a professional falconer .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Abdullah Al-Rashidi. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Shooting at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games: Men's Skeet Qualification. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Shooting at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games: Men's Skeet Semi-Finals. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Shooting at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games: Men's Skeet Final. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c Abdullah ALRASHIDI. In: issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation , accessed November 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Talal ALRASHIDI. In: issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation , accessed November 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Skeet Champ Alrashidi (KUW): 49 years, 3 jobs, still winning an planning big. In: issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation , June 16, 2013, accessed November 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Al-Rashidi, Abdullah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES عبد الله الراشدي (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kuwaiti marksman
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuwait City , Kuwait