Alexander Remmowitsch Melentjew

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Alexander Melentjew (1980)

Alexander Melentyev ( Russian Александр Реммович Мелентьев , English Aleksandr Melentyev * 27. June 1954 in Penza , Russian SFSR , USSR ; † 16th February 2015 in Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan ) was a Soviet sports shooter . He was the world record holder in his free pistol discipline .

Alexander Melentjew was the first Olympic champion of the Moscow Games in 1980 and was also the first resident of Kyrgyzstan to become Olympic champion. He was a non-commissioned officer with the border troops of the USSR in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan . Melentjew was only accepted into the Soviet national team a year before the Olympic Games, where he immediately became Soviet champion and also winner of the People's Spartakiad with excellent 576 rings. This made him a favorite for the Olympic Games. In Moscow he withstood the pressure of expectation and was able to win the gold medal with a world record of 581 rings ahead of Harald Vollmar from the GDR with 568 rings. Melentiev's sports equipment was an MC55-1 free pistol .

After the triumph of Moscow , things calmed down around Melentyev. Due to the boycott of the Eastern Bloc countries, he was unable to participate in the 1984 Los Angeles Games . In Seoul in 1988 he was part of the Soviet team again, but only achieved 12th place with a disappointing 558 rings.

Melentyev was no longer able to come anywhere near his own world record. Curiously, Harald Vollmar , who finished second in the Olympics, set the current German record as early as 1979 with the same result, which, however, was not a world record because it was not achieved at a World Cup or the Olympic Games.

His brother Juri (* 1964) also took part in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games for Kyrgyzstan as a marksman.

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  1. ↑ Pistole - German Records, List of the German Rifle Federation ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dsb.de
  2. ↑ Juri Remmowitsch Melentjew in the database of Sports-Reference.com (English)
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SURNAME Melentjew, Alexander Remmowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melentjew, Alexander; Мелентьев, Александр Реммович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet marksman
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Penza , Russian SFSR
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2015
Place of death Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan