Alexei Petrovich Gushchin

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Alexei Gushchin medal table
Gushchin (center) at the 1960 award ceremony
Gushchin (center) at the 1960 award ceremony

Sport shooting

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Olympic games
gold Rome 1960 Free pistol 50 m
World championships
silver Moscow 1958 Free pistol
gold Moscow 1958 Free pistol (M)
gold Cairo 1962 Free pistol (M)

Alexei Petrovich Guschtschin ( Russian Алексей Петрович Гущин ; born January 5, 1922 in Voronezh Oblast , Russian SFSR ; † December 14, 1986 in Moscow ) was a Soviet sports shooter .

successes

Alexei Gushchin took part in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome in the competition with the Free Pistol , in which he set a new Olympic record with 560 points. He stayed eight points ahead of second-placed Machmud Umarov and Yoshihisa Yoshikawa and became Olympic champion . As early as 1958 he won the silver medal in individual at the World Championships in Moscow with the free pistol and secured the title with the team. He repeated this team success in 1962 in Cairo .

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personal data
SURNAME Gushchin, Alexei Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gushchin, Aleksey Petrovich (English transcription); Гущин, Алексей Петрович (Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet marksman
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Voronezh Oblast , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1986
Place of death Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union