Fehaid Al-Deehani

Fehaid Al-Deehani
nation	Kuwait
birthday	October 11, 1966
place of birth	Kuwait
size	178 cm
Weight	95 kg
Career
discipline	Sport shooting
Classes	shotgun
status	unknown
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 2 ×
last change: August 10, 2016

Fehaid Al-Deehani ( Arabic فهيد الديحاني, DMG Fuhaid ad-Dīḥānī ; Born October 11, 1966 in Kuwait City ) is a Kuwaiti sports shooter ( shotgun ). He is the first and so far only medalist in Kuwait at the Olympic Games .

Fehaid Al-Deehani first launched in 1992 in Barcelona at the Olympic Games. In the still Trap competition, he reached 29th place. Four years later in Atlanta he was 20th in the trap and tenth in the double trap competition. In 2000 he reached an Olympic final in a double trap in Sydney for the first time and won the bronze medal with 186 hits behind Richard Faulds and Russell Mark . It was the first ever Olympic medal for Kuwait. At the 2004 Games in Athens , Al-Deehani was his country's flag bearer at the opening ceremony and finished eighth, missing the double trap final by two places. The Games in 2008 in Beijing , he missed, but resumed in 2012 in London at the Olympic Games in part. These began with mishaps for the new flag bearer at the opening ceremony. Due to luggage restrictions, he was unable to take his spare weapon with him. His regular weapon broke in two during the double trap competition. A shooter from Qatar lent him his weapon, but with a foreign weapon he was defeated in the final by the Russian Vasily Mossin , who also hit 185 targets, in the imposition and came fourth. Things went better in the trap competition, in which Al-Deehani finished third behind Giovanni Cernogoraz and Massimo Fabbrizi with 145 goals after defeating Australian Michael Diamond, who also scored 145, in imposition for the bronze medal. It was the second medal in Kuwaiti Olympic history.

At the 1999 World Championships in Tampere , Al-Deehani won the bronze medal, in 2001 he was runner- up in Cairo and won bronze again in Lahti in 2002 . In 2016 he reached the final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and won gold, but not starting for his home country, but as an independent participant , as the Kuwaiti NOK was suspended due to political influence on the sport at that time.

Web links

• Fehaid Al-Deehani in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sports-reference.com
2. ^ Fehaid Al-Deehani's Olympic Journey