Igor Alexandrovich Sokolov

Igor Sokolov
Full name	Igor Alexandrovich Sokolov
nation	Soviet Union → Russia
birthday	2nd January 1958
place of birth	Ufa ,  Soviet Union
size	181 cm
Weight	90 kg
Career
discipline	Sport shooting
society	Burewestnik Ufa
National squad	since 1978
status	resigned
End of career	1988
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 4 × 2 × 0 × EM medals 2 × 0 × 0 × soviet medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×

Igor Alexandrowitsch Sokolow ( Russian Игорь Александрович Соколов ; born January 2, 1958 in Ufa , Russian SFSR , USSR ) is a Soviet- Russian sports shooter . In 1980 he won the Olympic gold medal in shooting at the running target .

Athletic career

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , Sokolow and Thomas Pfeffer from the GDR achieved a new world record with 589 rings, Sokolow received the Olympic gold medal because of the better result in the last round. In 1981 Sokolow won the European Championships in front of Pfeffer, Pfeffer won the 1981 World Championships in Buenos Aires, while Sokolow was only fourth.

Top performances

space	Championships	discipline	Total	Records
1	Olympia 1980 in Moscow	50 m running disc	589
1	1983 World Cup in Edmonton	50 m running disc	591
1	1982 World Cup in Caracas	10 m running disc	378
2	1983 World Cup in Edmonton	10 m running disc	385
2	World Cup 1979 in Linz	50 m running disc mix	386
4th	World Cup 1981 in Mala	50 m running disc	586
1	European Championship 1984 in Budapest	10 m running disc	380
1	EM 1981 in Miskolc	50 m running disc	595
1	European Championship 1979 in Graz	10 m running disc	337
1	EM 1978 in Suhl	50 m running disc	576
2	EM 1982 in The Hague	10 m running disc	383
2	European Championship 1981 in Athens	10 m running disc	386
2	European Championship 1979 in Lvov	50 m running disc	576
5	EM 1985 in Osijek	50 m running disc mix	392

Awards

• 1980: Honored Master of Sports of the USSR
• 1980: Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union
• 1985: Order of Friendship between Nations
• 1995: Honored Trainer of Sports of Russia

literature

• Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .

Web links

• Igor Sokolow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Igor Sokolow in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "1980 Summer Olympics - Moscow, Soviet Union - Shooting" ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. databaseOlympics.com (English)  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Igor Sokolow on infosport.ru (Russian)