Yakiv Scheleznjak

Yakiv Schelesnjak medal table
Sport shooting
Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold	Munich 1972	Running target 50 m
World championships
gold	Wiesbaden 1966	Running boar (M)
gold	Melbourne 1973	Running boar (M)
gold	Melbourne 1973	Running boar (M) mixed run
gold	Bern 1974	Running boar (M)
gold	Bern 1974	Running boar (M) mixed run
gold	Munich 1975	Running boar (M)

Yakiv Illitsch Schelesnjak ( Ukrainian Я́ків Іллі́ч Железня́к ; born April 10, 1941 in Odessa , Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Soviet sports shooter .

successes

Jakiw Schelesnjak, who was active for Dynamo Odessa, took part in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in the competition on the running target over 50 m. He scored a total of 569 points, which was a new world record. So he finally took first place and became Olympic champion . At world championships he was world champion six times with the team. In 1966 in Wiesbaden , 1973 in Melbourne , 1974 in Bern and 1975 in Munich, he and the team secured the title in the normal run, as well as in 1973 and 1974 in the mixed run.

Web links

• Jakiw Schelesnjak in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )