Marat Nyýazow

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Marat Nyýazow medal table

Sport shooting

Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union
Olympic games
silver Rome 1960 KK three position fight
World championships
silver Moscow 1958 KK three position fight
silver Moscow 1958 KK kneeling 50 m
gold Moscow 1958 FG three position fight 300 m (M)
gold Moscow 1958 KK three position fight (M)
bronze Moscow 1958 KK lying 50 m (M)
gold Moscow 1958 KK standing 50 m (M)
gold Moscow 1958 KK kneeling 50 m (M)
gold Moscow 1958 KK lying 50 + 100 m (M)
silver Cairo 1962 KK three position fight
silver Cairo 1962 KK kneeling 50 m
gold Cairo 1962 KK three position fight (M)
gold Cairo 1962 KK kneeling 50 m (M)
bronze Wiesbaden 1966 FG lying 300 m
silver Wiesbaden 1966 KK three position fight
silver Wiesbaden 1966 KK kneeling 50 m
silver Wiesbaden 1966 FG three position fight 300 m (M)
silver Wiesbaden 1966 KK three position fight (M)
bronze Wiesbaden 1966 KK lying 50 m (M)
silver Wiesbaden 1966 KK standing 50 m (M)
silver Wiesbaden 1966 KK kneeling 50 m (M)

Marat Ataýeviç Nyýazow (born September 28, 1933 in Ashgabat , Turkmen SSR , † April 8, 2009 ibid) was a Turkmen sport shooter who was active for the Soviet Union .

successes

Marat Nyýazow took part with the small bore rifle at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome in two disciplines. In the horizontal position, he finished ninth with 585 points. In the three-position battle he scored 1145 points, so that he won the silver medal behind Wiktor Schamburkin and in front of Klaus Zähringer . He was the first Turkmen, albeit under the Soviet flag, to win an Olympic medal.

At three world championships Nyýazow secured a total of 20 medals and was seven times world champion, always with the team. In 1958 in Moscow he was runner-up in the individual competitions with the small caliber in the three-position fight and in the kneeling position, in the team competitions he won the title in the three-position fight with the free rifle and with the small-bore fight in the three-position fight, in the standing position, in the prone position and in the lying stop over two distances. In the prone stop with the small bore, he and the team took third place. In 1962 in Cairo he was again second in the individual in the three-position fight and in the kneeling attack with the small caliber, while he won the gold medal in the respective team competition. Nyýazow was runner-up six times at the 1966 World Championships in Wiesbaden : again in the individual competitions in the three-position fight and in the kneeling position with the small bore and in the team competitions with the small bore in the kneeling position, in the standing position and in the three-position fight and with the free rifle in the three-position fight. In the individual of the horizontal attack with the free rifle, he took third place as well as with the small caliber in the team competition of the horizontal attack. Three times Nyýazow was European champion in team competitions, while he won bronze twice in individual competitions. Between 1957 and 1964 he won nine individual Soviet championship titles.

After his active career, he worked as a shooting sports coach in Ashgabat .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Marat Niyazov. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 8, 2019 .
  2. ^ Shooting at the 1960 Roma Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 8, 2019 .
  3. Marat IYAZOV. In: issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation , accessed November 8, 2019 .