Vyacheslav Skoromnov
Qatari sport shooter
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Vyacheslav Skoromnov (Russian: Вячеслав Скоромнов; born 2 March 1974 in Andijan) is an Uzbek-born Qatari sport shooter.[2] He has been selected to compete for his native Uzbekistan in rifle shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has achieved a total of two medals, a gold and a silver, and numerous top ten finishes in a major international competition, spanning the Asian Games (1998 to 2014), and the Asian Championships.[1][3] Currently living in Doha, Qatar since 2010, Skoromnov holds his dual citizenship to compete internationally in shooting.[3][4]
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| Full name | Vyacheslav Skoromnov | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Uzbekistan Qatar | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 March 1974 | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||
Events | 10 m air rifle (AR60) 50 m rifle prone (FR60PR) 50 m rifle 3 positions (FR3X40) | |||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Aleksandr Seffarov[1] | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Skoromnov qualified for his native Uzbek squad in rifle shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Having registered a minimum qualifying score of 597, he chased China's eventual Olympic champion Jia Zhanbo through a single-point lead to take the gold medal and fill in the Olympic quota place for Uzbekistan at the Asian Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia few months earlier.[5][6] Skoromnov started off with the 10 m air rifle, where he shot a steady 592 out of a possible 600 to tie for eighteenth with three other shooters.[7] Four days later, Skoromnov came up with an ill-fated aim to get 591 points in the qualifying round of his signature event, the 50 m rifle prone, that saw him toppling down the leaderboard to a twenty-fourth in a 46-shooter field.[8] In his third and last event, the 50 m rifle 3 positions, Skoromnov marked a scintillating 394 in prone, 380 in standing, and 387 in kneeling to collect a total score of 1161 points and tie for twelfth place with two-time Olympian Timothy Lowndes of Australia and Olympic silver medalist Christian Lusch of Germany, having been close to an Olympic final by just three points.[9]