Rajmond Debevec

Olympic medalist
Rajmond Debevec
Medal record
Men's shooting
Competitor for Slovenia
Gold	2000 Sydney	50 m rifle 3 pos
Bronze	2008 Beijing	50 m rifle 3 pos

Rajmond Debevec was born in Postojna, Slovenia, a part of the former Yugoslavia, on March 29, 1963. He became involved in shooting sports in 1971 and became a member of Junior national team in 1979. He won his first medal in 1980 by participating in Junior European Championship with air rifle. He represented Yugoslavia at the Olympic Games in 1984 & 1988 and Slovenia in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 & 2008. Among numerous medals and awards he has won, the most important is the 1st place at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he competed in the event 50 metre rifle three positions. He holds all world and Olympic records in this event.

He is only the fifth shooter to ever compete at seven Olympic Games, the others being Latvian Afanasijs Kuzmins, Belgian François Lafortune, Jr, Swede Ragnar Skanåker, and Peruvian Francisco Boza. Of these, only Kuzmins, who also competed with Debevec at the 2008 Olympics, has appeared at eight games. In 2000 he became the first Slovenian to compete at five Olympics; he has since been joined by biathlete/cross country skier Sašo Grajf in 2002, biathlete Janez Ožbolt in 2006 and rower Iztok Čop in 2008.

He joined the Military Sport Squad of Slovenian Army in 1991 and holds the rank of Warrant Officer. He has won two world military championships in 300m Three Positions in 2006 and 300m Rapid Fire Rifle in 2005 and 2008.

Competition highlights:

• Olympic gold 3-p, Sydney 2000 with Olympic record 1177 p.(still valid)
• World record 3-p, Munich WCF 1992, 1186 p. (still valid)
• 4× world cup final winner in 3-p (1992,1993,2003,2006)
• 27× world cup winner (14× in 3-p, 13× air rifle)
• multiple WCh medalist in all events from crossbow, air rifle, 50m s-b rifle, to 300m big bore rifle

Olympic results

Event	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008
50 metre rifle three positions	—	6th 1167+95.6	9th 1166	1 ! Gold 1177+98.1	4th 1166+96.6	3 ! Bronze 1176+95.7
50 metre rifle prone	—	18th 594	9th 596	19th 593	9th 594	21st 592
10 metre air rifle	25th 585	9th 589	6th 591+101.1	9th 591	29th 589	31st 589

Records

Current world records held in 50 metre rifle three positions
Men	Qualification	1186	Rajmond Debevec (SLO)	August 29, 1992	Munich (GER)
	Final	1287.9	Rajmond Debevec (SLO) (1186+101.9)	August 29, 1992	Munich (GER)

See also

• List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games

External links

• Debevec's home page
• Sports-Reference Profile