Vitaliy Dovgun

Vitaliy Dovgun

Personal information
Full name	Vitaliy Semyonovich Dovgun
Nationality	Kazakhstan
Born	(1971-02-15) 15 February 1971
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Weight	104 kg (229 lb)
Sport
Sport	Shooting
Event(s)	10 m air rifle (AR40) 50 m rifle prone (FR60PR) 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)
Club	Dynamo Almaty
Medal record Men's shooting Representing Kazakhstan Asian Games 2006 Doha 50 m rifle prone team 2006 Doha 50 m rifle 3 positions team 2010 Guangzhou 50 m rifle 3 positions team 2002 Busan 50 m rifle 3 positions team 2002 Busan 50 m rifle prone team

Vitaliy Semyonovich Dovgun (Kazakh: Виталий Семёнович Довгун; born February 15, 1971) is a Kazakhstani sport shooter. At age thirty-eight, Dovgun made his official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in all three rifle shooting events. He is also the husband of four-time Olympian Olga Dovgun, who qualified for the same category at these Olympic games.

In his first event, 10 m air rifle, Dovgun was able to hit a total of 587 points within six attempts, finishing thirty-eighth in the qualifying rounds. Few days later, he placed twentieth in the 50 m rifle prone, by one target ahead of Slovenia's Rajmond Debevec from the second attempt, with a total score of 592 points. In his third and last event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, Yurkov was able to shoot 398 targets in a prone position, 381 in standing, and 379 in kneeling, for a total score of 1,158 points, finishing only in twenty-seventh place.

External links

• NBC 2008 Olympics profile