Rajmond Debevec
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Citizenship | Slovenian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Postojna, SFR Yugoslavia | 29 March 1963||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Slovenia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 10m air rifle, 50m rifle three positions, 50m rifle prone, 300m rifle prone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SD Olimpija Ljubljana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Alojz Mikolič | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rajmond Debevec (born 29 March 1963) is a Slovenian shooter. He has won three Olympic and ten World Championship medals in shooting. He formerly held the world record in the 50 meter rifle 3 positions event.
Career
Debevec started shooting in 1971 and became a member of the Yugoslavian junior national team in 1979. Debevec joined the Military Sport Squad of the Slovenian Army in 1991[2] and holds the rank of Warrant Officer.[3]
Olympic Games
He won his first medal in 1980 by participating in the Junior European Championships. He represented Yugoslavia at the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1988, and Slovenia in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012. He won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he competed in the event 50 metre rifle three positions.
His appearance at eight Olympic Games ties him for fourth-most all time, and are the most ever by a Slovenian or Yugoslavian athlete. Latvian shooter Afanasijs Kuzmins is the only shooter with more Olympic appearances than Debevec; Kuzmins competed in his ninth games at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where Debevec competed for the eighth time.
World Cup and other competitions
Debevec formerly held the world record for 50m rifle three position with 1186 points, which he set in Munich at the World Cup Final in 1992. He also held the Olympic record (1177 points) for the same event, which he set during his gold medal-winning performance at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
He has won two world military championships in 300m three positions in 2006 and 300m rapid fire rifle in 2005 and 2008.[4] He has also competed in World Cup events for crossbow, air rifle, small-bore rifle, and big bore rifle.
Olympic results
Event | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 |
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50 metre rifle three positions | 20th 1140 |
— | 6th 1167+95.6 |
9th 1166 |
![]() 1177+98.1 |
4th 1166+96.6 |
![]() 1176+95.7 |
27th 1161 |
50 metre rifle prone | — | — | 18th 594 |
9th 596 |
19th 593 |
9th 594 |
21st 592 |
![]() 596+105.0 |
10 metre air rifle | 12th 580 |
25th 585 |
9th 589 |
6th 591+101.1 |
9th 591 |
29th 589 |
31st 589 |
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See also
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://www.rajmond-debevec.110mb.com/rdeng.html
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 June 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://www.cism-milsport.org/eng/003_SPORTS/018_shooting/results.asp
External links
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- 1963 births
- Living people
- People from Postojna
- Slovenian male sport shooters
- ISSF rifle shooters
- Shooters at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic shooters of Yugoslavia
- Olympic shooters of Slovenia
- Olympic gold medalists for Slovenia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Slovenia
- World record holders in shooting
- Olympic medalists in shooting
- Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2015 European Games
- European Games competitors for Slovenia
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Slovenia
- Mediterranean Games medalists in shooting
- Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
- Shooters at the 2019 European Games