Alyona Aksyonova
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| Full name | Alyona Aksyonova | ||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Uzbekistan | ||||||||||||
| Born |
13 November 1979 Andijan, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) |
10 m air rifle (AR40) 50 m rifle prone (STR60PR) 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20) | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alyona Aksyonova (Russian: Алёна Аксёнова; born November 13, 1979 in Andijan) is an Uzbek sport shooter.[1] She won a bronze medal in small-bore rifle prone at the 2000 Asian Championships in Langkawi, Malaysia, and was selected to compete for Uzbekistan in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004).[2]
Akysonova's Olympic debut came as a 21-year-old at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, she finished in a massive eight-way tie for twentieth place in the 10 m air rifle with a qualifying score of 391, just three points below the Olympic final cutoff.[3][4] Akysonova also competed in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, but plummeted to a thirtieth-place tie with Cuba's Eunice Caballero and fellow markswoman Yuliya Shakhova at 567 points (194 in prone, 185 in standing, and 188 in the kneeling series) in the prelims.[5]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Aksyonova qualified as a lone markswoman for her second Uzbek team in rifle shooting. She managed to get a minimum qualifying standard of a near-perfect 399 to secure an Olympic berth for Uzbekistan in air rifle, following her seventh-place finish at the Asian Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia few months earlier.[2][6] In the 10 m air rifle, held on the first day of the Games, Akysonova fired an ill-fated 384 out of a possible 400 to finish in a distant fortieth out of forty-four shooters.[7] Nearly a week later, in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, Aksyonova marked 193 in prone, a substandard 175 in standing, and 190 in the kneeling series to accumulate a total score of 562 points in the qualifying round, closing her out of the final to twenty-ninth place.[8]
References
- ↑ "Alyona Aksyonova". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- 1 2 "ISSF Profile – Alyona Aksyonova". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ↑ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Women's 10m Air Rifle" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 78–80. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
- ↑ "Nancy Johnson wins first gold of Sydney Games". Canoe.ca. 16 September 2000. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
- ↑ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 81–86. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
- ↑ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ↑ "Shooting: Women's 10m Air Rifle Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ "Shooting: Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.