Marina Belikova

Marina Belikova
Personal information
Full name Marina Viktorovna Belikova
Nationality  Russia
Born (1985-11-24) 24 November 1985
Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) Skeet
Club Russian Shooting Union[1]
Coached by Oleg Tishin[2]

Marina Viktorovna Belikova (Russian: Марина Викторовна Беликова; born November 24, 1985 in Rostov-on-Don) is a Russian sport shooter.[2][3] She won a silver medal in the women's skeet at the 2011 European Shooting Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, accumulating a score of 96 targets.[1][4] Belikova is also a member of the Russian Shooting Union, and is coached and trained by Oleg Tishin.[2]

Belikova represented Russia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in the women's skeet. She had finished on exactly the same score of 90 targets (69 in the preliminary rounds and 21 in the final) as Slovakia's Danka Barteková, but narrowly lost the bronze medal shoot-off by one point for a bonus of three.[5][6][7]

References

  1. 1 2 "ISSF Profile – Marina Belikova". ISSF. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "Marina Belikova". London 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  3. "Marina Belikova". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  4. "Russians grab medal at Belgrade shooting champs". Voice of Russia. 9 August 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  5. "Women's Skeet Qualification". London 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  6. "Women's Skeet Final". London 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  7. "Olympics skeet shooting: Kim Rhode wins to make US history". London 2012 (BBC Sport). 29 July 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.

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