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Sergei Kalinin (sport shooter)

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Sport
  
Shooting

Weight
  
80 kg

Height
  
1.70 m

Role
  
Olympic athlete

Name
  
Sergei Kalinin



Born
  
23 December 1926 (age 97) (
1926-12-23
)
Yaroslavl, Russia

Club
  
Soviet Army, St. Petersburg

Olympic medals
  
Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics - Trap

Sergei Alekseyevich Kalinin (Russian: Сергей Алексеевич Калинин, born 23 December 1926) is a retired Russian sports shooter. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics in the individual trap event and finished in 3rd and 22nd place, respectively. Kalinin was born to a hunter and started shooting aged seven. Between 1943 and 1945 he fought in World War II, and after that started training in sports shooting. He won two world titles with the Soviet team, in 1958 and 1962.

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Sergei Kalinin (sport shooter) Wikipedia