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Toshikazu Yamashita

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Nationality
  
Japan

Weight
  
70 kg

Height
  
1.7 m

Name
  
Toshikazu Yamashita

Sport
  
Shooting


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Born
  
21 February 1977 (age 47) (
1977-02-21
)
Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan

Event(s)
  
10 m air rifle (AR40) 50 m rifle prone (FR60PR) 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)

Club
  
Japan Self Defense Forces

Toshikazu Yamashita (山下 敏和, Yamashita Toshikazu, born February 21, 1977 in Komatsushima, Tokushima) is a Japanese sport shooter. Yamashita represented Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for all three rifle shooting events.

In his first event, 10 m air rifle, Yamashita was able to hit a total of 590 points within six attempts, finishing twenty-eighth in the qualifying rounds. Few days later, he placed eighteenth in the 50 m rifle prone, by one target behind Belarus' Petr Litvinchuk from the final attempt, with a total score of 593 points. In his third and last event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, Yamashita was able to shoot 399 targets in a prone position, 382 in standing, and 386 in kneeling, for a total score of 1,167 points, finishing only in sixteenth place.

References

Toshikazu Yamashita Wikipedia