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Leadbelly
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Age ????

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What are the different age groups and is there a maximum age for Olympic shooters?
This question is to include regular shooters and Paralympic shooters.
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No, it is an open competition. Perhaps interestingly there have been a number of shooters that have successfully competed at the highest level into their 70s.
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And Kim Rhode was only 17 when she won her first Olympic medal.
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And Konstantin Lukaschik was only 16 when he won the FP gold at the 1992 OG in Barcelona..........................
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renzo wrote:And Konstantin Lukaschik was only 16 when he won the FP gold at the 1992 OG in Barcelona..........................
The 1992 Olympic Free Pistol competition is a good illustration of age ranges in general:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shootin ... tre_pistol

16-58 in the medals.
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john bickar wrote:
renzo wrote:And Konstantin Lukaschik was only 16 when he won the FP gold at the 1992 OG in Barcelona..........................
The 1992 Olympic Free Pistol competition is a good illustration of age ranges in general:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shootin ... tre_pistol

16-58 in the medals.
And only because you´re counting only medals, otherwise the stretch would be greater if you´d be taking into account the eight finalists including Darius Young!!!
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renzo wrote:
john bickar wrote:
renzo wrote:And Konstantin Lukaschik was only 16 when he won the FP gold at the 1992 OG in Barcelona..........................
The 1992 Olympic Free Pistol competition is a good illustration of age ranges in general:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shootin ... tre_pistol

16-58 in the medals.
And only because you´re counting only medals, otherwise the stretch would be greater if you´d be taking into account the eight finalists including Darius Young!!!
Ragnar was older than Doc; Wikipedia told me so ;)
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That's one reason I love shooting. It's a true lifetime sport, one of the few where a 70 year old competitor can go against an opponent a third his age...and win.
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john bickar wrote:

Ragnar was older than Doc; Wikipedia told me so ;)
I would have bet on the opposite..........................
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Yes , I competed against Ragnar Skanaker in about 1985 at Dallas Pistol Club. I still have his first 22 Bullseye target hanging in my garage.
( a 100 / 10 X ) We were shooting a 1800 and he had never fired a 1911 45 ACP. It did not matter to him, line the sights and trigger control.
He won both the 22 and 45 matches. Ragnar is 11 years older than me. I am 72 now.
I should have ask " Is there a Maximum Age? ".
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john bickar wrote: Ragnar was older than Doc
He probably still is!
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Leadbelly wrote:Yes , I competed against Ragnar Skanaker in about 1985 ....
I competed against Ragnar myself, in an AP competition in Europe that same year. Ragnar won, if memory serves me right, his score was 586. He beat Uwe Potteck (!). That was in Ragnars heydays. He used a Senfter CO2 pistol back then. He let me fire some shosts with that gun after the matches.
https://get.google.com/albumarchive/110 ... zWM3nyYHde

Ragnar is still firing respectable scores, - he is 83 years old now.
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