On the 25th, the third day of the Tokyo Olympics, the athletes of the shooting pistol event who played the ninth Olympic participation, which is the largest number of women in history, attracted attention.
This player is Georgia's 52-year-old Nino Sarkubuze.
At the age of 19, he participated in the 1988 Seoul Olympics for the first time as a Soviet representative at the time, winning gold and silver medals in two events, respectively.
After that, at the 2008 Beijing tournament, he participated in an armed clash between his native Georgia and Russia, won a bronze medal, and teamed up with a Russian player who won a silver medal to appeal the importance of peace and became a worldwide topic. I did.
In this tournament, which was the 9th Olympic Games in history, Sarkubuze participated in the air pistol qualifying on the 25th and finished 31st with 567 points out of 600 points in total when he shot 60 targets 10 meters away. , I couldn't advance to the final by the top 8 players.
Sarkubuze will also be competing in the women's 25-meter pistol on the 29th of this month, but in an interview published on the IOC = International Olympic Committee website, he said that this tournament will be the last Olympics. ..
The most men's Olympic athletes are Canadian athletes who have participated in 10 competitions from Munich in 1972 to London in 2012 in equestrian.