Rajmond Debevec

Rajmond Debevec

Rajmond Debevec
Personal information
Full name	Rajmond Debevec
Citizenship	Slovenian
Born	March 29, 1963 Postojna, SFR Yugoslavia
Residence	Škofljica, Slovenia[1]
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	168 lb (76 kg)
Sport
Country	Slovenia
Sport	Shooting
Event(s)	10m air rifle, 50m rifle three positions, 50m rifle prone, 300m rifle prone
Club	SD Olimpija Ljubljana
Coached by	Alojz Mikolič
Medal record Men's Shooting Olympic Games Representing  Slovenia 2000 Sydney 50 m rifle 3 pos 2008 Beijing 50 m rifle 3 pos 2012 London 50 m rifle prone World Championships Representing  Yugoslavia 1990 Moscow 10 m air rifle Representing  Slovenia 2002 Lahti 300 m rifle 3 pos 2002 Lahti 50 m rifle prone 1998 Barcelona 50 m rifle 3 pos 2006 Zagreb 300 m rifle prone

Rajmond Debevec (born March 29, 1963 in Postojna, Yugoslavia) is a Slovenian shooter. He has won three Olympic and five World Championship medals in shooting. He also holds the world record for the 50 metre rifle three positions event.

Career

Debevec started shooting in 1971 and became a member of the Yugoslavian junior national team in 1979. Debevec joined the Military Sport Squad of the Slovenian Army in 1991^[2] and holds the rank of Warrant Officer.^[3]

Olympic Games

He won his first medal in 1980 by participating in the Junior European Championships. He represented Yugoslavia at the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1988, and Slovenia in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012. He won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he competed in the event 50 metre rifle three positions.

His appearance at eight Olympic Games ties him for fourth-most all time, and are the most ever by a Slovenian or Yugoslavian athlete. Latvian shooter Afanasijs Kuzmins is the only shooter with more Olympic appearances than Debevec; Kuzmins competed in his ninth games at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where Debevec competed for the eighth time.

World Cup and other competitions

Debevec holds the world record for 50m rifle three position with 1186 points, which he set in Munich at the World Cup Final in 1992. He also holds the Olympic record (1177 points) for the same event, which he set during his gold medal-winning performance at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

He has won two world military championships in 300m three positions in 2006 and 300m rapid fire rifle in 2005 and 2008.^[4] He has also competed in World Cup events for crossbow, air rifle, small-bore rifle, and big bore rifle.

Olympic results

Event	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012
50 metre rifle three positions	20th 1140	—	6th 1167+95.6	9th 1166	Gold 1177+98.1	4th 1166+96.6	Bronze 1176+95.7	27th 1161
50 metre rifle prone	—	—	18th 594	9th 596	19th 593	9th 594	21st 592	Bronze 596+105.0
10 metre air rifle	12th 580	25th 585	9th 589	6th 591+101.1	9th 591	29th 589	31st 589	—

Records

Current world records held in 50 metre rifle three positions
Men	Qualification	1186	Nazar Louginets (RUS)	June 12, 2014	Munich (GER)
	Final	1287.9	Rajmond Debevec (SLO) (1186+101.9)	August 29, 1992	Munich (GER)

See also

• List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games

References

1. http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=634/bio/index.html
2. http://www.rajmond-debevec.110mb.com/rdeng.html
3. http://armedforcessports.defense.gov/zsho.html
4. http://www.cism-milsport.org/eng/003_SPORTS/018_shooting/results.asp

External links

• Debevec's home page
• Sports-Reference Profile