Nguyễn Mạnh Tường (sport shooter)
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| Nationality |
 Vietnam | ||||||||||||
| Born | 15 June 1960 | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) |
10 m air pistol (AP60) 25 m centre fire pistol (CFP) 50 m pistol (FP) | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nguyen Manh Tuong (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Mạnh Tường; born June 15, 1960) is a Vietnamese sport shooter.[1] He won a bronze medal for the men's 25 m centre-fire pistol (CFP) at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, with a score of 586 points.[2][3]
At age forty-four, Nguyen made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he finished forty-first in the men's 10 m air pistol by one point behind Chinese Taipei's Chang Yi Ning, with a score of 568 points.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Nguyen competed for the second time in two pistol shooting events. He scored a total of 572 targets in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air pistol, by three points ahead of Ukraine's Ivan Rybovalov from the final attempt, finishing only in thirty-fourth place.[4] Three days later, Nguyen placed thirty-eighth in his second event, 50 m pistol, by two points ahead of Poland's Wojciech Knapik from the final attempt, with a total score of 543 targets.[5]
References
- ↑ "Nguyen Manh Tuong". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
- ↑ "From the press: Vietnam targeting gold". China Daily. 13 November 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
- ↑ "ISSF Profile – Nguyen Manh Tuong". ISSF. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 10m Air Pistol Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 50m Pistol Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 15 January 2013.