Tomáš Caknakis

Tomáš Caknakis
Personal information
Full name Tomáš Caknakis
Nationality  Czech Republic
Born (1986-08-15) 15 August 1986
Krnov, Czechoslovakia
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Weight 64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m running target (10RT)
50 m running target (50RT)
Club SSK Krnov[1]
Coached by Ján Kermiet[1]

Tomáš Caknakis (born August 15, 1986 in Krnov) is a Czech sport shooter.[2] He has been selected to compete for the Czech Republic in running target shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has won a total of fifteen medals under the junior category in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series, the World Championships, and the European Championships.[1] Caknakis trains under the tutelage of 1988 Olympic marksman Ján Kermiet for the national running target team, while shooting in his native Krnov.[1][3]

Caknakis was among the youngest athletes (aged 17) to be selected for the Czech team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, competing in the men's 10 m running target.[3] He managed to get a minimum qualifying standard of 580 to join with fellow marksman and 1996 Olympic bronze medalist Miroslav Januš and gain an Olympic berth for the Czech Republic, following a top five finish on his senior debut at the ISSF World Cup meet a year earlier in Munich, Germany.[4][5] Upon entering the Games as a possible Olympic medal prospect, Caknakis had attained a perfect score of 100 on the third run to pull off a steady aim in the slow-target portion with 284 points. He scored a modest 276 in the fast-moving round, but could not improve much better at the very end of the qualifying stage, falling to a distant seventeenth in a 19-shooter field with a total score of 560 points, just eighteen points adrift of the Olympic final cutoff.[6][7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "ISSF Profile – Tomáš Caknakis". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Tomáš Caknakis". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Naděje regionu na LOH: střelec Tomáš Caknakis" [Shooter Tomáš Caknakis sought hopes for the Czech team] (in Czech). Czech Radio. 10 August 2004. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "Do Atén pojedou střelci, kteří získali místo" [Shooters who have earned berths will go to Athens] (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 21 June 2004. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Shooting: Men's 10m Running Target Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Porouchala se mi hlava, říká Januš" ["I broke myself to tears", according to Janus] (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
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