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Place of Birth: Novodvinsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia
About Leonid Yekimov
- Leonid Aleksandrovich Yekimov (Russian: ?????? ????????????? ??????; born 13 September 1987) is a Russian sport shooter.
- At the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships, he won the junior competition in 25 metre pistol and finished second in 25 metre standard pistol.
- The following year, although still a junior, he opted to participate in the open class of the European Championships in 10 metre air pistol and helped the Russian team to a gold medal and a new world record, also breaking the junior world record in the qualification round.
- He then proceeded to defeat teammates Mikhail Nestruyev and Vladimir Isakov in the final, to top a Russian triple victory and win his first international senior title.
- He defended this gold medal the next year after a qualification score of 591 points, two points below the world record.Yekimov made his Olympic debut in the air pistol competition in Beijing in 2008, and finished sixth.
- He was also chosen as Sergei Alifirenko's replacement in the rapid fire pistol competition, when Alifirenko, who won gold in Sydney and bronze in Athens, had to withdraw.
- Although not a renowned rapid fire shooter, Yekimov has won a national competition in the event and when attaining his minimum qualification score for the Olympics, he reached a score of 586 in Munich, only five points behind the world record.
- In Beijing, Yekimov was in the lead after the first day but dropped to second after the second stage and finally to fourth after the final.
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