YURKOV Yuriy

Olympic Games

Year	Location	10m Air Rifle	50m Rifle 3 Positions	50m Rifle Prone
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	44	29	25
2008	Beijing, CHN	42	27	42

World Championships

Year	Location	10m Air Rifle	50m Rifle 3 Positions	10m Air Rifle Team X	50m Rifle Prone
2018	Changwon, KOR	81	10	70	39
2014	Granada, ESP	59	29	-	-
2010	Munich, GER	64	49	-	-

Asian Games

Year	Location	10m Air Rifle	50m Rifle 3 Positions
2018	Indonesia	18	5

Asian Championships

Year	Location	10m Air Rifle	50m Rifle 3 Positions	10m Air Rifle Team X	50m Rifle Prone
2019	Doha, QAT	45	6	19	18
2018	Kuwait City, KUW	12	-	4	-
2016	Tehran, IRI	18	-	-	-

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	10m Air Rifle	50m Rifle 3 Positions	10m Air Rifle Team	50m Rifle Prone	50m Rifle 3 Positions - Team
2021	1 x 35th	1 x 20th	1 x 11th	-	1 x 13th
2019	1 x 63rd, 1 x 66th, 1 x 77th	1 x 23rd, 1 x 45th, 1 x 69th	1 x 40th, 1 x 54th	-	-
2018	1 x 17th, 1 x 65th, 1 x 69th	1 x 9th, 1 x 48th, 1 x 67th	1 x 59th, 1 x 62nd	-	-
2017	1 x 53rd, 1 x 58th	1 x 6th, 1 x 41st	-	1 x 26th, 1 x 43rd	-

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
6	2017	50m Rifle 3 Positions	Qabala, AZE
9	2018	50m Rifle 3 Positions	Guadalajara, MEX
11	2021	10m Air Rifle Team	New Delhi, IND
13	2021	50m Rifle 3 Positions - Team	New Delhi, IND
17	2018	10m Air Rifle	Guadalajara, MEX
20	2021	50m Rifle 3 Positions	New Delhi, IND
23	2019	50m Rifle 3 Positions	New Delhi, IND
26	2017	50m Rifle Prone	Munich, GER
35	2021	10m Air Rifle	New Delhi, IND
40	2019	10m Air Rifle Team	Beijing, CHN

Legend
X - Mixed, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Driving offroad, playing the guitar, listening to music, fixing cars. (Athlete, 20 Aug 2018)

Athlete

Coaching, Physical Education, Teaching - South Kazakhstan State University, Shymkent, KAZ

Wife Varvara, one child

English, Russian

Central Sports Army Club [CSKA] [Almaty, KAZ]

Anvar Yunusmetov [personal], KAZ, from 2000

Right eye, right hand (issf-sports.org, 2018)

His wife Varvara Yurkova [nee Kovalenko] has represented Kazakhstan in shooting. She won bronze in the 50m rifle prone at the 2006 World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. (SportsDeskOnline, 29 Jan 2020; Athlete, 13 Jan 2020)

He began shooting in September 1997 in Shymkent, Kazakhstan. (Athlete, 20 Aug 2018)

"I was doing swimming and had to give it up. At school, there was a call to enrol in a shooting group, and I decided to go. I always did sports seriously, and not just for fun. So, I decided to try it." (Athlete, 09 Feb 2016)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (vesti.kz, 23 Jul 2020; Athlete, 13 Jan 2020)

US shooter Matthew Emmons, Italian shooter Niccolo Campriani, Russian shooter Sergey Kamenskiy. (Athlete, 20 Aug 2018)

"Never give up, go only forward to your goal." (Athlete, 20 Aug 2018)

He holds the title of Master of Sport of International Class in Kazakhstan. (shooting-sports.kz, 18 Dec 2019; Athlete, 09 Feb 2016)