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Ömer Akgün (born 15 February 1982) is a Turkish
sport shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such ...
specialized in
10 m air rifle 10 meter air rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) shooting event, shot at a bullseye target over a distance of using a calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of . It is one of the ISSF sports governed in shooting spor ...
event. Ömer Akgün was born into a family with 13 champion sport shooters in
Dicle Dicle (, ) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 738 km2, and its population is 36,114 (2022). It is populated by Zaza Kurds. The mayor is Felat Aygören from the HDP. Dicle is the Zaza Language and T ...
district of
Diyarbakır Province Diyarbakır Province (; ; ) is a province and metropolitan municipality in southeastern Turkey. Its area is 15,101 km2, and its population is 1,804,880 (2022). The provincial capital is the city of Diyarbakır. The Kurdish majority province ...
, southeastern Turkey on 1 January 1982. Impressed by his older brother, Akgün started shooting sport in 1996. He is a member of Diyarbakır Tennis and Shooting Club. He won the gold medal and the bronze medal in the Mixed event at the
2017 Islamic Solidarity Games The 4th Islamic Solidarity Games () was a multinational, multi-sport event that was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from May 12 to 22, 2017. Previously, the event was held in Saudi Arabia in 2005 and Indonesia in 2013. The second event, originally sch ...
in
Baku Baku (, ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Azerbaijan, largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and in the Caucasus region. Baku is below sea level, which makes it the List of capital ci ...
, Azerbaijan. He competed at the
2018 Mediterranean Games The 2018 Mediterranean Games (, ), officially known as the XVIII Mediterranean Games (, ) and commonly known as Tarragona 2018, was an international multi-sport event held from 22 June to 1 July 2018 in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. Tarragona was ...
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Tarragona Tarragona (, ; ) is a coastal city and municipality in Catalonia (Spain). It is the capital and largest town of Tarragonès county, the Camp de Tarragona region and the province of Tarragona. Geographically, it is located on the Costa Daurada ar ...
, Spain. He set a national record with 630.1 points at the 2020 European Championship 10m in
Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...
, Poland, and obtained a quota for the
2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Akgun, Omer 1982 births Living people People from Dicle Sportspeople from Diyarbakır Turkish male sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in shooting Mediterranean Games competitors for Turkey Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Shooters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic shooters for Turkey 21st-century Turkish sportsmen European Games competitors for Turkey Shooters at the 2023 European Games Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games Islamic Solidarity Games gold medalists for Turkey Islamic Solidarity Games bronze medalists for Turkey