Mashfi Al-Mutairi (; born July 19, 1973, in

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) is a Kuwaiti sport shooter. He won a bronze medal in double trap shooting at the

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, and was eventually selected to compete for the Kuwaiti team in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004). Al-Mutairi is a member of the Kuwait City Shooting Club, where he trains full-time under Italian-born coach and 1996 Olympian Mirco Cenci. Al-Mutairi's Olympic debut came at the

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, where he shot 134 out of 150 hits to force a two-way tie for tenth place with Finland's Raimo Kauppila in the men's double trap, just five targets away from the final cutoff. At the

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, Al-Mutairi qualified for his second Kuwaiti team in the men's double trap, after having achieved a minimum qualifying score of 137 from his second-place finish at the Asian Championships in

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. Al-Mutairi marked a score of 131 out of 150 targets to finish in twelfth from a field of twenty-five shooters in the qualifying phase, failing to advance to the final round.

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* 1973 births Living people Kuwaiti male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Kuwait Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1998 Asian Games Shooters at the 2002 Asian Games Shooters at the 2006 Asian Games Shooters at the 2010 Asian Games Sportspeople from Kuwait City Asian Games silver medalists for Kuwait Asian Games bronze medalists for Kuwait Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists in shooting Asian Games bronze medalists in shooting {{Kuwait-sportshooting-bio-stub