Rajmond Debevec (born 29 March 1963) is a Slovenian

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. He has won three Olympic and ten World Championship medals in shooting. He formerly held the world record in the 50 meter rifle 3 positions event.

Career

Debevec started shooting in 1971 and became a member of the Yugoslavian junior national team in 1979. Debevec joined the Military Sport Squad of the

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in 1991 and holds the rank of

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Olympic Games

He won his first medal in 1980 by participating in the Junior European Championships. He represented Yugoslavia at the

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in 1984 and 1988, and Slovenia in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012. He won

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at the

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, where he competed in the event

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. His appearance at eight Olympic Games are the most ever by a Slovenian or Yugoslavian athlete.

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n shooter

Afanasijs Kuzmins Afanasijs Kuzmins (born 22 March 1947) is a Latvian shooter who won two Olympic medals in the 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol event; gold at the 1988 for the USSR and silver at the 1992 Summer Olympics for Latvia. He also won the 1986 World Championsh ...

is the only shooter with more Olympic appearances than Debevec; Kuzmins competed in his ninth games at the

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, where Debevec competed for the eighth time.

World Cup and other competitions

Debevec formerly held the world record for 50m rifle three position with 1186 points, which he set in Munich at the World Cup Final in 1992. He also held the Olympic record (1177 points) for the same event, which he set during his gold medal-winning performance at the

. He has won two world military championships in 300m three positions in 2006 and 300m rapid fire rifle in 2005 and 2008. He has also competed in World Cup events for crossbow, air rifle, small-bore rifle, and big bore rifle.

Olympic results

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