Zaid Al-Mutairi (; born March 25, 1982) is a Kuwaiti sport shooter. He won a silver medal, as a member of the Kuwaiti shooting team, at the

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. He also captured two more medals for skeet shooting at the

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). Al-Mutairi represented

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at the

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, where he competed in the men's skeet shooting, along with four-time Olympian Abdullah Al-Rashidi. He finished only in tenth place by two points behind his teammate Al-Rashidi, for a total score of 118 targets in the two-day qualifying rounds, and one additional point from the shoot-off match.

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* 1982 births Living people Kuwaiti male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Kuwait Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2002 Asian Games Shooters at the 2006 Asian Games Shooters at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for Kuwait Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists in shooting {{Kuwait-sportshooting-bio-stub