fullname coach event club headercolor birth_place weight height sport birth_date article_title name
vladimir aleksandrovich goncharov anatoliy suslov 10 pistol -lrb- fp -rrb- m air pistol -lrb- ap60 -rrb- 50 m dynamo st. petersburg #d 09df2 sosnovy bor , russian sfsr , soviet union 59 kg lb 0 on 1.67 0 on shooting 21 may 1977 vladimir gontcharov
 vladimir gontcharov
vladimir gontcharov

vladimir aleksandrovich goncharov -lrb- also `` vladimir gontcharov '' , ; born may 21 , 1977 in sosnovy bor -rrb- is a russian sport shooter .
he collected a total of three bronze medals in pistol shooting at the issf world shooting championships -lrb- 2002 , 2006 , and 2014 -rrb- , and was also selected to represent russia at the 2000 summer olympics in sydney , finishing ninth in the air pistol and fourth in the free pistol .
gontcharov is also a member of the shooting team for dynamo st. petersburg , under head coach anatoliy suslov .
gontcharov qualified for the russian squad in pistol shooting at the 2000 summer olympics in sydney after shooting a mandatory minimum score of 590 in air pistol at the 1999 issf world cup meet in the same olympic venue .
in the men 's air pistol , gontcharov scored 572 points to share the ninth position with neighboring uzbekistan 's dilshod mukhtarov in the prelims , nearly missing out the final round by a two-point deficit .
gontcharov gave himself a chance to improve his feat in the men 's free pistol by occupying one of the top eight slots for the final round , but eventually fired a disastrous 7.3-point shot in the ninth series that dropped him out of the medal podium to fourth with a final score of 662.5 , finishing just behind the bronze medalist martin tenk of the czech republic by a 0.3-point margin .
at the 2014 issf world shooting championships in granada , spain , gontcharov edged out china 's pu qifeng by a tremendous 1.1-point advantage to claim his third career bronze medal -lrb- the first one being done in 2002 and the other in 2006 -rrb- in the men 's air pistol with 178.9 points .
despite missing out his chance to try for three consecutive olympic bids since 2000 , gontcharov 's third-place finish at the world championships had guaranteed him an olympic slot for the russian team at the 2016 summer olympics , signifying his possible comeback from a sixteen-year absence .
