Yuriy Yurkov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yuriy Yurkov

Olympic rifle shooter

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1983

Place of Birth: Shymkent, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Kazakhstan

Profession: sport shooter

Nationality: Kazakhstan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Yuriy Yurkov (Kazakh: ???? ?????; born March 11, 1983 in Shymkent) is a Kazakhstani sport shooter.
Yurkov represented Kazakhstan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for all three rifle shooting events. In his first event, 10 m air rifle, Yurkov was able to hit a total of 586 points within six attempts, finishing forty-second in the qualifying rounds.
Few days later, he placed forty-second again this time in the 50 m rifle prone, by one target behind Austria's Christian Planer from the second attempt, with a total score of 588 points.
In his third and last event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, Yurkov was able to shoot 395 targets in a prone position, 382 in standing, and 385 in kneeling, for a total score of 1,162 points, finishing only in twenty-seventh place.