Rajmond Debevec

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| name = Rajmond Debevec

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| citizenship = Slovenian

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1963|3|29}}

| birth_place = Postojna, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia

| residence = Škofljica, Slovenia{{cite web |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=634/bio/index.html |title=2008 Beijing Summer Olympics | Rajmond Debevec Profile & Bio, Photos & Videos | NBC Olympics |access-date=5 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816103536/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=634/bio/index.html |archive-date=16 August 2012 }}

| height = 1.83 m

| weight = 76 kg

| alma_mater =

| country = Yugoslavia (until 1991)
Slovenia (since 1992)

| sport = Shooting

| event = 10m air rifle, 50m rifle three positions, 50m rifle prone, 300m rifle prone

| club = SD Olimpija Ljubljana

| coach = Alojz Mikolič

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Rajmond Debevec (born 29 March 1963) is a Slovenian sport shooter. 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 Slovenian Army in 1991{{Cite web |url=http://www.rajmond-debevec.110mb.com/rdeng.html |title=Rajmond Debevec | R.D. D.o.o. | Rajmond |access-date=31 March 2010 |archive-date=24 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424034745/http://www.rajmond-debevec.110mb.com/rdeng.html |url-status=dead }} and holds the rank of Warrant Officer.{{cite web |url=http://armedforcessports.defense.gov/zsho.html |title=Armed Forces Sports - Shooting |access-date=31 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607215214/http://armedforcessports.defense.gov/zsho.html |archive-date=7 June 2010 }}

=Olympic Games=

He won his first medal in 1980 by participating in the Junior European Championships. He represented Yugoslavia at the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1988, and Slovenia in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012. He won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he competed in the event 50 metre rifle three positions.

His appearance at eight Olympic Games are the most ever by a Slovenian or Yugoslavian athlete. Latvian shooter Afanasijs Kuzmins is the only shooter with more Olympic appearances than Debevec; Kuzmins competed in his ninth games at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 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 2000 Summer Olympics.

He has won two world military championships in 300m three positions in 2006 and 300m rapid fire rifle in 2005 and 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cism-milsport.org/eng/003_SPORTS/018_shooting/results.asp|title = CISM - International Military Sports Council, Friendship through Sport!| date=29 September 2020 }} 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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!Event

!width="75"|1984
{{small|Los Angeles}}

!width="65"|1988
{{small|Seoul}}

!width="75"|1992
{{small|Barcelona}}

!width="75"|1996
{{small|Atlanta}}

!width="75"|2000
{{small|Sydney}}

!width="75"|2004
{{small|Athens}}

!width="75"|2008
{{small|Beijing}}

!width="75"|2012
{{small|London}}

align=left|50 metre rifle three positions

|20th
1140

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|style="background: #ccffcc"|6th
1167+95.6

|9th
1166

|style="background: #ccffcc"|{{Gold1}} Gold
1177+98.1

|style="background: #ccffcc"|4th
1166+96.6

|style="background: #ccffcc"|{{Bronze3}} Bronze
1176+95.7

|27th
1161

align=left|50 metre rifle prone

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|18th
594

|9th
596

|19th
593

|9th
594

|21st
592

|style="background: #ccffcc"|{{Bronze3}} Bronze
596+105.0

align=left|10 metre air rifle

|12th
580

|25th
585

|9th
589

|style="background: #ccffcc"|6th
591+101.1

|9th
591

|29th
589

|31st
589

|—

References

External links

{{ISSF}}
[http://www.rajmond-debevec.110mb.com/ Debevec's home page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503221028/http://rajmond-debevec.110mb.com/ |date=3 May 2009 }}
{{SR/Olympics profile|de/rajmond-debevec-1}}

{{succession box

| before = First

| title = Flagbearer for {{SLO}}

| years = Barcelona 1992

| after = Brigita Bukovec

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Category:1963 births

Category:Living people

Category:Sportspeople from Postojna

Category:Slovenian male sport shooters

Category:Yugoslav male sport shooters

Category:ISSF rifle shooters