Yuriy Yurkov

{{Short description|Kazakhstani sport shooter (born 1983)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|3|11|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Shymkent, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union

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| sport = Shooting

| event = 10 m air rifle (AR40)
50 m rifle prone (FR60PR)
50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)

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| club = Dynamo Shymkent

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{{MedalSport|Men's shooting}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Asian Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2023 Changwon|50 m rifle prone team}}

{{MedalBronze|2015 Kuwait City|{{nowrap|50 m rifle 3 positions team}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|Asian Airgun Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2021 Shymkent|10 m air rifle team}}

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Yuriy Yurkov ({{langx|kk|Юрий Юрков}}; born March 11, 1983, in Shymkent) is a Kazakhstani sport shooter.{{cite sports-reference|title = Yuriy Yurkov|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/yu/yury-yurkov-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418060540/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/yu/yury-yurkov-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 30 December 2012}} 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.{{cite web|title=Men's 10m Air Rifle Qualification |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc=SHM101901/index.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |access-date=30 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816053954/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSHM101901/index.html |archive-date=16 August 2012 }} 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.{{cite web|title=Men's 50m Rifle Prone Qualification |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc=SHM103901/index.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |access-date=30 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816052443/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSHM103901/index.html |archive-date=16 August 2012 }} 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.{{cite web|title=Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Qualification |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc=SHM104901/index.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |access-date=30 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816052404/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSHM104901/index.html |archive-date=16 August 2012 }}