Rajmond Debevec

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.

Rajmond Debevec

Rajmond Debevec
Personal information
Citizenship	Slovenian
Born	(1963-03-29) 29 March 1963 Postojna, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Country	Yugoslavia (until 1991) Slovenia (since 1992)
Sport	Shooting
Event(s)	10m air rifle, 50m rifle three positions, 50m rifle prone, 300m rifle prone
Club	SD Olimpija Ljubljana
Coached by	Alojz Mikolič
Medal record Men's Shooting Olympic Games Representing Slovenia 2000 Sydney 50 m rifle 3 positions 2008 Beijing 50 m rifle 3 positions 2012 London 50 m rifle prone World Championships Representing Yugoslavia 1990 Moscow 10 m air rifle 1990 Moscow 50 m rifle 3 positions team 1990 Moscow 50 m rifle prone team Representing Slovenia 2002 Lahti 300 m rifle 3 positions 2018 Changwon 300 m rifle prone 2023 Baku 300 m rifle prone 2002 Lahti 50 m rifle prone 1998 Barcelona 50 m rifle 3 positions 2006 Zagreb 300 m rifle prone 2010 Munich 300 m standard rifle team

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 and holds the rank of Warrant Officer.

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. He has also competed in World Cup events for crossbow, air rifle, small-bore rifle, and big bore rifle.

Olympic results

Event	1984 Los Angeles	1988 Seoul	1992 Barcelona	1996 Atlanta	2000 Sydney	2004 Athens	2008 Beijing	2012 London
50 metre rifle three positions	20th 1140	—	6th 1167+95.6	9th 1166	Gold 1177+98.1	4th 1166+96.6	Bronze 1176+95.7	27th 1161
50 metre rifle prone	—	—	18th 594	9th 596	19th 593	9th 594	21st 592	Bronze 596+105.0
10 metre air rifle	12th 580	25th 585	9th 589	6th 591+101.1	9th 591	29th 589	31st 589	—

See also

• List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games

External links

• Rajmond Debevec at the International Shooting Sport Federation
• Debevec's home page Archived 3 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
• Rajmond Debevec at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)