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Nationality | Vietnam | ||||||||||||||
Born | Kim Sơn, Ninh Bình, Vietnam | 15 June 1960||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 10 m air pistol (
AP60) 25 m centre fire pistol ( CFP) 50 m pistol ( FP) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nguyen Manh Tuong ( Vietnamese: Nguyễn Mạnh Tường; born June 15, 1960) is a Vietnamese sport shooter. [1] He won a bronze medal for the men's 25 m centre-fire pistol ( CFP) at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, with a score of 586 points. [2] [3]
At age forty-four, Nguyen made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he finished forty-first in the men's 10 m air pistol by one point behind Chinese Taipei's Chang Yi Ning, with a score of 568 points.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Nguyen competed for the second time in two pistol shooting events. He scored a total of 572 targets in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air pistol, by three points ahead of Ukraine's Ivan Rybovalov from the final attempt, finishing only in thirty-fourth place. [4] Three days later, Nguyen placed thirty-eighth in his second event, 50 m pistol, by two points ahead of Poland's Wojciech Knapik from the final attempt, with a total score of 543 targets. [5]