Shooter’s last word
NZPA-Reuter Moscow Soviet crackshot Alexander Melentev, who took the Olympic free pistol title with a record score, was told by his teacher 11 years ago that he would never learn to shoot. Melentev, aged 26, is an army officer. His record
of 581 points beat the previous world mark by four points. “When I was at school, I came bottom in the shooting,” he said after receiving the first gold medal of the 1980 Games at the wooded Dinamo shooting range outside Moscow.
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Press, 22 July 1980, Page 23
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