Alexander Taransky
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Born | 8 January 1941 | ||||||||||||||||
Died | 8 December 2017 | (aged 76)||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Sports shooting | ||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Rapid Fire Pistol | ||||||||||||||||
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Alexander Taransky (8 January 1941 – 8 December 2017)[1] was an Australian sports shooter. He competed at the 1968, 1972 and the 1976 Summer Olympics.[2][3][4] He was also selected for the Australian Pistol Shooting Team for the 1980 Summer Olympics however the Australian Shooting Team joined the boycott of the Moscow Olympics.[5] He competed at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane where he won two gold medals for pistol shooting.
References[]
- ^ "Vale Alex Taransky". Pistol Australia. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alexander Taransky". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
- ^ "Athlete Alexander Taransky". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
- ^ "Olympian Search". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
- ^ "Malcolm Fraser: Bitter memories of push to boycott 1980 Olympics". The Australian. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
External links[]
- Alexander Taransky at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Alexander Taransky at Olympedia
- Alexander Taransky at the Commonwealth Games Federation
Categories:
- 1941 births
- 2017 deaths
- Australian male sport shooters
- Olympic shooters of Australia
- Shooters at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Shooters at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Australian sport shooting biography stubs