Toshikazu Yamashita

Toshikazu Yamashita

Personal information
Nationality	Japan
Born	(1977-02-21) 21 February 1977 Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport	Shooting
Event(s)	10 m air rifle (AR40) 50 m rifle prone (FR60PR) 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)
Club	Japan Self Defense Forces
Medal record Men's shooting Representing Japan Asian Championships 2007 Kuwait City 10 m air rifle team 2007 Kuwait City 50 m rifle prone team 2012 Doha 50 m rifle prone team

Toshikazu Yamashita (山下 敏和, Yamashita Toshikazu, born February 21, 1977 in Komatsushima, Tokushima) is a Japanese sport shooter. Yamashita represented Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for all three rifle shooting events.

In his first event, 10 m air rifle, Yamashita was able to hit a total of 590 points within six attempts, finishing twenty-eighth in the qualifying rounds. Few days later, he placed eighteenth in the 50 m rifle prone, by one target behind Belarus' Petr Litvinchuk from the final attempt, with a total score of 593 points. In his third and last event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, Yamashita was able to shoot 399 targets in a prone position, 382 in standing, and 386 in kneeling, for a total score of 1,167 points, finishing only in sixteenth place.

External links

• NBC 2008 Olympics profile