Konstantin Prikhodtchenko

Who is Konstantin Prikhodtchenko?

Konstantin Vladimirovich Prikhodtchenko is a Russian sport shooter. He won a silver medal for the 50 m rifle three positions at the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Lahti, Finland, with a score of 1255.4 points. He is also a member of CSKA Moscow and is coached and trained by Victor Vlasov.

At age thirty-two, Prikhodtchenko made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed twenty-ninth in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air rifle, for a total score of 589 points, tying his position with three other shooters including Slovenia's Rajmond Debevec.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Prikodtchenko competed only in two rifle shooting events. He scored a total of 698.4 points, and a bonus of 10.0 from a shoot-off in the men's 10 m air rifle, finishing only in fifth place. Few days later, Prikodtchenko placed fifth again this time in the 50 m rifle prone, by one tenth of a point behind Norway's Vebjørn Berg, with a total score of 699.0 points.