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| Tomáš Caknakis | |
| Fullname: | Tomáš Caknakis |
| Birth Date: | 15 August 1986 |
| Birth Place: | Krnov, Czechoslovakia |
| Weight: | 640NaN0 |
| Sport: | Shooting |
| Event: | 10 m running target (10RT) 50 m running target (50RT) |
| Club: | SSK Krnov |
| Coach: | Ján Kermiet |
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Tomáš Caknakis (born 15 August 1986 in Krnov) is a Czech sport shooter.[1]
He has been selected to compete for the Czech Republic in running target shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has won a total of fifteen medals under the junior category in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series, the World Championships, and the European Championships.[2] Caknakis trains under the tutelage of 1988 Olympic marksman Ján Kermiet for the national running target team while shooting in his native Krnov.[3]
Caknakis was among the youngest athletes (aged 17) to be selected for the Czech team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, competing in the men's 10 m running target.[3] He managed to get a minimum qualifying standard of 580 to join with fellow marksman and 1996 Olympic bronze medalist Miroslav Januš and gain an Olympic berth for the Czech Republic, following a top five finish on his senior debut at the ISSF World Cup meet a year earlier in Munich, Germany.[4] [5] Upon entering the Games as a possible Olympic medal prospect, Caknakis had attained a perfect score of 100 on the third run to pull off a steady aim in the slow-target portion with 284 points. He scored a modest 276 in the fast-moving round, but could not improve much better at the very end of the qualifying stage, falling to a distant seventeenth in a 19-shooter field with a total score of 560 points, just eighteen points adrift of the Olympic final cutoff.[6] [7]