Headercolor: | lightblue |
Toshikazu Yamashita | |
Birth Date: | 21 February 1977 |
Birth Place: | Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan |
Weight: | 700NaN0 |
Sport: | Shooting |
Event: | 10 m air rifle (AR40) 50 m rifle prone (FR60PR) 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20) |
Club: | Japan Self Defense Forces |
Show-Medals: | yes |
is a Japanese sport shooter.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]