The road ahead for Timofey Aleynikov may be still very long but the 12-year-old boy from Russia is taking small but steady steps to follow the path set forth by his Olympian parents Lioubov Galkina and Yevgeny Aleynikov who share four Olympic medals between them.
Timofey has won the gold medal in the Junior Russian Shooting Championship.
Timofey shot 617.7 to qualify on the fifth place in the final and then shot 248.5 to claim the yellow metal.
Timofey’s mother Lioubov had won the gold in 50m rifle three positions and silver in 10m air rifle at the 2004 Athens Olympics and silver in 10m air rifle at the 2008 Beijing Olympics while his father Yevgeny had won the bronze in 10m air rifle at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.