Khaled Al-Mudhaf (Arabic: خالد المضف; born 12 June 1978) is a Kuwaiti sport shooter.^[2][3] He captured the men's trap title at the 2002 ISSF World Championships in Lahti, Finland, and finished in the top six respectively on two successive editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004). Apart from his World championship title, Al-Mudhaf also collected fourteen more medals to his career record, including two from the Asian Games (a silver in Guangzhou 2010 and a bronze in Doha 2006). Al-Mudhaf is a member of the Kuwait City Shooting Club, where he trains full-time under Russian-born coach Rustam Yambulatov.^[1][4]

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Khaled Al-Mudhaf

Personal information
Nationality	Kuwaiti
Born	(1978-06-12) 12 June 1978 (age 45) Kuwait City, Kuwait
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	105 kg (231 lb)
Sport
Country	Kuwait
Sport	Shooting
Event	Trap (TR125)
Club	Kuwait City Shooting Club[1]
Coached by	Rustam Yambulatov[1]
Medal record Men's shooting Representing  Kuwait World Championships 2002 Lahti Trap 2007 Nicosia Trap team 2018 Changwon Trap team 2019 Lonato del Garda Trap team 2019 Lonato del Garda Trap 2023 Baku Trap Asian Games 1998 Bangkok Trap team 2006 Doha Trap team 2014 Incheon Trap team 2022 Hangzhou Trap team 2006 Doha Trap Asian Championships 2016 Abu Dhabi Trap 2017 Astana Trap team 1996 Shanghai Trap 1997 Brunei Trap 1999 Kuwait City Trap 2001 Bangkok Trap 2003 New Delhi Trap 2005 Bangkok Trap 2007 Manila Trap 2009 Almaty Trap 2013 Almaty Trap team 2004 Kuala Lumpur Trap 2011 Kuala Lumpur Trap 2011 Kuala Lumpur Trap team Representing the Athletes from Kuwait Asian Games 2010 Guangzhou Trap team 2010 Guangzhou Trap

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Al-Mudhaf's Olympic debut came at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed fourth in the men's trap with a total score of 139, just a single clay away from the bronze medal won by Italy's Giovanni Pellielo.^[5][6][7]

Two years later, Al-Mudhaf reached the peak of his sporting career by claiming his first individual gold in a major international competition at the 2002 ISSF World Championships in Lahti, Finland. He hit a total of 146 targets to outplay the rest of the finalists field, including Pellielo and Olympic champion Michael Diamond for the trap title. Coming atop the podium, Al-Mudhaf also assured an Olympic quota for his native Kuwait, and was eventually selected to compete in his second Games.^[8]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Al-Mudhaf qualified for his second Kuwaiti team in the men's trap, after having achieved a minimum qualifying score of 122 from his top finish at the Worlds two years earlier.^[1][9] As one of the favorites vying for the Olympic medal in the sporting event, Al-Mudhaf put up another top-level effort with a qualifying score of 121 to take the fourth seed in the six-man finals, but fell out of the medals dismally to last under pressure after missing more targets than any other shooter in the field, finishing only with 141 hits.^[10][11]

After a disappointing Olympic feat, Al-Mudhaf came back to his noble form to pick up the bronze medal in the individual trap at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, and then upgraded to silver at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, attaining total scores of 128 and 137 clay pigeons respectively.^[12][13]