Manuel Silva (sport shooter)
Manuel Moura Vieira da Silva (born November 16, 1971 in Porto) is a Portuguese sport shooter.[2] He won a bronze medal at the 1999 ISSF World Shotgun Championships in Tampere, Finland, and eventually captured a total of six medals (one gold, two silver, and three bronze) for the men's trap shooting at the ISSF World Cup series.[1] He also competed in the mixed trap shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and men's trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
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Full name | Manuel Moura Vieira da Silva | |||||||||||||
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Born | Porto, Portugal | 16 November 1971|||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) | |||||||||||||
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Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||
Event(s) | Trap | |||||||||||||
Club | Clube Industrial de Pevidém[1] | |||||||||||||
Coached by | Manuel Ricardo[1] | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Twelve years after competing in his last Olympics, Silva qualified for his third Portuguese team, as a 36-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by winning the silver medal from the first meet of the 2006 ISSF World Cup series in Qingyuan, China, with a score of 145 points.[3] He finished only in twenty-seventh place by one point behind Canada's Giuseppe di Salvatore, for a total score of 111 targets.[4]
References
- "ISSF Profile – Manuel Silva". ISSF. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Manuel Silva". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- "Manavjit missed bronze by whisker". Outlook India. 5 April 2006. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- "Men's Trap Qualification". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2013.