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| National team | Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 January 1968 Capua, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Skeet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | G.S. Forestale [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Start activity | 1983 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ennio Falco (born 3 January 1968) is a former Italian sport shooter and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in skeet shooting in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. [2]
Falco has three silver medals from the World Championships in Skeet Shooting, from 1997, 2001 and 2005, as well as bronze medals from 1994 and 2002. [3]
| Event | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 |
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| Skeet |  Gold 125+24 | 14th 121 | 21st 119 | 14th 117 | 14th 118 |
Kimberly Susan Rhode is an American double trap and skeet shooter. A California native, she is a six-time Olympic medal winner, including three gold medals, and six-time national champion in double trap. She is the most successful female shooter at the Olympics as the only triple Olympic Champion and the only woman to have won two Olympic gold medals for Double Trap. She won a gold medal in skeet shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics, equaling the world record of 99 out of 100 clays. Most recently, she won the bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics, making her the first Olympian to win a medal on five different continents, the first Summer Olympian to win an individual medal at six consecutive summer games, and the first woman to medal in six consecutive Olympics.
Ennio Mattarelli is an Italian sport shooter and Olympic champion. He won the gold medal in trap shooting at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He also competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Andrea Benelli is a retired Italian skeet shooter. He competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics, and won a gold medal in 2004 and a bronze in 1996. In 2004, he and Marko Kemppainen finished with 149 hits out of 150, but Kemppainen missed first in the shoot-off. Benelli also won the individual world title in 1987 and 1990, placing second in 1986, and third in 1999. In 1996 he set two world records at 125/125 and 150/150.
Mykola Mykolayovych Milchev is a Ukrainian sport shooter. He is the 2000 Olympic champion in skeet shooting. With a perfect score of 150, he set an Olympic record and tied the world record.
Juan Jorge Giha Yarur is a nationalized Peruvian sports shooter and Olympic medalist. A six-time Olympian he won a silver medal in Skeet Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, second after gold-winner Zhang Shan.
Chiara Cainero is an Italian sport shooter who won a gold medal in Skeet at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Christine Wenzel is a German skeet shooter. A four-time world champion, she started shooting in 2000 and is competing for German club SSC Schale under the guidance of Wilhelm Metelmann. She won the bronze in the women's skeet at the 2008 Olympic Games. At the 2012 Games, she again reached the final, finishing in 6th place.
Andri Eleftheriou is a Cypriot sport shooter, and a member of the women's national shooting team of Cyprus.
Julio Elizardo Dujarric Lembcke is a Dominican sport shooter. Dujarric made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed twenty-first in men's skeet, with a score of 119 points, tying his position with seven other shooters including former Olympic champion Ennio Falco of Italy, and five-time Olympian Guillermo Alfredo Torres of Cuba.
Véronique Girardet is a French sport shooter. She set a world record of 96 targets by winning the gold medal for women's skeet shooting at the 2005 ISSF World Championships in Lonato, Italy.
Georgios Salavantakis is a Greek sport shooter. He won a gold medal in men's skeet shooting at the 2004 ISSF World Cup series in Sydney, Australia, with a total score of 148 points.
Pak Jong-ran is a North Korean sport shooter. She won two gold medals in the women's skeet at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, China, and at the 1991 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Perth, Western Australia, with scores of 197 and 191 targets, respectively.
Nathalie Linda Larsson is a Swedish sport shooter. She won two gold medals in the women's skeet at the 2005 European Shooting Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, and at the 2009 European Shooting Championships in Osijek, Croatia, accumulating scores of 92 and 93 targets, respectively.
Tino Wenzel is a German sport shooter. He won a gold medal for the men's skeet shooting at the 2006 ISSF World Cup in Suhl, and bronze at the 2003 ISSF World Cup in New Delhi, India, accumulating scores of 145 and 147 targets, respectively. Wenzel is also the husband of Olympic bronze medalist Christine Brinker.
Natalia Rahman is an Australian sport shooter. She won a gold and silver medal in the women's skeet shooting, at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, coincidentally in her home city, accumulating a score of 90 targets. She has also won a bronze medal for Australia at the world cup in Shanghai, and bronze medal at the World Championships in Cairo, and silver medal at the World Championships in Finland. Rahman is also the sister of two-time Olympian Paul Rahman, and the daughter of her personal coach Goran Rahman.
Hendrikus "Hennie" Dompeling is a Dutch sport shooter. He has competed for the Netherlands in skeet shooting at five Olympics, and has been close to an Olympic medal in 2000. Outside the Olympic career, Dompeling has produced a phenomenal record of twenty-one medals in a major international competition: two bronze at the World Championships, a total of four at the ISSF World Cup final, a total of nine at numerous ISSF World Cup meets, and a total of six under both junior and senior category at the European Championships.
Andrzej Głyda is a Polish sport shooter. He was selected to compete for Poland in two editions of the Olympic Games, and eventually won two career medals, a gold and a silver, in a major international competition, spanning the World and European Championships. Głyda is a member of the shooting team for WSK Śląsk Wrocław, and a resident athlete of the Polish Sport Shooting Federation, where he trains throughout his sporting career under head coach and 1976 Olympic bronze medalist Wiesław Gawlikowski.
Mairaj Ahmed Khan is an Indian shooter in the shotgun skeet discipline. He won the Olympics quota in the Shotgun Skeet Event in Lonato, Italy in September 2015, the first Indian to qualify in this discipline. In 2016, he won silver at ISSF World Cup held in April in Rio de Janeiro, the host country for 2016 Olympics.
Smit Singh is an international sportsperson of Indian national shooting team. He is the present National Record holder of India in skeet shooting at the score of 123 out of 125 which he established at the ISSF World Cup, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates in April 2013. Singh studied at Somerville College, University of Oxford.
Ganemat Sekhon is an Indian sport shooter from Chandigarh. She specializes in skeet. She won India a medal in the Women's skeet event of ISSF Shooting World Cup in March 2021. Sekhon is right handed and is right eye dominant.
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1 From 1972 until 1992, the event was open to women as well as men. Zhang is the only woman to have won it. |
