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Nationality | Slovak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Šaľa, Czechoslovakia | 9 June 1976|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Slovakia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Trap | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SCP Bratislava | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Erik Varga (Hungarian : Varga Erik; born 9 June 1976) is a Slovak sport shooter who specializes in the trap. [1] He is a member of the Hungarian community in Slovakia. [2]
At the 2008 Olympic Games he finished in joint eighth place in the trap qualification, missing a place among the top six, who progressed to the final round.
At the 2012 Olympic Games he finished in twelfth place in the trap. [3]
Manavjit Singh Sandhu is an Indian sport shooter who specializes in trap shooting. He is a Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardee in 2006 and Arjuna Awardee in 1998. He is a 4 time Olympian, having represented India at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics, Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics the London 2012 Summer Olympics and the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. He is former World No. 1 ranked Trap Shooter.
Erik Vlček is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He is a member of the Hungarian community in Slovakia. Since 2023 he has served as an MP of the National Council of the Slovak Republic.
István Varga was a Hungarian international handball player and Olympic participant.
Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková is a Slovak sports shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women's Trap event at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the silver medal at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Jesús Serrano is a Spanish sport shooter who specializes in trap.
Glenn Kable is a Fijian sport shooter who specializes in the trap event.
Vitaly Vitalyevich Fokeev is a Russian former sport shooter who specialized in the double trap.
William Chetcuti is a Maltese sport shooter who specializes in the double trap. He won the 2011 World Cup event in Beijing and the 2004 European Junior Championship where he set what is still a world record. He was the first Maltese shooter to win a World Cup medal.
Roland Gerebics is a Hungarian sport shooter who specializes in the double trap.
Malta competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The country's participation at London marked its fifteenth appearance in the Summer Olympics since its début at the 1928 Summer Olympics. The delegation included two track and field athletes, Rachid Chouhal and Diane Borg, one double trap shooter William Chetcuti and two swimmers Andrew Chetcuti and Nicola Muscat. All five competitors qualified for the Games through wildcard places. William Chetcuti was selected as the flag bearer for the opening ceremony while Borg held it at the closing ceremony. Choudai did not progress beyond the preliminary stages of the men's 100 metres, while Borg advanced to the first round of the women's 100 metres before being eliminated. William Chetcuti finished ninth in the double trap shooting event, while Andrew Chetcuti and Muscat were unable to progress to the first rounds of their respective swimming disciplines.
Azmy Mehelba is an Egyptian sport Olympic shooter, who began shooting at age 11. He was selected to join the Egyptian national men skeet shooting team by the age of 14 and participated in his first international competition at age 15.
Tomáš Klobučník is a Slovak swimmer, who specializes in breaststroke events. He is a multiple-time Slovak swimming champion and record holder in the 100 and 200 m breaststroke, and also, a two-time Swimmer of the Year by the Slovak Swimming Federation. Klobucnik is also a resident athlete for J&T Sport Team Bratislava, and is coached and trained by Gabriel Baran.
Richard Varga is a Slovak triathlete. He is the winner of the 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015 ITU Aquathlon World Championship and is considered as the fastest swimmer among triathletes.
Shooting competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 14 August at the National Shooting Center in Deodoro. A maximum of 390 athletes were able to compete in the fifteen events across these Games. The event format was similar to 2012, although there were significant changes to the rules and guidelines of the competition.
Charlotte Hollands is a British sports shooter. She won her first Commonwealth Gold medal at the age of 15 at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. In 2015 World Championship, she was part of the British team that won gold in the team trap event.
Richárd Bognár is a Hungarian sport shooter. He achieved a sixth-place finish in the men's double trap at the 2011 ISSF World Cup series in Maribor, Slovenia, with a total score of 191 targets, earning him a spot on the Hungarian team for the Olympics. Bognar is also a member of Honved Bolyai Janos SE, and is coached and trained by Erzsebet Vasvari.
Lin Yi-chun is a Taiwanese sport shooter. She won two medals, gold and silver, in the women's double trap, at the 2001 and 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Cairo, Egypt and Lahti, Finland, respectively. She also captured a bronze medal in the women's trap at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, accumulating a score of 80 clay pigeons and a bonus of 1 target from a shoot-off. She won gold at the 2023 ISSF World Shooting Championships in trap.
The men's trap at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 7–8 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center. There were 33 competitors from 24 nations.
Slovakia competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics after gaining its independence from the former Czechoslovakia.
Varga or Vargha is a Hungarian occupational surname derived from the Hungarian term varga, meaning, “shoemaker” or “cobbler”. The Czech and Slovak female form is Vargová.