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| Full name | Lorena Vanesa Guado Somaruga | |||||||||||
| Nationality | Argentine | |||||||||||
| Born | 26 October 1973 | |||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||
| Country |  Argentina | |||||||||||
| Sport | Sports shooting | |||||||||||
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Lorena Vanesa Guado Somaruga [1] [lower-alpha 1] (born 26 October 1973) is an Argentine sports shooter. She competed in two events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. [2]
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