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| Born | 30 June 1941 Guanajay, Cuba | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sport shooting | ||||||||||||||
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Roberto Castrillo (born 30 June 1941) is a Cuban sport shooter and Olympic medalist. He won a bronze medal in skeet shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. [1] He also competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics. [2]
The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad and officially branded as Moscow 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russia. The games were the first to be staged in an Eastern Bloc country, as well as the first Olympic Games and only Summer Olympics to be held in a Slavic language-speaking country. They were also the only Summer Olympic Games to be held in a socialist country until the 2008 Summer Olympics held in China. These were the final Olympic Games under the IOC Presidency of Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin before he was succeeded by Juan Antonio Samaranch shortly afterwards.
Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at the Dynamo Shooting Range in Mytishchi in eastern part of Moscow between 20 and 26 July. Seven events were contested. Although events were mixed, i.e. open to both men and women, all medals were swept by men, and there were only 5 women competing compared to 77 in Los Angeles 1984, which introduced separate female events.
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Alexander Remmovich Melentyev was a Soviet competitive sport shooter who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. The world record he set in 1980 remained unbeaten for 34 years. He was the first Olympic gold medalist from Kyrgyzstan.
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The CSKA Sports Complex is an Olympic Village that is part of CSKA Moscow and was prepared to the 1980 Summer Olympics. It is located right next to a military air field.
The men's skeet shooting competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 24 July until 26 July at the Dynamo Shooting Range in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Five shooters tied for first with 196, with the three medalists tying with a 25 possible in the shoot-off. Kjeld Rasmussen shot another possible 25 in the second shoot-off to win the gold medal over Lars-Göran Carlsson (silver) and Roberto Castrillo (bronze).
The mixed 50 metre rifle, prone was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourteenth appearance of the event. The competition was held on 21 July 1980 at the shooting ranges in Moscow. 56 shooters from 32 nations competed. Gold medallist Károly Varga broke his shooting hand in a football match two days before the competition started, and had to wear a bandage over it when competing. He said that the injury actually helped him, because he was forced to squeeze the trigger more delicately. The event was technically mixed, although no women competed. Mixed events were abolished after 1980, with women-only events being introduced instead.
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