| Adriana Ruano Oliva | |
| Sport: | Shooting |
| Birth Date: | 26 June 1995 |
| Birth Place: | Guatemala City, Guatemala[1] |
Adriana Ruano Oliva (born 26 June 1995) is a Guatemalan sports shooter and Olympic champion.[2] She competed in the women's trap event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3] She won the gold medal and set a new Olympic record in the women's trap event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, the first ever gold medal for Guatemala at the Olympics.[4] [5]
Ruano originally trained as a gymnast, representing Guatemala at the 2010 Pan American Championships and the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games.[6] While training for the 2011 World Gymnastics Championships, which was a qualifier for the 2012 Summer Olympics, Ruano felt pain in her back, which later proved to be six damaged vertebrae. Her doctor recommended that she take up shooting if she wanted to continue a career in sports.[7]
In 2023, she won gold in the Pan American Games Women's trap competition in Santiago, Chile. She represented the Independent Athletes Team at the games as, at the time, Guatemala's Olympic Committee was suspended by the International Olympic Committee.[8] [9]
Ruano's 2024 Olympic Games win earned praise from the president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo who wrote, "The Olympic history of Guatemala is written in golden letters thanks to Adriana Ruano".