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Diego Duarte Delgado | |
Fullname: | Diego Duarte Delgado |
Birth Date: | 20 October 1970 |
Birth Place: | Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia |
Weight: | 800NaN0 |
Website: | Instagram @diegoduarteshotgunacademy |
Sport: | Shooting |
Event: | Skeet, Sporting Clays, Double Trap Men |
Club: | Club Cazandes, Waunakee Gun Club |
Team: | Professional Sporting Clays Association PSCA |
Turnedpro: | 2013 |
Coach: | Diego Duarte Shotgun Academy |
Coaching: | Skeet, Sporting Clays |
Worlds: | International Skeet |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Diego Duarte Delgado (born October 20, 1970, in Bucaramanga, Santander) is a Colombian sport shooter.[1] He won the World Championships in Skeet Men at Lonato World Cup 2003, defeating Eric Wandtdal and Olympic silver medalist Tore Brovold, Diego also is holder of the Panamerican Record with 149/150, He won a bronze medal in men's skeet shooting at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with a total score of 148 points.[2]
Duarte made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed fifteenth in men's skeet shooting, with a total score of 120 points, tying his position with five other shooters, including Russia's Valeriy Shomin and Australia's Paul Rahman.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Duarte competed for the second time, as a 38-year-old, in men's skeet shooting. He finished only in thirty-eighth place by three points behind Qatar's Rashid Saleh Hamad from the final attempt, for a total score of 106 points.[3]