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Stênio Yamamoto | |
Fullname: | Stênio Akiro Yamamoto |
Birth Date: | 24 June 1961 |
Birth Place: | São Paulo, Brazil |
Weight: | 900NaN0 |
Sport: | Shooting |
Event: | 10 m air pistol (AP60) 50 m pistol (FP) |
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Stênio Akiro Yamamoto (born June 24, 1961 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian sport shooter of Japanese descent.[1] He won a silver medal in the free pistol at the 2007 ISSF World Cup series in Munich, Germany, with a score of 660.8 points.[2] [3]
At age forty-seven, Yamamoto made his official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in two pistol shooting events. He scored a total of 568 targets in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air pistol, by one point ahead of Romania's Iulian Raicea, finishing only in forty-third place.[4] Three days later, Yamamoto placed forty-fourth in his second event, 50 m pistol, by two points behind Tajikistan's Sergey Babikov, with a total score of 538 targets.[5]