Pablo Álvarez (sport shooter)

Pablo Álvarez
Personal information
Full namePablo Damián Álvarez
Nationality Argentina
Born (1978-04-20) 20 April 1978 (age 46)
Chivilcoy, Argentina
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)10 m air rifle (AR60)
50 m rifle prone (FR60PR)
50 m rifle 3 positions (FR3X40)
ClubGeneral Jose de San Martin[1]
Coached byRuben Giannone[1]
Medal record
Men's shooting
Representing  Argentina
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place 1999 Winnipeg FR3X40
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Santo Domingo FR3X40

Pablo Damián Álvarez (born April 20, 1978 in Chivilcoy) is an Argentine sport shooter.[2] He produced a career tally of two medals (one silver and one bronze) at the 1999 and 2003 Pan American Games, and was selected to compete for Argentina in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004).[1][3][4] Having started shooting at the age of ten, Alvarez also serves as a full-time member of General Jose de San Martin Shooting Club in his native Chivilcoy, under his personal coach Ruben Giannone.[1][5]

Alvarez' Olympic debut came as a 22-year-old at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he shared a 31st place tie with three other shooters in the air rifle, finished 49th in the rifle prone, and rounded out his program to 33rd in the rifle three positions, accumulating total scores of 586, 582, and 1,150 points respectively.[6][7][8]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Alvarez qualified for his second Argentine squad in rifle shooting, by having attained a mandatory minimum Olympic standard of 1,142, and having secured a berth in the rifle three positions from the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.[3][9] In the 10 m air rifle, Alvarez shot 583 out of 600 to finish 43rd in a field of 47 shooters, betraying Mexico's Roberto José Elias by a close, one-point gap.[10] Four days later, in the 50 m rifle prone, Alvarez aggregated four more points than his previous event to share a 40th overall position with Dutch shooter Dick Boschman, posting a total score of 587.[11] In his third and last event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, Alvarez fired 394 in the prone position, 360 in the standing, and 381 in the kneeling to accumulate an overall record of 1,135 points, leaving him in 38th place along with host nation Greece's Evangelos Liogris.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "ISSF Profile – Pablo Álvarez". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Pablo Álvarez". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Un sábado con tono bronceado" [A Saturday with a bronze] (in Spanish). Argentina: La Nación. 10 August 2003. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Pablo Alvarez en los Panamericanos de Toronto" [Pablo Alvarez at the Pan Am Games in Toronto] (in Spanish). La Razón de Chivilcoy. 10 August 2003. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Tiro Deportivo: Destacada labor chivilcoyana en el 71º Campeonato Nacional" [Sport shooting: Chivilcoy native finished 71st at the National Championships] (in Spanish). La Campaña. 11 May 2013. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  6. ^ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's 10m Air Rifle" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 46–48. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  7. ^ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's 50m Rifle Prone" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 49–51. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  8. ^ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 52–54. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  9. ^ "China se llevó el primer oro de Atenas" [China takes the first gold in Athens] (in Spanish). La Capital. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  10. ^ "Shooting: Men's 10m Air Rifle Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  11. ^ "Shooting: Men's 50m Rifle Prone Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  12. ^ "Shooting: Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.