Personal information | |
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Full name | Maria Faka |
Nationality | ![]() |
Born | Thessaloniki, Greece | 25 October 1983
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Shooting |
Event | 10 m air rifle ( AR40) |
Club | Arhelaos Katerinis [1] |
Coached by | Konstantinos Myrotis [1] |
Maria Faka ( Greek: Μαρία Φάκα; born January 2, 1979, in Thessaloniki) is a Greek sport shooter. [2] She was selected as one of eleven shooters to represent the host nation Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and had yielded numerous top 25 finishes in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series and the European Championships. [1] Faka trains at Arhelaos Katerinis Shooting Club in Katerini under the tutelage of Konstantinos Myrotis. [1] [3]
Faka was named as part of the host nation's shooting team to compete in the women's 10 m air rifle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. [4] She had registered a minimum qualifying score of 393 from her outside-final finish at the ISSF World Cup meet in Changwon, South Korea to fill in one of the Olympic berths reserved to the host nation. [1] [5] Faka shot a decent 388 out of a possible 400 to tie for thirty-third place with Belgium's Daisy de Bock, Denmark's Ann Spejlsgaard, and Egypt's Shimaa Abdel-Latif in the qualifying round, failing to advance further to the final. [6] [7]
Personal information | |
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Full name | Maria Faka |
Nationality | ![]() |
Born | Thessaloniki, Greece | 25 October 1983
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Shooting |
Event | 10 m air rifle ( AR40) |
Club | Arhelaos Katerinis [1] |
Coached by | Konstantinos Myrotis [1] |
Maria Faka ( Greek: Μαρία Φάκα; born January 2, 1979, in Thessaloniki) is a Greek sport shooter. [2] She was selected as one of eleven shooters to represent the host nation Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and had yielded numerous top 25 finishes in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series and the European Championships. [1] Faka trains at Arhelaos Katerinis Shooting Club in Katerini under the tutelage of Konstantinos Myrotis. [1] [3]
Faka was named as part of the host nation's shooting team to compete in the women's 10 m air rifle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. [4] She had registered a minimum qualifying score of 393 from her outside-final finish at the ISSF World Cup meet in Changwon, South Korea to fill in one of the Olympic berths reserved to the host nation. [1] [5] Faka shot a decent 388 out of a possible 400 to tie for thirty-third place with Belgium's Daisy de Bock, Denmark's Ann Spejlsgaard, and Egypt's Shimaa Abdel-Latif in the qualifying round, failing to advance further to the final. [6] [7]