Personal information | |
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Full name | Stênio Akiro Yamamoto |
Nationality | Brazil |
Born | São Paulo, Brazil | 24 June 1961
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Shooting |
Event(s) | 10 m air pistol (
AP60) 50 m pistol ( FP) |
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]
Personal information | |
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Full name | Stênio Akiro Yamamoto |
Nationality | Brazil |
Born | São Paulo, Brazil | 24 June 1961
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Shooting |
Event(s) | 10 m air pistol (
AP60) 50 m pistol ( FP) |
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]