José Antonio Colado

José Antonio Colado
Personal information
Full nameJosé Antonio Colado Castro
Nationality Spain
Born (1976-10-30) 30 October 1976 (age 48)
Seville, Spain
Height1.61 m (5 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)10 m air pistol (AP60)
50 m pistol (FP)
ClubClub Precisión Triana[1]
Coached byCezary Staniszewski[1]

José Antonio Colado Castro[a] (born 30 October 1976 in Seville) is a retired Spanish sport shooter.[2] He has been selected to compete for Spain in pistol shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has attained top 8 finishes in a major international competition, spanning the Mediterranean Games and the ISSF World Cup series.[1] Colado also trains under head coach Cezary Staniszewski for twelve years as a full-fledged member of the Spanish pistol shooting team.[1][3]

Colado qualified for the Spanish team in pistol shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 578 to gain an Olympic quota place for Spain in the air pistol, following his outside-final finish at the European Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden one year earlier.[1][4][5] In the 10 m air pistol, held on the first day of the Games, Colado shot a total of 572 to force a two-way tie with host nation Greece's Dionissios Georgakopoulos for a lowly thirty-third place, slashing six points off from his entry standard.[6][7] Three days later, in the 50 m pistol, Colado put up another dismal display from his air pistol feat to end up in a thirty-fourth place tie with Cuba's Norbelis Bárzaga at 542, trailing his fellow marksman Isidro Lorenzo by a wide, twenty-point gap.[8][9]

In early 2015, Colado served full-time as the sports technical director of the pistol team for the Royal Spanish Olympic Shooting Federation (Spanish: Real Federación Española de Tiro Olímpico), just eleven years since his immediate Olympic debut.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Colado and the second or maternal family name is Castro.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "ISSF Profile – José Antonio Colado". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "José Antonio Colado". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  3. ^ a b "José Antonio Colado, nuevo Director Técnico Deportivo" [José Antonio Colado, new sports technical director] (in Spanish). Real Federación Española de Tiro Olímpico. 3 February 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  4. ^ Rincón, Reyes (6 August 2004). "Conquistar Atenas a punta de pistola" [Pistol shooter earned a place for Athens] (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  5. ^ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  6. ^ "Shooting: Men's 10m Air Pistol Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  7. ^ "Lorenzo y Colado, en pistola aire" [Lorenzo and Colado compete in air pistol] (in Spanish). Diario AS. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  8. ^ "Shooting: Men's 50m Pistol Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  9. ^ "Diploma olímpico en tiro" [Olympic award in shooting] (in Spanish). Eurosport. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2015.


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