Manuel Silva (sport shooter)

Manuel Silva

Personal information
Full name	Manuel Moura Vieira da Silva
Nationality	Portugal
Born	(1971-11-16) 16 November 1971 (age 53) Porto, Portugal
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Sport	Shooting
Event	Trap
Club	Clube Industrial de Pevidém[1]
Coached by	Manuel Ricardo[1]
Medal record Men's shooting Representing  Portugal World Championships 1999 Tampere Trap

Manuel Moura Vieira da Silva (born November 16, 1971, in Porto) is a Portuguese sport shooter.[2] He won a bronze medal at the 1999 ISSF World Shotgun Championships in Tampere, Finland, and eventually captured a total of six medals (one gold, two silver, and three bronze) for the men's trap shooting at the ISSF World Cup series.[1] He also competed in the mixed trap shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and men's trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Twelve years after competing in his last Olympics, Silva qualified for his third Portuguese team, as a 36-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by winning the silver medal from the first meet of the 2006 ISSF World Cup series in Qingyuan, China, with a score of 145 points.[3] He finished only in twenty-seventh place by one point behind Canada's Giuseppe di Salvatore, for a total score of 111 targets.[4]

Olympic results

Olympic results
Event	1992	1996	2008
Trap	11th 193	7th 122	27th 111

References

1. "ISSF Profile – Manuel Silva". ISSF. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Manuel Silva". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
3. "Manavjit missed bronze by whisker". Outlook India. 5 April 2006. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
4. "Men's Trap Qualification". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2013.

External links

• NBC 2008 Olympics profile