Ennio Falco
Italian sport shooter
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National team | Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1968-01-03) 3 January 1968 (age 56) Capua, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Skeet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | G.S. Forestale[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Start activity | 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ennio Falco (born 3 January 1968) is a former Italian sport shooter and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in skeet shooting in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.[2]
Biography
Falco has three silver medals from the World Championships in Skeet Shooting, from 1997, 2001 and 2005, as well as bronze medals from 1994 and 2002.[3]
Olympic results
Event | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 |
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Skeet | Gold 125+24 | 14th 121 | 21st 119 | 14th 117 | 14th 118 |
See also
References
- ^ "Ennio Falco Profile". issf-sports.org. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
- ^ Profile: "Ennio Falco" Archived 2007-08-24 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on January 15, 2008)
- ^ "Shooting World Championships – Men: Skeet" Archived 2011-05-18 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on January 15, 2008)
External links
- Ennio Falco at ISSF
- Ennio Falco at Olympedia
- Ennio Falco at the CONI honored athlete website (in Italian)
- Ennio Falco at the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (in Italian)
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Olympic champions in men's skeet
- 1968: Yevgeni Petrov (URS)
- 1972: Konrad Wirnhier (FRG)
- 1976: Josef Panáček (TCH)
- 1980: Hans Kjeld Rasmussen (DEN)
- 1984: Matthew Dryke (USA)
- 1988: Axel Wegner (GDR)
- 1992: Zhang Shan1 (CHN)
- 1996: Ennio Falco (ITA)
- 2000: Mykola Milchev (UKR)
- 2004: Andrea Benelli (ITA)
- 2008: Vincent Hancock (USA)
- 2012: Vincent Hancock (USA)
- 2016: Gabriele Rossetti (ITA)
- 2020: Vincent Hancock (USA)
- 2024: Vincent Hancock (USA)
1 From 1972 until 1992, the event was open to women as well as men. Zhang is the only woman to have won it.