Edwin Vásquez

Edwin Vásquez Cam (born July 28, 1922 in Lobitos , Piura region , † March 9, 1993 ) was a Peruvian sports shooter . He won the only Olympic gold medal for Peru (as of 2016).

Vásquez had finished second at the 1948 Bolivar Games. At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 he scored 545 rings in a competition with the free pistol and thus had six rings ahead of the Swiss Rudolf Schnyder , the Swedish world record holder Torsten Ullman and the American Huelet Benner , who after the jump-off in that order the Places occupied. Vásquez was the first Peruvian medalist at the Olympic Games. Upon his return home, the engineer was rewarded with a permanent position in the Peruvian Ministry of the Interior.

Vásquez only competed in the 1948 Olympic Games. As a marksman, he remained active. In 1951 he won the first Pan American Games and in 1968 he was South American champion.

It wasn't until 1984 in Los Angeles that another Peruvian won an Olympic medal: With Francisco Boza in the trap, it was again a marksman.

literature

Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

Edwin Vásquez in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 140 note 196.

personal data
SURNAME	Vásquez, Edwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vásquez Cam, Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Peruvian marksman
DATE OF BIRTH	July 28, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lobitos , Piura region
DATE OF DEATH	March 9, 1993

[1] Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 140 note 196.