Gustavo Huet
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Gustavo Huet Bobadilla (born November 22, 1912 in Mexico City , † November 20, 1951 in Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza ) was a Mexican marksman .
successes
Gustavo Huet took part in the Olympic Games three times . At the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932 , he scored 294 points with the small-bore rifle in the competition in the prone position at 50 m, as did Bertil Rönnmark , so that the two played off for the Olympic victory. While Rönnmark also managed 294 points in the jump-off, Huet only got 290 points and thus won the silver medal. In 1936 in Berlin he took seventh place in the same discipline, in 1948 in London he did not get past 30th place in the horizontal post. He won the gold medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Panama City in 1938 .
Huet was a police officer. In 1951 he was run over by a drunk driver while on duty during the Carrera Panamericana . His brother Guillermo Huet was also an Olympic sport shooter.
Web links
- Gustavo Huet in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Huet, Gustavo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huet Bobadilla, Gustavo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican marksman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico City , Mexico |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1951 |
| Place of death | Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza , Mexico |