Juan Jorge Giha
Juan Jorge Giha Yarur (born April 23, 1955 in Santiago de Chile ) is a former Peruvian marksman in the discipline of skeet . In 1992 he was second in the Olympic Games and in 1997 World Championship third in this discipline.
Athletic career
Juan Jorge Giha is the son of the marksman Juan Jorge Giha senior , who took 49th place in the Trap discipline at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich . Eight years after his father's Olympic start, Juan Jorge Giha first took part in the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 and took 25th place in the skeet. In 1984 in Los Angeles the 53rd place followed, in 1988 in Seoul he was 27th. In 1989 Giha finished sixth at the American Championships.
Up to the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, the throwing pigeon disciplines were held as a mixed competition, that is, men and women took part in the same competition. In the qualification in Barcelona, the Chinese Zhang Shan hit 200 of 200 targets, Giha reached the final in third place with 198 hits. In the final, the Chinese won with 23 goals and won gold. Behind them, three shooters reached the shootout with 198 hits in qualification and 24 hits in the final. Juan Jorge Giha won silver in imposition ahead of the Italian Bruno Rossetti and the Romanian Ioan Toman .
In 1993 the American Championships took place in Lima, Giha took fourth place. At the 1994 World Championships, he finished 40th the following year, he reached 31st place. Before his fifth participation in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta , he was 13th at the World Cup in Atlanta. In the Olympic competition he reached only 42nd place. In 1997 the World Championships took place in Lima. The 1995 world champion Abdullah Al Raschidi from Kuwait won ahead of the 1996 Olympic champion Ennio Falco from Italy and Juan Jorge Giha. Giha finished 49th at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, and in 2003 he was 79th at the World Championships.
Web links
- Juan Jorge Giha in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Juan Jorge Giha in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ Place of birth according to the Olympic database SportsReference, the ISSF website states Lima as the place of birth.
- ↑ Qualification in Skeet 1992 at SportsReference.com
- ↑ Final round of the 1992 Olympic Games on SportsReference
- ↑ World Championships at sport-komplett.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giha, Juan Jorge |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Giha Yarur, Juan Jorge |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Peruvian marksman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |