Luis Méndez (marksman)

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Luis Méndez , also known as Luis Mendes , (born May 18, 1959 ) is a Uruguayan sports shooter.

Career

The 1.79 meter tall Luis Méndez already took part in 1986 with the Uruguayan team in the South American Games that year in Chile . There he won the gold medal in the team competition with the center fire pistol together with Gustavo Cadarso and José Mautone . In addition, he won the bronze medal in the team competition with the free pistol with Cardoso and Fernando Richeri . With the small caliber standard pistol, he also won a silver medal in individual. The following year he was part of the team at the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis . There he and the team secured the bronze medal with the air pistol. In his participation in the Pan American Games in 1995 , 1999 and 2007 and in the South American Games in 1994 and 1998 , he did not reach the podium. Méndez was also part of the Uruguayan squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney . There he was ranked 41st with the air pistol. In the following year he was three-time Uruguayan champion with the center fire, the standard and the air pistol. In 2006 he won silver at the South American Games in Buenos Aires with the 25-meter center fire pistol.

Awards

As part of the honors of the best Uruguayan athletes of the period 2009-2010 ("Deportista del Año"), he was honored on March 28, 2011 by the Comité Olímpico Uruguayo in the Teatro Solís as the best athlete of 2009 in the "Shooting" category.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results of the Uruguayan athletes ( memento of October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the COU website, accessed on March 7, 2014
  2. ↑ Luis Méndez in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on March 7, 2014
  3. ↑ Campeones Nacionales 2001 (Spanish) in La República of March 11, 2002, accessed on March 9, 2014
  4. ↑ El Comité Olímpico premió a los mejores deportistas  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) in El Observador, March 29, 2011, accessed March 15, 2014@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.elobservador.com.uy  
  5. ↑ CEREMONIA “DEPORTISTA DEL AÑO 2009-2010” ( Memento of January 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) at www.cou.org.uy, accessed on March 15, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Méndez, Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan marksman
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1959