Fernanda Russo

Fernanda Russo
Personal information
Full name Fernanda Russo
Nationality  Argentina
Born (1999-10-02) 2 October 1999
Córdoba, Argentina
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Weight 58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air rifle (AR40)
Medal record
Women's shooting
Representing  Argentina
Summer Youth Olympics
2014 Nanjing Mixed team
Pan American Games
2015 Toronto AR40

Fernanda Russo (born October 2, 1999 in Córdoba) is an Argentine sport shooter.[1] She won a silver medal in the air rifle at the 2015 Pan American Games, and also shared a runner-up prize with Mexico's José Santos Valdes in the mixed international rifle team at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.[2][3]

Russo made her first Olympic team for Argentina as a fourteen-year-old at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, claiming the silver medal in shooting. In her first event, the girls' 10 m air rifle, she shot 406.9 points to finish thirteenth from a field of twenty, but missed out a chance to compete for the final.[4] Two days later, Russo and her Mexican partner José Santos Valdes had put up a decent aim to take home the silver in the mixed international rifle team competition, losing the final match 2–10 to Hungary's István Péni and Egypt's Hadir Mekhimar.[2][5]

The 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada sought Russo a chance to prove her credentials on the world stage despite of her age. Coming to the final round of the women's 10 m air rifle with a fourth-seeded score of 411.3, Russo marked a superb 204.7 to claim a silver medal in a duel against Mexico's Goretti Zumaya, who eventually walked away with a victory by just a narrow 0.1-point margin.[3][6] Moreover, Russo secured a place on the Argentine team and had an opportunity to be selected for her first ever Olympics.

References

  1. ↑ "ISSF Profile – Fernanda Russo". ISSF. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  2. 1 2 Ceschi, Alessandro (22 August 2014). "Hungary and Egypt take first-ever Air Rifle mixed, last event of Nanjing". ISSF. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Canadian, U.S. and Mexican shooters earn Rio berths". Reuters. 13 July 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Nanjing 2014: Women's 10m Air Rifle Qualification Results". ISSF. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Joy, despair and friendships formed at final day of shooting". JSChina. 20 August 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  6. ↑ Leza, Germán (13 July 2015). "A los 15 años, ganó la plata y se clasificó a Río: "No vine por una medalla, no me lo esperaba"" [At age 15, she won a silver and a spot for Rio; "I did not expect to come closer to the medal podium"]. La Nación. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/25/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.