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| Born | 26 June 1995 Guatemala City, Guatemala[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adriana Ruano Oliva (born 26 June 1995) is a Guatemalan sports shooter and Olympic champion.[2] She competed in the women's trap event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3] She won the gold medal and set a new Olympic record in the women's trap event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, the first ever gold medal for Guatemala at the Olympics.[4][5]
Career
[edit]Ruano originally trained as a gymnast, representing Guatemala at the 2010 Pan American Championships and the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games.[6] While training for the 2011 World Gymnastics Championships, which was a qualifier for the 2012 Summer Olympics, Ruano felt pain in her back, which later proved to be six damaged vertebrae. Her doctor recommended that she take up shooting if she wanted to continue a career in sports.[7]
In 2023, she won gold in the Pan American Games Women's trap competition in Santiago, Chile. She represented the Independent Athletes Team at the games as, at the time, Guatemala's Olympic Committee was suspended by the International Olympic Committee.[8][9]
Ruano's 2024 Olympic Games win earned praise from the president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo who wrote, "The Olympic history of Guatemala is written in golden letters thanks to Adriana Ruano".[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Adriana Ruano". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ "Adriana Ruano". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ "Shooting – Qualification – Day 1 Results". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ "Shooting: Ruano wins women's trap, Guatemala's first Olympic gold in history". Paris 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ Ordonez, Oscar (31 July 2024). "¡Oro para Guatemala! Adriana Ruano logra máxima gloria en los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024". Prensa Libre (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "Adriana Ruano". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "A spinal injury killed Adriana Ruano's dream as a gymnast. She just won Guatemala's first Olympic gold medal as a shooter". CBS News. New York City: CBS. 31 July 2024. Archived from the original on 1 August 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ a b Puleo, Mark (31 July 2024). "Guatemala's Ruano Oliva wins first gold medal in country's history". The Athletic. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "IOC provisionally lifts suspension of Guatemala NOC". www.insidethegames.biz. 20 March 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
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