Arseny Borrero

Arseny Borrero
Personal information
Full name Arseny Borrero
Nationality  Cuba
Born (1979-10-29) 29 October 1979
Havana, Cuba
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9 12 in)
Weight 87 kg (192 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air pistol (AP60)
50 m pistol (FP)
Club Ciudad de Habana[1]
Coached by Narciso López[1]

Arseny Borrero (born October 29, 1979 in Havana) is a Cuban sport shooter.[2] He earned a silver medal in the men's free pistol at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and was selected to compete for the Cuban squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing fortieth in the process.[1][3] Throughout his sporting career, Borrero trained as a member of the shooting team for Havana City Sport Club under his personal coach Narciso López.[1]

Borrero burst into the shooting scene at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where he edged out his compatriot Norbelis Bárzaga by four tenths of a point margin to take the silver medal in the free pistol, accumulating a score of 639.3. Despite losing to gold to U.S. shooter Daryl Szarenski, who achieved the slot earlier from the 2002 World Championships, Borrero grabbed one of the available Olympic slots to compete for the Cuban team.[3][4]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Borrero scored 535 points to nearly escape from the end of the field for a fortieth-place finish in the free pistol prelims, failing to advance further into the final.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "ISSF Profile – Arseny Borrero". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. "Arseny Borrero". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  3. 1 2 Ampuero, Luis (5 August 2003). "Juegos-EEUU gana oro en pistola libre 50 metros masculino" [Pan Am Games: U.S. wins gold in the 50 metre free pistol] (in Spanish). Invertia.com. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  4. "US Wins Gold Medal in Free Pistol Contest in 2003 Pan-American Games". China Radio International. 6 August 2003. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  5. "Shooting: Men's 50m Pistol Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
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