José Antonio Colado

José Antonio Colado
Personal information
Full name José Antonio Colado Castro
Nationality  Spain
Born (1976-10-30) 30 October 1976
Seville, Spain
Height 1.61 m (5 ft 3 12 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air pistol (AP60)
50 m pistol (FP)
Club Club Precisión Triana[1]
Coached by Cezary Staniszewski[1]

José Antonio Colado Castro (born October 30, 1976 in Seville) is a retired Spanish sport shooter.[2] He has been selected to compete for Spain in pistol shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has attained top 8 finishes in a major international competition, spanning the Mediterranean Games and the ISSF World Cup series.[1] Colado also trains under head coach Cezary Staniszewski for twelve years as a full-fledged member of the Spanish pistol shooting team.[1][3]

Colado qualified for the Spanish team in pistol shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 578 to gain an Olympic quota place for Spain in the air pistol, following his outside-final finish at the European Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden one year earlier.[1][4][5] In the 10 m air pistol, held on the first day of the Games, Colado shot a total of 572 to force a two-way tie with host nation Greece's Dionissios Georgakopoulos for a lowly thirty-third place, slashing six points off from his entry standard.[6][7] Three days later, in the 50 m pistol, Colado put up another dismal display from his air pistol feat to end up in a thirty-fourth place tie with Cuba's Norbelis Bárzaga at 542, trailing his fellow marksman Isidro Lorenzo by a wide, twenty-point gap.[8][9]

In early 2015, Colado served full-time as the sports technical director of the pistol team for the Royal Spanish Olympic Shooting Federation (Spanish: Real Federación Española de Tiro Olímpico), just eleven years since his immediate Olympic debut.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "ISSF Profile – José Antonio Colado". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. "José Antonio Colado". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 "José Antonio Colado, nuevo Director Técnico Deportivo" [José Antonio Colado, new sports technical director] (in Spanish). Real Federación Española de Tiro Olímpico. 3 February 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  4. Rincón, Reyes (6 August 2004). "Conquistar Atenas a punta de pistola" [Pistol shooter earned a place for Athens] (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  5. "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  6. "Shooting: Men's 10m Air Pistol Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  7. "Lorenzo y Colado, en pistola aire" [Lorenzo and Colado compete in air pistol] (in Spanish). Diario AS. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  8. "Shooting: Men's 50m Pistol Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  9. "Diploma olímpico en tiro" [Olympic award in shooting] (in Spanish). Eurosport. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2015.

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