Roberto José Elias

Roberto José Elias
Personal information
Full name Roberto José Elías Orozco
Nationality  Mexico
Born (1976-11-06) 6 November 1976
León, Guanajuato, Mexico
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air rifle (AR60)
50 m rifle prone (FR60PR)
50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)
Club Cinegetico del Bavio[1]
Coached by Alessandro Elias (father)[1]

Roberto José Elías Orozco (born November 6, 1976 in León, Guanajuato) is a Mexican sport shooter.[2] He won two bronze medals in both air and small-bore rifle at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, accumulating scores of 1,223.4 and 690.9 points, respectively.[1][3] Elias also competed for his respective shooting events at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, but he neither reached the final round, nor claimed an Olympic medal.

Eight years after competing in his first Olympics, Elias qualified for his third Mexican team, as a 31-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by obtaining a gold medal in the air rifle from the 2005 Championships of the Americas in Salinas, California.[1] He scored a total of 590 targets in the men's 10 m air rifle, by one point ahead of South Korea's Han Jin-Seop from the final attempt, finishing only in twenty-fifth place.[4]

Olympic results

Event 2000 2004 2008
50 metre rifle three positions 39th
1140
36th
1137
50 metre rifle prone 41st
587
10 metre air rifle 38th
583
44th
582
25th
590

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "ISSF Profile – Roberto José Elías". ISSF. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  2. "Roberto José Elías". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  3. "Logra mexicano José Elías Orozco, Bronce en rifle" [Mexico's Jose Elias Orozco wins bronze in rifle] (in Spanish). Medio Tiempo. 15 July 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  4. "Men's 10m Air Rifle Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 26 January 2013.

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