Venezuelan shooter Leonel Martínez will end a 40-year wait for his second appearance at the Olympic Games after qualifying for Paris 2024. Martínez sealed his classification after finishing second in the men’s trap final at the Pan American Games in Santiago.
The shooter returns to the Games for the first time since he represented Venezuela in the mixed trap event of Los Angeles 1984. Now, at 60 years old, The athlete will be part of the country’s shooting team in Paris 2024.
Only the Japanese rider, Hiroshi Hoketsu, has had a longer interval between appearances at the Games, in your case, in the dressage test. Hoketsu first competed in Tokyo 1964 and 44 years later he competed again in the 2008 Beijing Games, at the age of 67.
2023-11-01 16:04:38
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