Rodrigo Bastos
Personal information
Full nameRodrigo Pimentel Bastos
Nationality Brazil
Born (1967-07-04) 4 July 1967
Guarapuava, Brazil
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Weight100 kg (220 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
EventTrap (TR125)
Coached byCarlo Danna[1]
Medal record
Men's shooting
Representing  Brazil
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place 2003 Santo Domingo TR125

Rodrigo Pimentel Bastos (born July 4, 1967 in Guarapuava) is a Brazilian sport shooter.[2] He represented his nation Brazil in two editions of the Olympic Games (1988 and 2004), and also picked up a silver medal in men's trap at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.[1][3]

Bastos made his official debut at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he shared a fortieth spot with Chinese shooter Gao E in the mixed trap, accumulating a total score of 137 clay pigeons.[4] On that same year, Bastos scored 24 hits to pocket the gold medal at the ISSF World Cup series in Mexico City, Mexico.[1]

Sixteen years after his first Olympics, Bastos qualified for his second Brazilian squad, as a 37-year-old, in the men's trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Earlier in the process, he placed second behind U.S. sport shooter Lance Bade by a single point difference from the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, ending a 15-year medal drought of his sporting career.[3][5] He scored 117 out of 125 targets to obtain a fourteenth spot in the prelims, tying his record with four other shooters.[6][7]

At the 2014 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Granada, Spain, Bastos delivered an astonishing record in the nation's sporting history with a fifth-place finish in the men's trap. With his nation hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Bastos is expected to compete on his third Olympic bid.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ISSF Profile – Rodrigo Bastos". ISSF. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Rodrigo Bastos". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  3. 1 2 Wilner, Barry (4 August 2003). "Cuban wrestlers complete sweep of Pan Am gold". USA Today. Associated Press. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "Seoul 1988: Shooting – Mixed Trap" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 390. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  5. ↑ "Rodrigo Bastos ganha prata na fossa olímpica e garante vaga em Atenas" [Rodrigo Bastos wins silver in shooting and guarantees a place at the Olympics in Athens] (in Portuguese). Universo Online. 3 August 2003. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  6. ↑ "Rodrigo Bastos chega ao Brasil" [Rodrigo Bastos arrives in Brazil] (in Portuguese). Universo Online. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  7. ↑ "Shooting: Men's Trap Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  8. ↑ "Rodrigo Bastos fica em 5º no Campeonato Mundial de Tiro Esportivo" [Rodrigo Bastos finished fifth at the World Sport Shooting Champs] (in Portuguese). Lance!. Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2014.


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