Andrés Manuel Pila Solano (born 11 May 1991) is a Colombian competitive
archer
Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In mo ...
.
A lone male archer on the Colombian team at the
2016 Summer Olympics
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, Pila has collected a total of four medals throughout his five-year international archery career, including a bronze in the men's individual recurve at the
2014 South American Games
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in
Santiago
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, Chile.
Pila was selected to compete for Colombia in the
men's individual recurve at the
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
in
Rio de Janeiro
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, Brazil.
[ Sitting at forty-third position from the initial stage of the competition with 654 points, Pila lost his opening round match to the hard-charging Malaysian and London 2012 quarterfinalist ]Khairul Anuar Mohamad
Khairul Anuar bin Mohamad (born 22 September 1991) is a Malaysian professional archer. He began to compete for the national team in 2011.
2011 FITA Archery World Cup
Khairul participated in the 2011 FITA Archery World Cup Stage 4 in Shanghai ...
, who managed to get past him through a comfortable 6–0 challenge.
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Colombian male archers
Living people
Sportspeople from Córdoba Department
1991 births
Olympic archers for Colombia
Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
South American Games silver medalists for Colombia
South American Games bronze medalists for Colombia
Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Colombia
Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Colombia
South American Games medalists in archery
Competitors at the 2014 South American Games
Competitors at the 2018 South American Games
Competitors at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games
Archers at the 2019 Pan American Games
Pan American Games competitors for Colombia
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in archery
21st-century Colombian people
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