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 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 ...

, 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 The 2014 South American Games was a multi-sport event that took place in Santiago, Chile. It was the 10th edition of the ODESUR South American Games. Santiago hosted this event for the second time, the first being in 1986. Most of the events took ...

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

, Chile. Pila was selected to compete for Colombia in the men's individual recurve at the

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

, 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 {{Colombia-archery-bio-stub