Diliana Méndez (born October 27, 1982, in

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, Distrito Capital) is a Venezuelan sport shooter. She is also a member of Orion Practical Shooting Club in Maracay, Aragua, and is coached and trained by Boris Loginov. Mendez represented

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at the

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, where she competed for two rifle shooting events. She placed forty-third out of forty-seven shooters in the women's 10 m air rifle, with a total score of 386 points. Nearly a week later, Mendez competed for her second event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, where she was able to shoot 192 targets in a prone position, and 188 each in standing and in kneeling, for a total score of 568 points, finishing only in thirty-ninth place.

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
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