Eliécer Pérez (born October 14, 1972) is a Cuban sport shooter. He won a silver medal for the rifle three positions at the

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. At age thirty-four, Perez made his official debut for the

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, where he competed for all three rifle shooting events. In his first event,

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, Perez was able to hit a total of 585 points within six attempts, finishing forty-fourth in the qualifying rounds. Few days later, he placed fifty-second in the 50 m rifle prone, by one target behind Oman's Dadallah Al-Bulushi from the final attempt, with a total score of 582 points. In his third and last event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, Perez was able to shoot 394 targets in a prone position, 373 in standing, and 367 in kneeling, for a total score of 1,134 points, finishing only in forty-seventh place.

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NBC Olympics Profile
1972 births Living people Cuban male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Cuba Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba Pan American Games medalists in shooting Shooters at the 2007 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games 21st-century Cuban people {{Cuba-sportshooting-bio-stub