Franco Piero Donato ( ar, فرانكو بيرو دوناتو; born September 8, 1981, in
Cairo
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) is an Egyptian skeet sport shooter. Donato represented
Egypt
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at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, where he competed in the
men's skeet shooting. He finished only in thirty-sixth place by one point ahead of Qatar's
Rashid Hamad from the final attempt, for a total score of 106 targets.
He also participated in the Rio 2016 Olympics
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20130506172727/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/947/sp2.htm
http://www.shooting.by/events/2009/n_090509.html
External links
NBC Olympics Profile
Living people
1981 births
Egyptian male sport shooters
Skeet shooters
Olympic shooters for Egypt
Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Cairo
Egyptian people of Italian descent
21st-century Egyptian people
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