Giovanni Cernogoraz (born 27 December 1982) is a

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n sports shooter. Competing in shotgun events, he won the Olympic gold medal in men's

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at the London

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. He was elected for Croatian Sportsman of the year by ''

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'' in 2012.

Career

Cernogoraz started with the sport at an early age, initially becoming interested in it through hunting. He is a member of the Gord sports club based in Velika Gorica and was named Velika Gorica Sportsman of the Year in 2011. After narrowly missing

2004 Olympic Games The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

in Athens and

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in Beijing, Cernogoraz managed to qualify for

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after winning the

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in Beijing in 2011. His next notable achievement was winning a gold medal in team trap along with his national team teammates, brothers Anton and Josip Glasnović, and a bronze in individual trap at the 2012

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in Larnaca. At the 2012 Olympics he managed to qualify for the Olympic final in sixth place with score of 122. In the final, Cernogoraz scored 24 out of a possible 25, with a total score of 146, equalling the Olympic record and securing a shoot-off for the gold. In the shoot-off Cernogoraz went on to defeat Italy's

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6–5 to win gold. It was Croatia's first Olympic gold and only the second shooting sports medal ever won in its entire Olympic history. It was also the first Olympic gold won by an athlete from

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after

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's boxing gold in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Personal life

Cernogoraz lives in the town of Novigrad in

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, where he works as a waiter at his father's restaurant. Cernogoraz is an Istrian Italian and holds an Italian passport. He is married and has two children. Cernogoraz is a Roman Catholic.

Olympic results

References

External links

Profile
at the International Shooting Sport Federation website
"Priča o prvaku: Novi heroj nacije vlasnik prvog hrvatskog streljačkog zlata u povijesti olimpizma"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cernogoraz, Giovanni 1982 births Living people Croatian male sport shooters Olympic shooters of Croatia Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Croatia Trap and double trap shooters Olympic medalists in shooting Sportspeople from Koper Istrian Italian people Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Croatia Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in shooting European Games competitors for Croatia Shooters at the 2019 European Games Croatian Roman Catholics 21st-century Croatian people