Isidro Lorenzo González (born 8 March 1958 in

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, Zamora) is a Spanish sport shooter. He was selected to compete for

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as a 46-year-old at the

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, and eventually won a bronze medal in free pistol shooting at the

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meet in Guangzhou, China. Lorenzo also trains under head coach Cezary Staniszewski for twelve years as a full-fledged member of the Spanish pistol shooting team. Lorenzo qualified for the Spanish team, as one of the oldest athletes (aged 46), in pistol shooting at the

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. He managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 560 to gain an Olympic quota place for

in the free pistol, following his outside-final finish at the

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meet in Zagreb, Croatia one year earlier. Lorenzo got off to a shaky start on the first day of the Games by placing further down at a distant forty-second in the

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with a total of 565, bettering just five points from his entry standard. Three days after an unsteady air pistol feat, Lorenzo nailed a fantastic, fifth-seeded score at 562 to reach the eight-man final in the

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, before eventually dropping to last with the lowest score of the field at 90.0 for a total of 652.0 points.

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* * * 1958 births Living people Spanish male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Spain Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from the Province of Zamora {{Spain-sportshooting-bio-stub