István Péni (born 14 February 1997) is a Hungarian

sport shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such a ...

. He won a bronze medal in boys' 10 m air rifle shooting, and also shared a top prize with Egypt's Hadir Mekhimar in the mixed international rifle team at the

2014 Summer Youth Olympics The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports ...

Nanjing, China Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...

. Peni is also a member of the shooting team at Újpesti Sports Club ( hu, Újpesti Torna Egylet) in

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

under his personal coach József Tóth and Edit Kissné Oroszi. Peni made his first Olympic team for Hungary as a 17-year-old at the

, where he achieved a total of two medals in shooting: a gold and a bronze. In his first event, boys' 10 m air rifle, Peni shot a decent score of 183.5 to pick up the bronze medal in the final round, finishing more than twenty-five points behind eventual Youth Olympic champion

Yang Haoran Yang Haoran (; born 22 February 1996) is a Chinese sport shooter. He has collected a career tally of fourteen medals (nine golds and five silver) and broke eight world junior records in air rifle shooting at major international competitions, spa ...

. Two days later, Peni and his international partner Hadir Mekhimad of Egypt triumphed the Latin American duo made up of Argentina's Fernanda Russo and Mexico's José Santos Valdés 10–2 for the gold in the mixed rifle team competition.

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Nanjing 2014 Profile
1997 births Living people Hungarian male sport shooters Shooters at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Sport shooters from Budapest Shooters at the 2015 European Games Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic shooters for Hungary ISSF rifle shooters Shooters at the 2019 European Games European Games bronze medalists for Hungary European Games medalists in shooting Shooters at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Hungarian people Shooters at the 2023 European Games European Games gold medalists for Hungary {{Hungary-sportshooting-bio-stub