Luisa Cristina del Rosario Maida Leiva (born October 7, 1979 in

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) is a Salvadoran sport shooter. She won two medals, silver and bronze, for the 10 and 25 m pistol events at the

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. Maida made her official debut for the

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, where she placed thirty-sixth in the

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, and forty-first in the

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, with total scores of 368 and 557 points, respectively. Eight years later, Maida qualified for her second Olympic team as a 29-year-old. At the

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she competed in two pistol shooting events, placing thirty-fourth out of forty-four shooters in the women's 10 m air pistol by two points ahead of Czech Republic's

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, with a total score of 375 targets. Three days later, Maida reached the final of the women's 25 m pistol, as the first female Latin American sport shooter, after scoring a total of 582 targets (292 in the precision stage and 290 in the rapid fire) from the qualifying rounds. Unfortunately, she finished only in eighth place by 3.7 points behind Thailand's

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, with a total score of 774.0 targets (192.0 in the final).

Olympic results

References

External links

NBC 2008 Olympics profile
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