Luiz Gustavo Trainini (born 14 January 1978, in

Canoas Canoas (), which earned city status in 1939, is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. With more than 340,000 inhabitants, it is part of the Porto Alegre conurbation and has the second highest GDP in the state. It is also th ...

) is an athlete from

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, who competes in

archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

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Trainini finished his ranking round with a total of 610 points, which gave him the 61st seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced

Park Kyung-Mo Park Kyung-mo (; born August 15, 1975) is an archer from South Korea. He has won gold medals at the three major World Archery Federation events ( Olympics, World Archery Championships and World Cup finals) and is a former ...

in the first round. Park won the match by 116-99 and Trainini was eliminated. Park would go on to win the silver medal in the tournament.Athlete biography: Luiz Trainini
beijing2008.cn, ret: 19 August 2008

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1978 births Living people Brazilian male archers Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2011 Pan American Games Olympic archers for Brazil Sportspeople from Rio Grande do Sul People from Canoas Pan American Games competitors for Brazil 21st-century Brazilian people {{Brazil-archery-bio-stub