Martin Senore (born 6 May 1968 in

Pretoria Pretoria () is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the Executive (government), executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa. Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends ...

) is a South African sport shooter. He has been selected to compete for

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in small-bore rifle shooting at the

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, and has achieved a total of two medals, a gold and a bronze, at two editions of the African Championships. Senore trains full-time at Eagle Eye Shooting Centre in

under his longtime coach Hubert Bichler. Senore qualified as a sole shooter for the South African squad in the men's 50 m rifle prone at the

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. He managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 597 to fill in the Olympic quota place for

, which was previously awarded to his brother Fred Senore, following his fourth-place feat at the

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meet in

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. Senore recorded a lowly 588 out of a possible 600 from his 60 shots to occupy a thirty-ninth position in a vast field of forty-six shooters, failing to advance to the final.

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