María del Pilar Fernández Julián (born December 28, 1962 in

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) is a Spanish sport shooter. Fernandez had won a total of nine medals (one gold, four silver and four bronze) in both air and sport pistol at the

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series. Fernandez made her official debut for the

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, representing the host nation

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. She achieved a sixth-place finish in the 10 m air pistol, and twelfth in the 25 m pistol, accumulating scores of 478.5 and 576 points, respectively. Fernandez also competed at the

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, and

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, but she neither reached the final round, nor claimed an Olympic medal. Sixteen years after competing in her first Olympics, Fernandez qualified for her fifth Spanish team, as a 46-year-old, at the

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, by placing second in the air pistol from the second meet of the

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series in Resende, Rio de Janeiro,

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, with a score of 783.2 points. She placed twenty-fifth out of forty-four shooters in the women's 10 m air pistol by one point behind Mongolian-born German shooter and five-time Olympian

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from the final attempt, with a total score of 379 targets. Three days later, Fernandez competed for her second event, 25 m pistol, where she was able to shoot 291 targets in the precision stage, and 278 in the rapid fire, for a total score of 569 points, finishing only in thirty-sixth place.

Olympic results

References

External links

NBC 2008 Olympics profile
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