Nathaniel "Tac" Padilla was a Filipino

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Career

He learned to use a pistol at age 9 and he was first known in the national sporting scene in 1976 when he became the junior champion of the rapid fire, center fire and standard pistol events at the Benito Juarez World Shooting Championships which was hosted in

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. He won five gold medals, all in the rapid pistol event at the

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. He won in the aforementioned event at the

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, and

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editions. He did not win any gold medal in the regional tournament for 16 years until he won at the rapid fire event at the

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in Laos. By 2012, Padilla has competed 17 times for the Philippines in the regional tournament. He did not participate in the

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and

2013 Southeast Asian Games The 2013 Southeast Asian Games ( my, ၂၀၁၃ ခုနှစ် အရှေ့တောင် အာရှ အားကစား ပြိုင်ပွဲ), officially known as the 27th Southeast Asian Games, or the 27th SEA Games, and comm ...

due to the non-contest of rapid fire pistol event in those two editions. By January 2010, he has won in nine Southeast Asian Shooting championships and achieved more than a dozen silver and bronze tournaments in other continental tournaments.

Personal life

His father was Olympic shooter

Tom Ong Mariano "Tom" Ong (October 1938 – 14 December 2016) was a Filipino Shooting sport, sports shooter. Ong, born in October 1938 in Malabon, competed for the Philippines at the Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1972 and Shooting at the 19 ...

and his siblings are Carolina, Kristine, Rose, Donald, and Jeffery. He is also the general manager of Spring Cooking Oil, his family's business. Padilla is married to Paola Montelibano with whom he has three children. His daughter Mica is following in his footsteps, and has joined the sport.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Padilla, Nathaniel Living people Filipino male sport shooters Shooters at the 2002 Asian Games Shooters at the 2006 Asian Games Shooters at the 2010 Asian Games SEA Games gold medalists for the Philippines SEA Games silver medalists for the Philippines SEA Games bronze medalists for the Philippines SEA Games medalists in shooting Year of birth missing (living people) Competitors at the 1979 SEA Games Competitors at the 1983 SEA Games Competitors at the 1987 SEA Games Competitors at the 1993 SEA Games Competitors at the 2005 SEA Games Competitors at the 2009 SEA Games Asian Games competitors for the Philippines 20th-century Filipino people 21st-century Filipino people