Patricia Yanira Rivas Miranda (born February 15, 1980 in

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) is a Salvadoran sport shooter. She won a bronze medal in the small-bore rifle prone at the 2001 American Continental Championships in

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, and was selected to compete for

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in air rifle shooting at the

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. Rivas trains for the national shooting team under longtime coach Reynaido Flores. Rivas qualified as a lone shooter for the Salvadoran squad in the women's 10 m air rifle at the

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. She had been granted an Olympic invitation for her country by ISSF and

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, having registered a minimum qualifying standard of 380 from her outside-final finish at the

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a year earlier. Rivas put up a more spectacular aim to set her career best of 393 points in the qualifying round after nailing a perfect 100 on the third 10-shot series, but her score was sufficient to land her in a two-way draw with India's

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for twentieth position.

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* 1980 births Living people Salvadoran female sport shooters Olympic shooters for El Salvador Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Pan American Games competitors for El Salvador Shooters at the 2003 Pan American Games Shooters at the 2007 Pan American Games Sportspeople from San Salvador 21st-century Salvadoran women {{ElSalvador-sportshooting-bio-stub