Reinier Estpinan Gómez (born December 5, 1982 in

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) is a Cuban sport shooter. He earned a

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in the men's rifle prone at the

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, and also represented his nation

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at the

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. Estpinan reached at the summit of his sporting career at the

, where he picked up a silver medal in the men's 50 m rifle prone with a total score of 696.5, finishing behind U.S. sport shooter Tom Tamas by almost a full point. At the

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, Estpinan qualified for the Cuban squad in the men's 50 m rifle prone by placing second from the Pan American Games. He scored 581 points to obtain a last spot out of forty-six shooters in the prelim stage, failing to advance further into the final. Estpinan also sought to compete for two more editions of the Olympic Games, but finished farther from the standings to achieve a qualifying place on the Cuban team. At the 2014 Championship of the Americas Tournament (CAT) in

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, Estpinan unleashed an astonishing target of 208.1 points to win a gold medal and secure an Olympic quota place for Cuba in men's rifle prone, hoping for his second Olympic bid after a twelve-year absence.

References

1982 births Living people Cuban male sport shooters Olympic shooters of Cuba Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2007 Pan American Games Shooters at the 2011 Pan American Games Sportspeople from Havana Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba Pan American Games medalists in shooting Shooters at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games 21st-century Cuban people {{Cuba-sportshooting-bio-stub