Ricardo Andrés Soto Pedraza (born 20 October 1999) is a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

an recurve

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In mo ...

from Concepción. In 2009, he moved to

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. He competed in the archery event at the

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Career

2016 Summer Olympics

At the

Soto finished his ranking round with a total of 675 points, which gave him the 13th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Anton Prylepau in the Round of 64, he won the match 5(29)–5(27). He played Bernardo Oliveira in the Round of 32, winning the match 7–1. In the Round of 16 he played

Sjef van den Berg Sjef van den Berg (born 14 April 1995) is a retired Dutch competitive archer. He has won a total of two medals (a silver in the individual recurve and a bronze for the Dutch team) at the 2015 European Games, and eventually finished fourth in th ...

, losing the match 5–6.

Olympic results

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* Chilean male archers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 1999 births Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for Chile South American Games silver medalists for Chile South American Games medalists in archery Competitors at the 2018 South American Games Competitors at the 2022 South American Games Archers at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games medalists in archery Pan American Games silver medalists for Chile Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games People from Concepción, Chile 21st-century Chilean people {{Chile-sport-bio-stub