Felipe Almeida Wu
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Full name | Felipe Almeida Wu |
Nationality | ![]() |
Born | São Paulo, Brazil |
11 June 1992
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Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Shooting |
Event(s) | 10 m air pistol (AP60) 50 m pistol (FP) |
Medal record
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Felipe Almeida Wu (born June 11, 1992 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian sport shooter.[1]
Career
He won a silver medal in the boys' air pistol at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, and then added the gold to his career hardware on his senior debut at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.[2]
Wu made his international shooting debut, as an eighteen-year-old, at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. There, he picked up the silver medal with a total score of 676.0 in the boys' air pistol, finishing closely behind Ukrainian shooter and 2012 Olympian Denys Kushnirov by three tenths of a point margin.[3]
Despite having missed out his bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Wu managed to improve his lifetime best of 201.8 points for the final meet record and his first senior title in the men's air pistol at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada.[2][4] Following his gold medal victory at the Games, Wu has occupied one of the nine places entrusted to the host nation's squad and is expected to compete for Brazil at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[2][5]
Felipe Wu won gold medal in the men's air pistol in Bangkok, Thailand, first stage of 2016 ISSF World Cup.[6]
References
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External links
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- 1992 births
- Living people
- Brazilian male sport shooters
- Shooters at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
- Shooters at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Sportspeople from São Paulo (city)
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
- South American sport shooting biography stubs
- Brazilian sportspeople stubs