Luisa Maida

Luisa Maida

Personal information
Full name	Luisa Cristina del Rosario Maida Leiva
Nationality	El Salvador
Born	(1979-10-07) 7 October 1979 (age 45) San Salvador, El Salvador
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport	Shooting
Event(s)	10 m air pistol (AP40) 25 m pistol (SP)
Coached by	Stan Martin[1]
Medal record Women's shooting Representing  El Salvador Pan American Games 2007 Rio de Janeiro AP40 2007 Rio de Janeiro SP

Luisa Cristina del Rosario Maida Leiva (born October 7, 1979 in San Salvador) is a Salvadoran sport shooter.^[2] She won two medals, silver and bronze, for the 10 and 25 m pistol events at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[1][3]

Maida made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed thirty-sixth in the 10 m air pistol, and forty-first in the 25 m pistol, with total scores of 368 and 557 points, respectively.

Eight years later, Maida qualified for her second Olympic team as a 29-year-old. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she competed in two pistol shooting events, placing thirty-fourth out of forty-four shooters in the women's 10 m air pistol by two points ahead of Czech Republic's Michaela Musilová, with a total score of 375 targets.^[4] Three days later, Maida reached the final of the women's 25 m pistol, as the first female Latin American sport shooter, after scoring a total of 582 targets (292 in the precision stage and 290 in the rapid fire) from the qualifying rounds.^[5] However, she only finished in the eighth place by 3.7 points behind Thailand's Tanyaporn Prucksakorn, with a total score of 774 targets (192 in the final).^[6][7]

Olympic results

Event	2000	2008
25 metre pistol	41st 557	8th 582+192.0
10 metre air pistol	36th 368	34th 557

References

1. "ISSF Profile – Luisa Maida". ISSF. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Luisa Maida". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
3. "Chao top shooter at Pan Am Games". CBC Sports. 16 July 2007. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
4. "Women's 10m Air Pistol Qualification". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
5. "Women's 25m Pistol Qualification". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
6. "Women's 25m Pistol Final". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
7. "Salvadorian shooter is first Latin American woman in shooting final". Xinhua News Agency. 14 August 2008. Archived from the original on August 24, 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2013.

External links

• NBC 2008 Olympics profile