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Andrea Benelli

Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	28 June 1960 Florence, Italy
Height	173 centimetres (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	80 kilograms (180 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Shooting
Event(s)	Trap
Medal record[hide] Men's Shooting Olympic Games Gold 2004 Athens Skeet individual Bronze 1996 Atlanta Skeet individual World Championships Gold 1980 Moskow Skeet individual Gold 1987 Valencia Skeet individual Silver 1986 Suhl Skeet individual Bronze 1999 Tamper Skeet individual Gold 1981 Tucuman Skeet team Gold 1986 Suhl Skeet team Gold 1989 Montecatini Skeet team Gold 1993 Barcelona Skeet team Gold 1994 Fagnano Skeet team Gold 1999 Tampere Skeet team Gold 2006 Zagreb Skeet team Silver 1985 Montecatini Skeet team Silver 1987 Valencia Skeet team Silver 1995 Nicosia Skeet team Bronze 2003 Nicosia Skeet team Bronze 2005 Lonato Skeet team Mediterranean Games Silver 2005 Almería Skeet individual

Andrea Benelli (born June 28, 1960) is an Italian sports shooter and Olympic Champion. He won the gold medal in Skeet Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and also obtained a bronze medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics inAtlanta.^[1]

Benelli is two times World Champion in Skeet Shooting, from 1987 and 1990. He obtained a silver medal in 1986, and a bronze medal in 1999.^[2]

He owns and runs a Tourist Villa named Agriturismo Petrognano,^[3] located in Saint Ellero, Florence. It is a restored 18th-century farmhouse with a practice range behind it.

[edit]Olympic results

Event	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008
Skeet (mixed)	20th 145+49	25th 145	Not held
Skeet (men)	Not held		Bronze 123+24	5th 122+24	Gold 124+25	24th 113

[edit]References

[edit]External links

• Andrea Benelli at Sports-Reference.com


• Profile of Andrea Benelli at ISSF web site

[hide] v t e Olympic champions in men's skeet 1968: Yevgeni Petrov 1972: Konrad Wirnhier 1976: Josef Panáček 1980: Hans Kjeld Rasmussen 1984: Matthew Dryke 1988: Axel Wegner 1992: Zhang Shan1 1996: Ennio Falco 2000: Mykola Milchev 2004: Andrea Benelli 2008: Vincent Hancock 2012: Vincent Hancock 1 From 1972 until 1992, the event was open to women as well as men. Zhang is the only woman to have won it.