Attila Solti
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| Full name | Attila Solti | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Hungary Guatemala
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2 December 1966 Budapest, Hungary |
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| Residence | Guatemala City, Guatemala | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 10 m running target (10RT) 50 m running target (50RT) |
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| Club | Újpesti TE (HUN) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Attila Solti (born 2 December 1966 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-Guatemalan sport shooter. Before his change of domicile to Guatemala, Solti had an extensive competitive career for his native Hungary in shooting. He won a total of twenty-nine medals in a major international competition, including two golds in both 10 and 50 m running target at World Championships and had set two world records in just a single season.
When he became a Guatemalan citizen in December 1992, Solti added two more golds to his career medal tally in the 10 m running target at the Pan American Games (1995 and 1999). Solti also competed in five editions of the Olympic Games under two different banners (Hungary in 1988 and 1992, and Guatemala in 1996 to 2004), and had been close to an Olympic medal in 1996 (finishing eighth in the running target). As the most experienced athlete of the Guatemalan team, Solti was also duly honored to carry the nation's flag twice in the opening ceremonies.
Solti began shooting at the age of fifteen as a resident athlete of Újpesti Sports Academy (Hungarian: Újpesti Torna Egylet, ÚTE) in his native Budapest. Solti competed internationally for Hungary in 1986, when he set a junior world record of 588 in the 50 m running target at the European Championships, and then claimed his first ever Worlds title in Suhl, East Germany few months later. Solti made his first ever Hungarian team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, finishing sixth in his only 50 m running target stint with a score of 588.
In 1989, Solti was able to back up his Olympic feat by smashing a new running target record at 671.6 to successfully attain his second gold medal at the World Championships in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, erasing 7.3 points off his standard previously set at the World Cup meet in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The 1990 and 1991 season witnessed the exceptional dominance of Solti in the international shooting scene, as he continued to yield more medals to his career tally, including three golds at the World Cup series and a bronze in his pet event at the Worlds.
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