Amanda Haydee Mondol Cuellar (born January 10, 1965, in

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) is a Colombian sport shooter. She earned a silver medal in the air pistol at the

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, and was selected to compete for Colombia, as the oldest female athlete (aged 39), at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

. Mondol is also a full-time member of Target Shooting Club in her native

, under her personal coach Luis Boduero. Mondol qualified for the Colombian squad in pistol shooting at the

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, by having attained a mandatory Olympic standard of 373 and claiming the silver medal in the air pistol from the

. Mondol started off her Olympic run by firing 368 points to finish in a thirty-fifth place tie with three other shooters in the

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prelims. On her second event,

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, Mondol registered 293 points in three precision series and 284 in the rapid fire stage to accumulate an overall record of 577 and improve her feat with a thirteenth-place effort, narrowly missing out the final round by a three-point shortfall.

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1965 births Living people Colombian female sport shooters Olympic shooters for Colombia Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2003 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for Colombia Sportspeople from Bogotá Pan American Games silver medalists in shooting Shooters at the 2015 Pan American Games South American Games bronze medalists for Colombia South American Games medalists in shooting Competitors at the 2018 South American Games Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games 20th-century Colombian women 21st-century Colombian sportswomen Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Colombia Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Colombia Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Colombia Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in shooting Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games {{Colombia-sportshooting-bio-stub