Julián Gutiérrez made history and qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

The plane of the Argentine delegation to Paris 2024 Olympic Games added a new passenger: Giuliano Gutiérrez He qualified thanks to the gold medal in the 10 meter compressed air rifle competition of the XIV American Rifle and Pistol Championship which takes place at the Tiro Federal Argentino, in the city of Buenos Aires.

The 23 year old young man, who brought joy to his province by becoming the first Olympic catamaranhe won the final with a score of 249.5, ahead of the Mexican Edson Ramirez and the American TImothy Sherryand got the only place offered by the pre-Olympic.

With your classification, the national shooting will have three representativesbecause there will also be Olympians in Paris Fernanda Russo AND Federico Gil. Precisely, Gutiérrez will be able to participate in mixed mode with Russo; In that test five years ago, at the Pan American Games in Lima, they won gold.

“It is with great pride that I tell you that Julián Gutiérrez is the first Catamarca to obtain a place in the Olympic Games! He excels in sport shooting and will be our representative in the 2024 edition of Paris. Congratulations!”, recognized the governor of Catamarca, Raúl Jalilon your Facebook account.

In May 2018, the Catamarcan won the silver medal in the World Junior Championship held in Benning, USA, and in November, during the American Championship in Guadalajara he won the place for Lima 2019 by finishing tenth.

Right there, Gutiérrez finished third in the men’s 10-meter air rifle. “Giving him a medal at my first Pan American Games is very nice. Now we have to fight for more. Maybe next time I can get a place,” said the man from Catamarca after winning the bronze. Five years later, he did.

The Gutiérrez house, with a shooting range

Julián had known shooting since he was very young. He began practicing it with his brother Andrés and under the guidance of his father Marcelo, who became his coach. For this reason it didn’t take them long to set up a shooting range in their home, in a room 12 meters by 4 meters wide. “The first target we used was a case of wine, and we hit it easily”he confessed in an interview with La Nación.

“I always trained at home because we felt good in that environment, that environment of father and son and I quite liked the fact that no one from the outside made a judgement, because being a psychological sport, everything they tell you from the outside it can affect you. Being a psychological sport, everything they tell you from the outside can influence you,” he said a few years ago, before becoming the first Olympic native of Catamarca.