Led by the Olympic champion of the Olympic Games of London 2012, Leuris Pupo, the Cuban sport shooting will be represented by seven athletes to the Río de Janerio Olympic Games to be held from August 5th through the 21 st.

Leuris Pupo, who won the only title of that sport by Cuba in the history of the Olympic Games, is leading a squad that includes the also Olympic medalist of Beijing tournament as part of the 3 by 20 rifle event, Eglis Cruz, and Juan Miguel Rodríguez as a medalist from Athens in 2004 in the Skeet event, respectively.

The squad, which will be competing in nine related events out of the fifteen programed, is made up of Dianelys Pérez, Reinier Estopiñan and Alex Molerio, all of then compering through the rifle modality, along with Jorge Grau in the pistol one.

Cuba accumulates a golden medal and three bronze medals in Olympic Games. The first Cuban medalist was Roberto Castrillo in the Skeet event in the Olympic Games from 1980.

The sport shooting events in in Río de Janeiro Olympic Games where medals, will be disputed each single date, will be held from August 6th through 14th.