Jorge Jottar
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Jorge Jottar (26 June 1929 – 1 January 2014) was a Chilean
Biography
He was born on 26 June 1929, in the commune of Requínoa, Caupolicán department, province of Colchagua, to Lebanese immigrants.[2][3] He studied at the O'Higgins Institute in Rancagua, and subsequently devoted himself to the fruit trade. He married Teresa Nasrallah, with whom he had 7 children, one of them being Patricio Jottar current CEO of Compañía de Cervecerías Unidas (CCU), Chile's biggest brewery.[4] He began practicing skeet shooting in 1961.
He won second place in Olympic skeet shooting at the 1965 World Shotgun Championships held in November 1965 at the Club de Lo Curro, Santiago, Chile. On the occasion he obtained a mark of 196 cymbals of 200, being only surpassed by the German Konrad Wirnhier, who achieved the 199 / 200.5 mark. He also integrated the Chilean skeet shooting team, along with Ángel Marentis, Enrique Núñez and Gilberto Navarro, who achieved second place in that category.
The following year, he participated in the
He subsequently participated in the skeet event at the 1968 Summer Olympics where he won 7th place among 52 participants, 7 obtaining an Olympic diploma.[5]
He died on 1 January 2014 from
References
- ^ "LOS IMPACTOS DEL CAZADOR DE TÓRTOLAS". Chile.com. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014.
- ^ "Jorge Jottar Mereb (1929-2014) - Find A Grave..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ "Tragedia en el Líbano, bajo la mirada de Nicole Nehme, Sofía Jottar, Fernando Arab y Pablo Zalaquett | GDA – Grupo de Diarios América" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ "Jorge Jottar Mereb". Requipersonajes.cl.
- ^ "Jorge Jottar". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
- ^ Fallece Jorge Jottar, el chileno campeón mundial de tiro skeet (in Spanish)
External links
- Jorge Jottar at ISSF
- Jorge Jottar at Olympedia
