page_title: Trinidad and Tobago at the 2008 Summer Olympics
section_title: Shooting
hierarchical_section_title: Trinidad and Tobago at the 2008 Summer Olympics / Shooting
caption_attribution_description: English: The Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field. English: Le stand de tir aux pigeons d'argile de Pékin, construit pour les jeux olympiques de 2008, selon les normes du règlement olympique (qui impose encore les munitions à grenaille de plomb, bien qu'étant beaucoup plus toxiques et polluantes que celles à grenailles d'acier).
context_page_description: Trinidad and Tobago sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Its participation in the Beijing games marked its eighteenth Olympic appearance and fifteenth Summer Olympic appearance since its debut at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, excluding its joint participation with Jamaica and Barbados in 1960 as the West Indies Federation. With 28 athletes, more Trinidadians had competed at the Olympics than in any other single Olympic games in its history before Beijing. Athletes representing Trinidad and Tobago advanced past the preliminary or qualification rounds in twelve events and reached the final rounds in four of those events. Of those four events, silver medals were won in the men's 100 meters and in the men's 4x100 meters relay. The latter was upgraded to gold due to one member of the quartet that crossed the line first, Nesta Carter, testing positive for a banned substance, resulting in their disqualification. The nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony that year was swimmer and Athens medalist George Bovell.
context_section_description: Then 38-year-old sharpshooter Roger Daniel, a two-time Olympian (participating in the men's air pistol 10 meters and the men's free pistol 50 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens) and participant in the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force, represented Trinidad and Tobago as its only shooter in Beijing by taking part in the men's air pistol 10 meters. In the first round, Daniel scored 98 points; in the second round, 95; in the third, 92; in the fourth, 94; in the fifth, 96; and the sixth and final, 96. Daniel tied four other athletes for the third greatest number of points in the first round, and received fewest  points in the third round of any participating athlete. Overall, during the August 9 course of events, Daniel earned 571 points, ranking 37th out of the 49 participating athletes. The gold medalist in the event, China's Pang Wei, received 688.2 points, while the last place finalist Edirisinghe Senanayake of Sri Lanka received 561 points.
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caption: The Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field, where Daniel competed in his event.
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