Custódio Ezequiel

{{short description|Portuguese sports shooter}}

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| fullname = Custódio Ribeiro Ezequiel

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| birth_place = Alcochete, Portugal

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| event = Trap (TR125)

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Custódio Ribeiro Ezequiel (born 28 March 1962 in Alcochete) is a Portuguese sport shooter.{{cite sports-reference|title = Custódio Ezequiel|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ez/custodio-ezequiel-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418024826/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ez/custodio-ezequiel-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 15 August 2015}} He was selected to compete for Portugal in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and also produced a career tally of three medals, two golds and one bronze, at the ISSF World Cup series.{{cite web|title=ISSF Profile – Custódio Ezequiel|url=http://www.issf-sports.org/shooters/shooter.ashx?personissfid=SHPORM2803196201|publisher=ISSF|accessdate=18 October 2014}} Ezequiel is a member of Vilamoura Shooting Club ({{langx|pt|Clube de Tiro de Vilamoura}}).{{cite news|first=Carlos|last=Mariano|title=Custódio Ezequiel: Confirmar nos Jogos um apuramento surpresa|trans-title=Custódio Ezequiel: Having confirmed for the Games was clearly a surprise|language=pt|url=http://www.record.xl.pt/modalidades/interior.aspx?content_id=41953|publisher=Record|date=2 August 2000|accessdate=15 August 2015}}

Ezequiel's Olympic debut came at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he marked 111 out of 125 targets to force a four-way tie with Italy's Rodolfo Vigano, Ireland's Derek Burnett, and United Arab Emirates' Ahmed Al Maktoum for eighteenth place in the men's trap.{{cite web|title=Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's Trap|url=http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sh/SHresults.pdf|format=PDF|work=Sydney 2000|publisher=LA84 Foundation|pages=70–71|accessdate=29 March 2015}}{{cite news|title=Diamond gives Australia men's trap medal|url=http://www.canoe.com/2000GamesShooting/sep17_dia.html|publisher=Canoe.ca|date=17 September 2000|accessdate=15 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923200235/http://www.canoe.com/2000GamesShooting/sep17_dia.html|archive-date=23 September 2015|url-status=dead}}

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Ezequiel qualified for his second Portuguese team in trap shooting, after having achieved a minimum qualifying score of 123 from his remarkable top finish at the ISSF World Cup meet in Granada, Spain a year earlier.{{cite web|title=Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification |url=http://www.majority-sport.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/home/msp/pages/docs/OQ04/Shooting_OQ_v2.pdf |format=PDF |publisher=Majority Sports |page=10 |accessdate=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722132244/http://www.majority-sport.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/home/msp/pages/docs/OQ04/Shooting_OQ_v2.pdf |archivedate=22 July 2015 }}{{cite news|title=Custódio Ezequiel: O tudo ou nada por um objectivo |trans-title=Custódio Ezequiel: It's all or nothing |language=pt |url=http://www.record.xl.pt/NewsGen/Edi%C3%A7%C3%A3o/RECORD/Modalidades/Outras/interior.aspx?content_id=205084 |publisher=Record |date=27 July 2004 |accessdate=15 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924150938/http://www.record.xl.pt/NewsGen/Edi%C3%A7%C3%A3o/RECORD/Modalidades/Outras/interior.aspx?content_id=205084 |archivedate=24 September 2015 }} Ezequiel fell out of his previous Olympic feat to finish in a four-way tie with Turkey's Oğuzhan Tüzün, India's Mansher Singh, and Singapore's Lee Wung Yew for twenty-first position, firing a matching score of 111.{{cite web|title=Shooting: Men's Trap Prelims|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics_2004/shooting/results/3532262.stm|work=Athens 2004|publisher=BBC Sport|date=15 August 2004|accessdate=31 January 2013}}{{cite news|title=Custódio Ezequiel afastado da final|trans-title=Custódio Ezequiel fails to enter the final|language=pt|url=http://www.jn.pt/PaginaInicial/Interior.aspx?content_id=455718|publisher=Jornal de Notícias|date=16 August 2004|accessdate=15 August 2015}}