Nationality Kuwait Height 1.76 m Sport Shooting Weight 120 kg | Club Kuwait Shooting Club Events Olympic trap Name Naser Al-Meqlad | |
Born 12 August 1982 (age 41) ( 1982-08-12 ) Kuwait City | ||
Naser Al-Meqlad (also Naser Meqlad, Arabic: ناصر المقلد; born August 12, 1982 in Kuwait City) is a Kuwaiti sport shooter. He won two gold medals for the individual trap shooting at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, and at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.
At age twenty-one, Meqlad made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he finished fourteenth out of thirty-five shooters in the qualifying rounds of the men's trap, with a score of 117 points, tying his position with five other shooters, including Germany's Karsten Bindrich.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Meqlad competed for the second time in men's trap shooting, where was able to fire 71 targets on the first day, and 44 on the second day, for a total score of 115 points, finishing only in eighteenth place.