Archery, Paralympic World Championships, everything is ready for Dubai: the squad

Once the indoor para-archery tricolors of Macerata have been archived, the Paralympic National Team is already projected to the first international event of the season that will put almost all the participants to the test: from 19 to 27 February the Championships will be held in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Outdoor World Cup. For the first time the outdoor world championship will be held while in our hemisphere it is the middle of winter, but the technical staff of the Azzurri has done everything possible to get the Azzurri prepared for this appointment.

The preparation

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After returning from Tokyo, in fact, all the rallies that have been organized to date have always been held to train Italian archers over long distances. Outside of the technical meetings, those who had the opportunity continued to shoot at 70 meters with the recurve or at 50 meters for the compounds and W1, alternating training on the 18 meters indoors only in view of the Italian championships held last end. week in the Marche region and, some of them, also in order not to lose the race pace by participating in the indoor competitions that are held during the weekends as early as October. Overall, another good performance is expected from the group that could bode well for future qualifying matches for Paris 2024.

The summoned

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In the open Olympic arc there will be silver medalists in the mixed team in Tokyo Stefano Travisani and Elisabetta Mijno delle Fiamme Azzurre, the silver medalist Enza Petrilli, who recently moved to the Fiamme Oro, together with Giuseppe Verzini (Arcieri Cormons) and Veronica Floreno (Dyamond Archery Palermo). In the compound open space for the owners in Japan Matteo Bonacina (Archers of the Alps), Giampaolo Cancelli (Archers Voghera), the standard bearers of the Blue Flames Eleonora Sarti and the bronze medal Maria Andrea Virgilio, with Giulia Pesci (Arcieri Ardivestra), while in the W1 there will be Asia Pellizzari (Arcieri del Castello), who made his debut in Tokyo, together with Gabriele Ferrandi (Arcieri Ardivestra) and Salvatore Demetric (Dyamond Archery Palermo). The athletes in the Visually Impaired 1 category, with Matteo Panariello and Visaually Impaired 2/3, with Giovanni Maria Vaccaro (Dyamond Archery Palermo ) and Daniele Piran (Arco Club Bolzano Vicentino). Following the Azzurri there will be the federal vice president and head of mission, Sante Spigarelli, the technical manager, Guglielmo Fuchsova, with the coaches Antonio Tosco and Fabio Fuchsova, the psychologist Gianni Bonas, the physiotherapist Chiara Barbi and the guide for the VI Adriano Peruffo. It is important to note that this world championship will not award the Paralympic passes for Paris 2024, which will be up for grabs only in 2023 and 2024, while in the Last World Cup, that of 2019 in the Netherlands which represented the first qualifying round for the 2020 Paralympics, the Azzurri won 7 passes for Tokyo as well as 4 world medals: the mixed silver team of Mijno and Travisani, the mixed bronze team of Virgilio and Simonelli, the silver of Vaccaro among the blind and the bronze of the curved women’s team.