Archery, Paralympic World Championships in Dubai: Maria Andrea Virgilio silver

Maria Andrea Virgilio climbs on the podium at the Para-Archery World Championships in Dubai. In the women’s individual compound competition, the Sicilian won the silver medal after winning bronze at the Tokyo Paralympics just a few months ago. In the very final, the blue loses against the Russian Tatiana Andrievskaya 143-140, in a match in which the opponent never leaves the yellow by imposing a frenzied pace to the clash. For Virgilio another great satisfaction after the Paralympics experienced as an absolute protagonist and the many important results at national level including the first historic success of a Paralympic archer at the Italian Targa Championships.

Silver Virgil

—

The blue starts better and goes straight to 29-27, but then starts the second set with a 7, losing the advantage. The Russian takes advantage of this by putting the turbo and placing three tens in a row to which the Sicilian manages to respond by remaining on the yellow with a 9 and a 10. After the second set then the game is overturned, 57-55 in favor of Andrievskaia. The final is a swing of emotions, in the third volley Virgilio finds constancy, who places two 9s and a 10, gnawing a point (85-84) from the opponent. Thus we arrive at the penultimate round of arrows in which the blue comes out once from the yellow with an 8 but then closes with two 10s in a row, the Russian responds with two 10s and a 9 that allow her to get to three arrows from the end with two points ahead (114-112). In the last volley Maria Andrea Virgilio fails in the comeback also because Andrievskaya continues to never leave the yellow and closes the accounts 143-140.

The teams

—

The two blue women competing in the women’s team competition of the Olympic arc win a place in the final for gold. Vincenza Petrilli and Veronica Floreno will face Russia (Barantseva-Sidorenko) on Sunday in the match that is worth the world title. For the two Italians, a clear 6-0 win against Thailand (Chatyotsakorn, Pattaweo) and 5-3 over India (Pooja, Pooja). Stefano Travisani and Giuseppe Verzini defeated 5-1 by Smirnov and Ziapev (Raf) after the 5-1 success over the Brazilian couple (Alves Rocha, Santos Silva) stops in the quarter-finals. On the other hand, South Korea (Koo, Park) eliminated the men’s Italy of the W1: Salvatore Demetric and Gabriele Ferrandi were overtaken by the Asians 134-124 in the quarter-finals.

Mixed Team

—

Vincenza Petrilli and Stefano Travisani are in the final for gold in the mixed team of the Olympic arc. The two Azzurri beat Turkey (Eroglu, Savas) 5-3 and repeated in the semifinals by winning the shoot off against Poland (Olszewska, Ciszek) 5-4 (18-16). On Sunday the challenge for the world title will be against Thailand (Pattaweo, Netsiri). The mixed doubles of W1 formed by Asia Pellizzari and Salvatore Demetric also gain access to the challenge for gold. The two Azzurri win the matches against South Korea (Kim, Park) 138-134 and the Czech Republic (Drahoninski, Brandtlova) 141-135 and head towards the match against the couple Krutova-Leonov (Raf). A day full of emotions that coach Willy Fuchsova comments as follows: “We are satisfied with this silver, even if it could have been better. Maria Andrea was good and let’s not forget that we have already achieved three other finals with the teams and we still have some chances in the game. individual. Well done for now, we will try to close this world championship in the best possible way “.