(ANSA) – MEDELLIN, 25 JUL – Mauro Nespoli is silver in the World Cup in Medellin. The blue of archery, Olympic gold in the team competition in London 2012, yesterday night beat Spaniard Miguel Alvarino Garcia 7-1 in the semifinals, but then surrendered in the final, still 7-1 but this time against him, at the number 1 in the world, the South Korean Kim Woojin, who is also the holder of the world record on 72 arrows achieved in Rio 2016, twice Olympic team gold.
However, it is an important result for the Italian, who already before taking the field had won the pass for the World Cup finals scheduled for 15 and 16 October in Mexico, in Tlaxcala. For him it will be the sixth World Cup final after those of Paris 2013, Rome 2017, Samsun 2018, Moscow 2019 and Yankton 2021.
“I am satisfied with what has been done here in Medellin – Nespoli commented -. As in Tokyo, the qualification was not the best but it certainly served to give a shock in view of the matches. From the first to the last fight I kept an average very high, the one I had set myself as a seasonal goal.
In the round of 16 against Kim Je Deok I realized how confident I was with myself, with the mind and with the shot and this allowed me to shoot both the semifinal and the final with great confidence. The scores made to win against Alvarino are the same with which Kim Woo Jin then beat me.
They were both matches worthy of a World Cup “. (ANSA).
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