There is glory also for theArco Club Riccionealongside the stars of the Italian national Olympic division, on the fourth and final day of the 49th Italian Indoor Archery Championshipswent on stage at the Rimini Fair (pavilions B5 and D5) with in total 1,300 archers to compete in compliance with the anti-Covid regulatory protocols. A Sunday entirely dedicated to the direct clashes of the Olympic divisionat the end of which the individual overall tricolors were awarded – won by Marco Morello e Tatiana Andreoli – and in teams: in the men’s team competition came the insight of the Perla Verde club, chaired by Raimondo Luponetti and organizer of the event in synergy with the FitArco Emilia Romagna committee, a pleasant novelty that is included in the register of gold of the event.
GOLD TWICE TO MARCO MORELLO – In the men’s category, in fact, the Air Force athlete Marco Morello won his second consecutive absolute tricolor by narrowly winning the “derby” in the final with the other airman Michele Frangilli: the Turin native prevailed in the play-off with scores of 30- 29, 29-29, 29-30, 29-28, 28-28, with the decisive arrow rewarding the reigning champion with a 10 over the more expert archer’s 7.
“It was a good fight, with a heart-pounding epilogue, I missed the last arrow and Michele returned the favor to me in the shoot-off. I have to smooth out these ups and downs a bit, even in qualifying the last volley wasn’t flawless. In any case, I am happy to have repeated last year’s success. A full and eventful season awaits us, the goal will be to qualify for as many events as possible”the immediate words of the Piedmontese athlete who reached the final after beating Edoardo Tuci 7-3 in the round of 16, Matteo Canovai in the quarter-finals after the play-off 6-5 (10*-10) and Yuri Belli 6-2 in the semi-final.
For his part, the 45-year-old athlete from Gallarate, team gold at the 2012 London Olympics (with Marco Galiazzo and Mauro Nespoli) and nine times overall tricolor in his career, had reached the final after overcoming Antonio Giuffrida 6-4 in the round of 16, having his “derby” with Federico Musolesi in the quarter-finals in the play-off 6-5 (10-9) and in the semi-final having stopped Massimiliano Mandia 6-4.
In this race, worth mentioning is the ninth place of Francesco Gregori (Arco Club Riccione), in the junior national team, stopped in the round of 16 by the Italian Federico Musolesi.
THE BRONZE TO BELLI – The final for bronze sees the Emilian Yuri Belli (Arcieri Aquila Bianca Modena) prevail 6-4 over Massimiliano Mandia (Fiamme Azzurre), who had won the Senior class title on Saturday. The representative of the Penitentiary Police stopped the other Italian national Mauro Nespoli (Aeronautica Militare), silver medalist at Tokyo 2020, in the quarterfinals (6-0).
THIRD TRICOLOR FOR TATIANA ANDREOLI – In the women’s competition, Fiamme Oro archer Tatiana Andreoli won her third indoor tricolor in her career after those in 2018 and 2020, prevailing 7-3 in the final match over Vanessa Landi (Aeronautica Militare). The partial sets on the edge of balance reward the 23-year-old from Turin from Venaria Reale, gold at the European Games in Minsk 2019, who maintains her precision high (30-29, 29-29, 30-28, 28-30, 29- 27) overtaking her national teammate from Grosseto.
“I always like to win on this pitch, I’m fond of it now – the comment of Andreoli – and when I don’t get to the end it bothers me a bit. First step for an important 2022? I prefer not to say it, every time I go too far it ends badly…”.
The Piedmontese beat Daniela Pellegrini (Arcieri Rimini-Seven Arrows) 7-3 in the round of 16, Ginevra Landi 6-2 in the quarter-finals and Tanya Giada Giaccheri in the semi-final with the same score. To reach the final Vanessa Landi defeated Beatrice Prandini 6-0 in the round of 16 and Nicole Passarella in the quarter-finals (in the round of 16 she had eliminated the Italian Lucilla Boari, bronze at the Tokyo Games), then in the semi-final 6-4 the junior Roberta Di Francis.
DI FRANCESCO COMPLETES THE PODIUM – The final saw the protagonist of the young Arcieri Abruzzesi team, who after the Junior class title won on Saturday had the satisfaction of putting the bronze around her neck by beating Tanya Giaccheri 7-1.
TEAM OVERALLS: THE FIRST TIME IN RICCIONE – As regards the Italian absolute team titles in the men’s category, the trio ofArco Club Riccione (Lorenzo De Petra, Emanuele Marcello Giacchi, Francesco Gregori) prevailing 5-3, with scores of 55-58, 57-56, 58-56, 55-55 over the Venetian Arcieri Decumanus Maximus (Guerra, Lo Porto, Michieletto), bronze medal for the Arcieri Voghera (Nespoli, Paoletta, Ralli).
“Winning at home is even better, also because we didn’t expect it. A title that we want to dedicate to the memory of Andrea Bertolino, coach and soul of our club who left us prematurely last summer”he is keen to underline Gregory. “I really didn’t think we could excel”he admits From Petra. “I believed in it a little and the fact of having won the first match gave us further confidence and being on the central court was an additional stimulus. We showed our determination and managed to sign this undertaking”he comments Jacketswithout hiding the emotion.
The Italian women’s team title goes again to Arcieri Torrevecchia (D’Errico, Mandia, Rebagliati), who narrowly defeated Iuvenilia (Aloisi, Andreoli, Degani) 5-4 in the shoot-off (28-27). , with the Emilians from Castenaso (Di Pasquale, Franceschelli, Passarella) on the third step of the podium.
2022-02-27 08:00:00
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