Decisive day in Dubai where the Fazza Para-Archery Tournament leaves the field to the qualification tournaments for the next Paralympics. After the morning’s preliminaries, Italy, already confident of bringing seven athletes to Paris, remains in the running for the women’s compound card with Giulia Pesci and Maria Andrea Virgilio who reached the semifinals. To be able to take the second pass at least one of the two must reach the final for gold, an objective already achieved by Daila Dameno in W1 thanks to the qualifying arrows.
To reach the semi-final in which she will challenge the American Wallace this afternoon, Giulia Pesci beat the Ukrainian Malykh 131-92 and the Irish Leonard 132-129. For Maria Andrea Virgilio the opponent will be the Bangladeshi archer Akter, first at the end of the qualifications, after victories with the Brazilian Nunes De Moraes 131-122 and the Iraqi Al-Murshedy 135-116.
THE OTHER BLUE RESULTS – The race towards the passes ends before reaching the semi-finals for all the other blues. In the men’s Olympics, the attack on the second pass by Roberto Airoldi, Davide Bettoni and Giuseppe Verzini failed in the first round, defeated respectively by the Latvian Jonasts 6-5 (9-7), 6-0 by the archer from the Czech Republic Chaloupsky and 6- 4 by Bangladeshi athlete Hossain.
In the men’s compound Giampaolo Cancelli beats the Canadian Watermann 143-132, but surrenders to the Kazakh Medvedev 141-140 in the round of 16; for Christian Seneca the defeat comes 143-132 with Dabil Alnaqbi (UAE).
The Azzurri men’s W1 race ends in the quarterfinals also due to a scoreboard that immediately pits Maurizio Panella and Francesco Tomaselli against each other with the former winning 137-113 but losing the subsequent clash with the Finnish Antonios. In both the compoud and the men’s W1, Italy therefore remains stuck with only one Paralympic card.
2024-03-06 13:39:01
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