The 36th Italian Indoor Para-Archery Championship concluded at the PalaCattani in Faenza. The event organized by the Faenza Archers with the support of the Fitarco Emilia Romagna Regional Committee and other companies in the Region, after yesterday’s qualification and preliminaries, today saw the assignment of the overall Italian titles to teams and individuals.
VISUALLY IMPAIRED – In the individual, the first finals of the day rewarded the athletes in the Visually Impaired category. In the Visually Impaired 1, the category dedicated to the blind, the athlete from the Sagitta Arcieri Pesaro, Giordano Cardellini who comes from behind to beat the defending champion 6-2 Davide Chiricò (Dyamond Archery Palermo). After losing the first volley, down 0-2, the athlete from the Marche managed to turn the match around by winning the next 3 sets consecutively. Concluding the podium with third place Loredana Ruisi (Milan Blind) who yesterday had been overcome in the semi-final by the new Italian champion Cardellini 6-4.
Super performance for the European champion and outgoing Italian champion Daniele Piran (Arco Club Bolzano Vicentino) capable of taking home the fourth overall indoor title after those won in 2019, 2020 and 2022. The Italian athlete, bronze medal at the last world championships in Dubai, overcame Ivan Nesossi (Milan Blind People) with a peremptory 6-0 result of the following partials: 30-19, 28-20 and 26-19. Despite an excellent performance, the Lombard athlete was therefore forced to settle for silver. Bronze medal for Giovanni Maria Vaccaro (Diamond Archery Palermo)who yesterday had been overcome in the semi-final by Nesossi with a result of 7-3.
W1 – In the women’s W1 category the Italian title was awarded at the end of a head-to-head match resolved in a play-off, with Dayla Dameno who wrote his name for the first time in the roll of honor of the Paralympic indoor tricolors. The athlete of Valcamonica Disabled Sports Centre she also has a successful past in other disciplines, having won a silver and a bronze in skiing at the 2006 Turin Winter Paralympics, as well as having been a starter in swimming at the 2004 Athens Games. Now she has managed to achieve an important result in shooting too with the bow since she managed to get the better of the young but already winning one Asia Pellizzari (Castle Archers) that she had won the Italian title in 2019. The Italian had the chance to close the match in the fifth volley with the last arrow but missed the KO shot, allowing Dameno to reach 136-136 and therefore to the shoot -off, where Dameno hit the 9, while Pellizzari responded with an 8 which handed the title to her opponent. Bronze medal for Stefania Giacometti (Disabled Sports Club Valcamonica).
In the men’s first overall title also for Paolo Tonon (Castle Archers) which he managed to get the better of Daniele Cassiani (Archers of the Lordship) for 141-135. At a disadvantage in the first volley, the Italian athlete who won the European mixed team title in Rome last summer with Asia Pellizzari, recovered and then overcame the Tuscan archer with the following partials: 28-29, 28-26, 29 -29, 28-27 and 28-24. Third place was won by the young Italian Francesco Tomaselli (Pol. Archers Solese) winning in the final 139-137 over Fabio Luca Azzolini (Arcieri Orione).
COMPOUND OPEN – Even in the women’s compound open the challenge valid for the title was resolved after a play-off, at the end of a spectacular head-to-head between two blue archers. Taking home her fourth tricolor after those in 2013, 2015 and 2022 was Eleonora Sarti (Paralympic Defense Sports Group) who managed to get the better of the Tokyo 2020 bronze medal Maria Andrea Virgilio (Blue Flames). The match ends 143-143 after the 5 volleys and, at the last and decisive arrow, both hit the 9, but Sarti’s one is closer to the center giving her the victory. Third place for another national team, Giulia Pesci (Minerva Archers) who beat Irene Picci (Arcieri Padovani) 145-140.
Even in the men’s competition, the defending champion managed to keep the championship close to his chest in yet another match between the Italians. The European vice champion earned his second tricolor Matteo Bonacina (Archers of the Alps) who concludes the match with his national teammate Paolo Cancelli (Alpignano Archers) surpassing him by 143-142. Third place for Lorenzo Schieda (PHB Bergamo) who beat Francesco Lebrino (Polisportiva Disabili Valcamonica) 139-134 in the final.
OPEN RECURVED – In the women’s recurve, the world champion earned her first ever indoor tricolor Enza Petrilli (Fiamme Oro) which got the better of Letizia Visintini (Cormons Archers) for 6-0 at the end of a flawless test resulting from the following partials: 29-24, 29-25, 28-27. With the same result, the Italian player earned the bronze Veronica Floreno (Defense Paralympic Sports Group) beating Chiara Nardo (Arcieri Niche) 6-0.
Final twist, after yet another play-off final, also in the men’s recurve final which led to the top of Italy for the first time Stefano Travisani (Defense Paralympic Sports Group). The blue archer managed to overtake the defending champion Maurizio Mancini (Blue Arrows) bringing the match to 5-5 and to the shoot-off with the following partials: 25-29, 28-28, 28-28, 28-28, 29-27. The last shot sees Travisani’s arrow hit the 9, but Mancini misses the opportunity to repeat the tricolor in 2022 by hitting an 8 which hands the Italian title to his opponent. Bronze medal for Giuseppe Verzini (Cormons Archers) who beat Roberto Punzo (Defense Paralympic Sports Group) 6-2 in the final.
TEAM TITLES – In the tests which awarded the Italian “doubles” titles for the first time, which replaced the team competition which included trios, the ones celebrating in the men’s W1 were the Frecce Azzure (Panella, Sorato) who beat Ki Oshi Archery ( Graziosi, Uguzzoni) 136-44.
In the women’s Olimpico, Arcieri Cormons (Petris, Visintini) took first place, beating Lupa Capitolina (Buonfiglio, Maugliani) 6-0. In the men’s Olimpico the Arcieri Cameri (Airoldi, Garavaglia) earned the tricolor by winning 5-1 over the Frecce Azzurre (Mancini, Punzo), while the Dyamond Archery Palermo (Campolo, Lisotta) earned the bronze by beating them 6-2 Cormons Archers (Margarit, Verzini).
The finals of the men’s compound, however, could not be played due to the disqualification imposed on the semi-finalists PHB Bergamasca (Bellini, Schieda) and Pol. Disabili Valcamonica (Lebrino, Torri) for failure to compile the score at the end of their challenge. The other semi-final saw the Alpignano Archers (Cancelli, Venturelli) winning 146-139 over the Minerva Archers (Bozzetti, Rovati): the two teams therefore found themselves without opponents, making it impossible to award the medals.
2023-01-23 08:00:00
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