Archery: 4 golds for Italy at the Fazza World Ranking Tournament in Dubai
Archery: 4 golds for Italy at the Fazza World Ranking Tournament in Dubai
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March 11, 2024
11 mar 2024
Rome – Four gold medals, two passes to the next Paralympic Games in Paris 2024: this is the result of the Italian archery team at the Fazza World Ranking Tournament in Dubai, a qualifying tournament for the next Summer Paralympics.
The first medals came from the mixed teams. The first to take to the field on the day of the finals in Dubai are the Azzurri from the Olympic arc. Elisabetta Mijno and Stefano Travisani prevailed over Shigesada and Ueyama’s Japan with a clear 6-2.
The Azzurri started off strong, immediately taking the lead to 4-0 (33-31, 34-32), in the third set the Japanese tried to stay in the match by shortening the gap (36-35), but not in the fourth set did they dominate again Italian, with 35-34 which definitively closed the final.
It’s also gold for the W1 couple formed by Asia Pellizzari and Paolo Tonon. Italy beat the Czech Republic without sweating too much with the result of 147-139, a success born and raised in the first three partials all won by the Azzurri (35-32, 39-37 and 38-34), while the last goes to Davidek-Brandlova 36-35.
The trip to Dubai ended with the two gold medals obtained in the individual events. Elisabetta Mjino also won the individual gold by clearly prevailing over the Indian Pooja 6-0. The Italian thus ended her match without giving up a single set after finishing the qualification in first place, a total domination also confirmed in the final with the victory of all the partials: 27-23, 26-24 and 28-16 .
The men’s Olympic gold final was longer and more competitive with Stefano Travisani overcoming the Frenchman Toucoullet 6-4. The match was balanced in the first two sets (26-26, 27-27), until Travisani took the lead 28-27. The transalpine, however, did well not to give in to the pressure and to bring himself back to parity in the following round of arrows. Thus we went to the fifth set where the Italian archer was perfect and with three “10s” he took the gold by taking advantage of his opponent’s 29.
In W1, the two Italians who had managed to qualify for the bronze finals remained at the foot of the podium. Asia Pellizzari loses 134-132 against the Czech Republic archer Pultar Musilova. The Italian started well (27-26), then after the second set (29-25) she found herself down by four points and was unable to recover them despite the 27-26 in the third quarter and the 28-27 in the fifth , in the middle there was in fact the 27-26 of the opponent which closed the accounts. There was also nothing to do for Maurizio Panella, beaten by the Finn Antonio 135-120 with the Northern European athlete doing well to win all the partials 28-22, 29-25, 27-26, 25-23 and 26-24.
Thanks to these results, the number of Italy’s passes for the Paris Games has risen to 9.
2024-03-11 15:37:41
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