At the European Games in Krakow, the Italia Team can celebrate its fifth Olympic shooting card for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Jessica Rossi won the gold medal in trap, ensuring the blues the second and last available national place after the one obtained by Silvana Stanco with her success at the European Championships in Larnaca (Cyprus) last August.
At the Wroclaw Shooting Center the London 2012 Olympic champion made her voice heard right from the qualifiers, which ended with the first score (123/125).
The Italian was also the best in her ranking match, in which she earned access to the final four thanks to a score of 22/25.
Rossi, despite the high stakes and the pouring rain, did not waver in the gold medal match. Here he made the most of his greater experience compared to his opponents by taking first place thanks to a score of 28/35. Silver for the Finnish Satu Silja Paivikki Makela-Nummela (26/35) while the bronze was secured by the Slovakian Jana Spotakova (17/25).
For Italy this is the second Olympic card for clay shooting in the Polish event after the one obtained by Martina Bartolomei in skeet.
“This race reminded me of the London Olympics, the same sensations. There are, I’m still the same Jessica Rossi from 2012”. This is the joy of the London Olympic champion after the gold medal in trap at the European Games. “Yesterday was a perfect day, I didn’t do anything wrong – declared Jessica Rossi – But then I had food poisoning, vomiting and fever all night, at 3.30 I thought I was struggling to stand up. It was really very difficult, I slept little, my stomach still wasn’t feeling great but everything went as it should. I arrived prepared and calm in Krakow and managed to bring home the Olympic card. And then a gold came in the only race that was missing from my palmares.”
“Paris 2024? After the disappointment in Tokyo I decided to continue and I set myself this goal – continued the blue shooter – It wasn’t easy at all, the level increased a lot and then for the Olympics in Japan I had worked hard but it wasn’t even enough to get into the final. I moved forward giving it my all, I had ups and downs, difficult moments but I worked a lot from a technical point of view“.
“We have made important changes, which are not easy to accept – explained Jessica Rossi – I am proud of the work done together with the coach, now we continue the journey towards Paris with greater serenity. I have never changed: in every athlete’s story there are ups and downs. In some moments it wasn’t easy to accept the difficult moments but I knew well where I had to go. I tried to maintain concentration without ever relaxing. Reaching 31, after all the victories, and accepting the changes was not easy: I faced everything with great humility, I have never changed. And now I collect the results”. (agc)
(photo European Games Krakow-Malopolska 2023)
The Azzurri currently qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games 16 (5 men, 11 women) in 7 discipline:
– Skeet shooting (6 Olympic cards: 2 d Trap, 1 u Trap, 2 d Skeet, 1 u Skeet)
– Gymnastics ritmic (1 Olympic card: 1 individual All-Around)
– Target shooting (1 Olympic card: 1 Carbine 10 m)
– Modern Pentathlon (2 individual passes: Elena Micheli, Alice Sotero)
– Dives (1 Olympic card: 1 d 3 m springboard)
– Boxing (4 individual passes: Salvatore Cavallaro – 80 kg, Giordana Sorrentino – 50 kg, Irma Testa – 57 kg, Aziz Abbes Mouhiidine – 92 kg)
– Archery (1 Olympic card: 1 d individual)
THE MEDAL WINNER OF THE ITALY TEAM:
- ORO Giorgio Minisini/Lucrezia Ruggiero (Artistic swimming – Duo Mixed Technical)
- BRONZE Dennis Sollazzo/Sofia Ceccarello (Target shooting – mixed team 10 m rifle)
- BRONZE Paul Man (Target shooting – 10 m pistol)
- ORO Gabriele Casadei/Carlo Tacchini (Speed canoe – C2 500m)
- BRONZE Mattia Busato (Karate – Kata)
- BRONZE Angelo Crescenzo (Karate – Kumite, -60 kg)
- ARGENTO Sarah Jodoin DiMaria/Lorenzo Marsaglia/Chiara Pellacani/Eduard Timbretti Gugiu (Tuffi – Mixed Team)
- ARGENTO Erminia Perfect (Karate – Kumite, -50 kg)
- BRONZE Beatrice Colli (Climbing – Speed)
- ORO Sara Costantino/Paolo Monna (Target shooting – 10 m mixed team pistol)
- GOLD Danilo Dennis Sollazzo (Target shooting – 10 m rifle)
- GOLD Chiara Pellacani/Matteo Santoro (Diving – Mixed Synchro 3m Springboard)
- ORO Sara Fantini (Athletics – Hammer)
- ARGENTO Nadia Battocletti (Athletics – 5000 m)
- ORO Tobia Bocchi (Athletics – Triple)
- ARGENTO Daisy Osakue (Athletics – Discus)
- ORO Samuel Ceccarelli (Athletics – 100m)
- BRONZE Michele Martina (Karate – Kumite, -84 kg)
- BRONZE Alessandra Mangiacapra (Karate – Kumite, -61 kg)
- ARGENTO Daniele De Vivo (Karate – Kumite, -75 kg)
- ARGENTO Clio Ferracuti (Karate – Kumite, +68 kg)
- ARGENTO Italia (Artistic swimming – Technical Team)
- ARGENTO Sofia Zampetti (Taekwondo, -46 kg)
- BRONZE Andrea Conti (Taekwondo, -54 kg)
- BRONZE Sarah Jodoin Di Maria (Diving – 10m Platform)
- BRONZE Italy (Artistic swimming – Team Acrobatic Routine)
- BRONZE Federico Nilo Maldini/Paul Man/Massimo Spinella (Target shooting – 10 m team pistol)
- BRONZE Sara Costantino/Chiara Giancamilli/Maria Varricchio (Target shooting – 10 m team pistol)
- BRONZE Sarah Jodoin Di Maria/Eduard Timbretti Gugiu (Diving – 10m mixed synchro platform)
- BRONZE Lucilla Boari/Tatiana Andreoli/Chiara Rebagliati (Arco – Team)
- GOLD Mauro Nespoli/Federico Musolesi/Alessandro Paoli (Arco – Team)
- ARGENTO Matthias Furlani (Athletics – Long)
- ARGENTO Ayomide Folorunso (Athletics – 400 hurdles)
- ORO Alessandro Sibilio (Athletics – 400 hurdles)
- BRONZE Ottavia Cestonaro (Athletics – Triple)
- ARGENTO Italia (Athletics – 4×100 U)
- ORO Dennis Baretta (Taekwondo, -63 kg)
- ARGENTO Giorgio Minisini/Lucrezia Ruggiero (Artistic swimming – Mixed Duet Free)
- ARGENTO Giorgio Tomatis (Climbing – Lead)
- ARGENTO Italia (Artistic swimming – Team Free)
- BRONZE Marco Bruno/Elisa Roner (Arco – Mixed Team Compound)
- BRONZE Luca Braidot (Cycling – MTB cross country)
- ARGENTO Riccardo Giovannini/Eduard Timbretti Gugiu (Diving – Synchronized 10m)
- BRONZE Chiara Pappacena/Giulia Sussarello (Padel – Doubles)
- ORO Martina Bartolomei (Tiro a volo – Skeet)
- GOLD Gianmarco Tamberi (Athletics – High Jump)
- ORO Zane Weir (Athletics – Shot Put)
- BRONZE Yemaneberhan Crippa (Athletics – 5,000 metres)
- BRONZE Larissa Iapichino (Athletics – Long Jump)
- ORO Italia (Athletics – First Division)
- BRONZE Natalia D’Angelo (Taekwondo, -67 kg)
- GOLD Chiara Pellacani (Diving – 3m springboard)
- SILVER Marco Cassetta/Giulia Sussarello (Padel – Mixed)
- ORO Carolina Orsi/Giorgia Marchetti (Padel – Double D)
- ARGENTO Giulia Medici (Climbing – Bouldering)
- BRONZE Elena Bertocchi/Chiara Pellacani (Diving – Synchronized 3m)
- ORO Gabriele Rossetti/Simona Scocchetti (Tiro a volo – Mixed Team Skeet)
- BRONZE Lorenzo Marsaglia (Diving – 1m Springboard)
- ORO Martina Bartolomei/Simona Scocchetti/Chiara Di Marziantonio (Skeetshooting – Team Skeet)
- ARGENTO Tammaro Cassandro/Gabriele Rossetti/Elia Sdruccioli (Skeetshooting – Team Skeet)
- BRONZE Eloisa Passaro (Fencing – Saber)
- ARGENTO Enrico Pellegrino Pellegrino (Muaythai, -91 kg)
- BRONZE Riccardo Giovannini (Diving – 10m Platform)
- BRONZE Chiara Rebagliati (Arco – Individual)
- GOLD Elisa Roner (Arco – Individual Compound)
- ORO Martina Batini/Martina Favaretto/Francesca Palumbo/Alice Volpi (Fencing – Team Foil)
- ARGENTO Luca Curatoli/Michele Gallo/Luigi Samele/Matteo Neri (Fencing – Team Saber)
- ARGENTO Lorenzo Marsaglia/Giovanni Tocci (Diving – Synchro Springboard)
- ARGENTO Marco Bruno (Bow – Individual Compound)
- BRONZE Rossella Fiamingo/Federica Isola/Mara Navarria/Alberta Santuccio (Fencing – Team Swordsmanship)
- ORO Tommaso Marini/Daniele Garozzo/Filippo Macchi/Alessio Foconi (Fencing – Team Foil)
- ORO Jessica Rossi (Shooting – Trap)
- BRONZE Federico Emilio Serra (Boxing – 51 kg)
- BRONZE Salvatore Cavallaro (Boxing – 80 kg)
- BRONZE Gabriele Cimini/Davide Di Veroli/Federico Vismara/Andrea Santarelli (Fencing – Team Swordsmanship)
- ORO Mauro De Filippis (Shooting – Trap)
- BRONZE Giordana Sorrentino (Boxing – 50 kg)
- BRONZE Irma Testa (Boxing – 57 kg)
- ARGENTO Martina Criscio, Rossella Gregorio, Chiara Mormile and Eloisa Passaro (Fencing – Team Saber)
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