First day of finals at the European Para-Archery Championships in Rome. Today the challenges for bronze took place with two successes for Italy in W1 thanks to Asia Pellizzari and the mixed team, tomorrow the competitions move to the splendid scenery of the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica with all the matches for gold live on RaiPlay from 11:00 to 12:30.THE RESULTS OF W1 – Asia wins bronze Pellizzari who beat the British Victoria Kingstone 129-113 in the final without any worries. Domination for the Italian who after the first six arrows already has a twelve point lead (29-21, 27-23), her opponent tries to make up ground with successes in the third and fifth sets (25-24 and 24- 23), but the home archer puts the exclamation point in the fourth with 26-20 which closes the game even more.
The second bronze of the day for Pellizzari arrives together with Maurizio Panella with the victory in the match against Great Britain (Kingstone, Saych) in mixed team with the result 137-126. Italy comes back to take the medal after losing the first set 34-31, a small hiccup in a match in which the other volleys are all Italian 35-32, 35-29 and 36-31
Fourth place instead for Maurizio Panella who is overcome by Bahattin Hekimoglu 136-131, the match is balanced in the first two volleys with 29-26 for the Turk and 27-25 for the blue, then Hekimoglu takes over with two winning sets 28-25 and 28-27 , the last ends tied 26-26.THE RESULTS OF THE COMPOUND – Maria Andrea ends her race at the foot of the podium Virgilio in the compound with the 141-135 knockout against the Polish Markitantova. The gap is almost entirely created in the first set 28-23, the others are decidedly more balanced even if the Pole wins the second and fifth (both 29-28), draws the fourth 28-28 and leaves only the third to the Italian 28-27THE RESULTS OF THE OLIMPIC – Fourth place also for Vincenza Petrilli who lost the match against the Greek Dorothea Poimenidou 6-2. The Italian took the lead 2-0 (23-21), but was then overtaken by the Hellenic team capable of winning the next three sets 23-21, 25-20 and 23-22.
The mixed team was unlucky Elisabetta Mijno-Stefano Travisani who lost the bronze final only in the shoot-off against Poland 5-4 (16-20). The Italian pair, who had set a new world record in qualifying, won the first set (36-30), then were overtaken by Olszweska-Ciszek 36-31 and 36-34, but in the fourth volley they evened the score 36- 31 and takes the match to the shoot off. The last two arrows see the opponents being more precise with two 10s against a 6 and a 10 for the home teamTHE RESULTS OF THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED – Today was also the day of the Visually Impaired preliminaries with Italy gaining two more passes to the finals, thus increasing the number of matches that will see the Azzurri as protagonists tomorrow to eleven. At 10.30 am between VI 2/3 Daniele Piranhareigning champion, will play for gold against the Spaniard Orjales Vidal who beat Giovanni Maria in the first round Vaccaro 7-3, while Piran won 6-2 in the semi-final against British Thomas. Among the VI 1s the bronze will be played at 9.45 Matteo Panariello against Andora archer Casellas Albiol after being defeated 6-0 by Misos (CYP).THE BLUE FINALS
Thursday 23 May
9.00 am: Women’s W1 Bronze: Pellizzari-Kingstone (GBR) 129-113
09.15: Men’s W1 bronze: Panella-Hekimoglu (TUR) 131-136
09.30: Women’s compound bronze: Virgilio-Markitantova (CZE) 135-141
10.00: Bronze Olympic women’s bow: Petrilli-Poimenidou (GRE) 2-6
10.30: Bronze W1 mixed team: Italy-Great Britain 137-126
11.50: Bronze Olympic mixed team arch: Italy-Poland 4-5 (16-20) Friday 24 May
09.45: Bronzo VI 1: Panariello-Casellas Albiol
10.30: Gold VI 2/3: Piran-Orjales Vidal
11.30: Women’s compound gold: Sarti-Cure (TUR)
12.00: Oro arco olimpico femminile: Mijno-Olszewska (POL)
3.00pm: Compound mixed team gold: Italy-Türkiye
3.20pm: Women’s team gold medal: Italy-Türkiye
3.40pm: Men’s team compound gold: Italy-Slovakia
4.20pm: Olympic gold medal for women’s teams: Italy-Türkiye
4.40pm: Olympic gold for men’s teams: Italy-Great Britain
5.20pm: W1 women’s team gold: Italy-Czech Republic
5.40pm: W1 men’s team gold: Italy-Türkiye
2024-05-23 11:42:16
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