(ANSA) – CHANGWON, 19 JUL – The blue Chiara Di Marziantonio finished in third place, and therefore with the bronze medal, the women’s Skeet competition of the ‘stage’ of the World Cup shooting in Changwon. The 26-year-old shooter from Cerveteri who was gold at the Universiade di Napoli 2019 closed the qualifiers in fifth position with a score of 117/125 (+11) and then brilliantly passed the semifinal, deserving access to the round that awarded the medals up for grabs. In the end with 23/30 she climbed to the third step of the podium, the first for her as a senior in the World Cup, surpassed only by the French Lucie Anastassiou and the British Amber Hill, the latter silver after losing the play-off (1-0 ) with the rival with whom he had finished evenly on 34/40.
“It was a difficult race because I came from a dark moment in my sporting career – Di Marziantonio commented after the race -. Now I am very happy, because I have wanted a medal in the World Cup for a long time. it will help me to work with renewed commitment and give me new impetus. I thank the federation, the coach Andrea Benelli, my coach Carmine Ambrosanio and my team mates. “
The other Italian Simona Scocchetti, ‘opposite’ to Di Marziantonio as from Tarquinia, finished in fifth place.
Out of the final the Azzurri in the men’s test, won by the Indian Mairaj Ahmad Khan, the shooter who, in June last year, was unable to get vaccinated for Covid in Italy (he trained in Capua, in the plant of his coach Ennio Falco) drove more than a thousand kilometers from Campania to Croatia to be able to have a (single) dose of Johnson & Johnson inoculated in Zagreb, which allowed him to take part in the Tokyo Olympics. Today he won ahead of South Korean Minsu Kim and British Ben LLewellin. Fifth place for Erik Pittini and seventh for Niccolò Sodi. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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