Shooting World Championships, trap triumph for Jessica Rossi

But the Italian champion, at the same time, placed her signature on the Olympic card (Italy’s first in the discipline). In the four individual races of the Qatari event, in addition to the world championship metals, there were above all three precious non-nominal passes up for grabs for the next Summer Games of Los Angeles 2028reserved for the top three athletes in the ranking of different nationalities. In fact, at the World Championships, differently from what will happen in the other five-circle qualifying stages, an NOC can only secure one card in each of the events. The London 2012 Olympian he passed the three qualifying sessions (50+50+25) with a score of 119/125, appearing in the decisive final series credited to the back number one. Here, despite two consecutive missed targets in the last series of five shots, he contained with great composure the forceful return of Adriana Ruano Oliva, Olympic champion of Paris 2024closing them narrowly ahead with the result of 27/30. Silver medal, therefore, for the Guatemalan (26/30) while the third and last step of the podium went to the neutral individual athlete Daria Semianova (bronze with 19/25).

At home in Italy, the excellent quality should also be noted fourth place for Erica Sessa (16/20), world junior champion a Changwon in 2018 both at an individual level and in the mixed team, she managed to keep up with the best in the world even in the final after finishing fifth in the qualifications (117/125 +2) on the sidelines of a shoot-off involving two other shooters. Nothing to do, however, for Silvana Maria Stancoreigning Olympic silver medalist, only 16th in the preliminary phase (112/125) and therefore excluded from the fight for individual medals. But it didn’t end here. The same Rossi (119/125), Sessa (117/125) and Stanco (112/125) took gold in the women’s team classification. The Italians, thanks to the total score of 348/375, literally defeated the competition, clearly prevailing against both the Czech Republic and Turkey, who both concluded with the overall score of 340/375.