Osjek World Skeet Championship 2022, Great Britain and the United States are absolute junior champions with three medals each. Italy, bad at the individual and team events, redeems itself with bronze in the mixed team thanks to the Galardini-Paolacci duo.
The 2022 World Skate Championships started in reference to the United States of America and Great Britain. The two English-speaking nations dominated the junior category in the competition, winning three prizes each. The British won the gold in the women’s singles, thanks to the performance of Sophie Hermann, who played on skeet with Indian Aareba Khan (30 to 29 out of 40 goals available). Bronze medal for Romania’s Maria Ravica Islay, who got a score of 20.
The men’s test is a privilege for the USA, with strongman Benjamin Keeler (122/125 in qualifying), winning the final (34 with 32 hits) over another Briton, Mitchell Brooker Smith. The two are competing alone, given that Czech Martin Veselica, bronze, has a score of 22/40.
The Smith-Hermann pair gives Britain another treat by winning the gold medal in the mixed team, against China’s Zhao Wuang who beat them 6-4. Just the team event gives the only happiness to Italy, who is out of the race for medals in both individual and team events. The duo of Andrea Gallardini, 35th in the individual qualifiers with a total of 108, and Damiana Paolacci, 25th with 94 goals, beat the Czech duo of Andrei Brezina and Adriana Zajkova in a penalty shootout.
For the rest, the World Cup was a delight in pleasing the young Blues: from the finals to the individual events, where all the “Azzurri” shooters (except Bernardini and Pongini, two goals and one goal respectively) fared well from the top eight that guaranteed access to the semi-finals, no He was better off in a team event. Gallardini, Coco and Bernardini, fifth in qualifiers in the men’s event, left the USA for the trio of Sapp Burns Killer to claim the medals, and Finland from Beltomikei, Maikinen, Lehtimaike and India (also with three medals, counting the bronze) as the mixed team beat the US) Gil, Sikhon and Bondela.
No better than the girls, Bangini, Paolacci and Piccioli, who also finished fifth in the qualifiers, left the medals for Slovakia (bronze with Supekova-Zajickova-Hockova), USA (silver for Laybe, Fulton and Nelson) and China (gold with Yingzi. Wang, Dan Wang, and Yahojia Zhou).
Seniors races will start tomorrow. Italy places its highest hopes on Diana Baccossi (Rio gold, Tokyo silver), Gabriel Rossetti (Rio gold) and Chiara Cainero (Beijing gold in 2008, silver in Rio). Four Olympic passes ready to be critiqued, as the ‘blue’ national team tries to make up for the pains they suffered in the trap.
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