2021 European Clay target shooting Championships (Osijek): i

The first competition day of the 2021 European Clay Target Shooting Championships immediately saw Italy and its youth athletes as protagonists. On the platforms of the Pampas Shooting Range in Osijek it was up to the new blood to usher in the competition that will assign the titles of the Old Continent as well as the last quota placements available to participate in the Tokyo Olympic Games, which are getting closer.

A promising start for the Italian young athletes in the Croatian setting, where they stood out in skeet (Junior class) thanks to the excellent performances of Cristian Ghilli and Sara Bongini, led by their technical manager Andrea Benelli and supported by Gemini chokes.

The young Cristian achieved a score of 119 out of 125 in the qualification round which earned him the number two dorsal. Besides the athlete of the Fiamme Oro Italian Police team won gold defeating the Cypriot Varnavides by just one target (53 out of 60). Gold medal around his neck and title attained!

Sara proved to be as good: the women competition was characterized by an absolute supremacy of the Fiamme Oro shooter, who qualified for the final round with the best score and then confirmed her performance with the final score of 47 out of 60. She also ranked first and was awarder with the European Junior Champion title.

“We are really satisfied! Reaching both the individual Junior titles is not an everyday thing”, was the comment of our National Team technical manager. We do subscribe to his point of view: seeing young Italian athletes emerge and shine, also thanks to our chokes, gives us more and more the boost to improve in order to steadily ensure excellent present and future achievements.
Our most heartfelt congratulations to Cristian and Sara, we are happy that you are part of our family!

Now it's the “adults’ turn”, once again Gemini chokes will be shoring up Diana Bacosi, Eric Delaunay and Tammaro Cassandro standing on the shooting platform.