The first gold for Italy arrives at the World Shooting Championships in Osijek.
After yesterday's disappointments in the individual competitions of Fossa Olimpica, today for the national team of the coach Albano Pera there was the victory in the Mixed Team race, or in mixed couples (a woman and a man), thanks to Giulia Grassia from Modena and to the tarantino residing in Padua Mauro De Filippis.
The latter, in fact, no longer shoots in tandem with his ex-wife Jessica Rossi, as happened in Tokyo 2020 with certainly not memorable results.
To get on the top step of the podium, the two Azzurri had to resort to the play-off against the couple from Great Britain formed by Lucy Charlotte Hall and Nathan Hales, beaten 9-8.
At 5-5 the shoot off was interrupted due to a violent rain that fell for half an hour on the competition fields, and then resumed until the British made a mistake.
In this race, which in Paris 2024 will not be part of the Games program, the world bronze went to two couples, those of Australia and Slovenia.
