The national championship of the youth sector has been successfully filed, qualitatively and quantitatively, now the spotlight of the Trap Concaverde in Lonato turns on the para-trap world championship. The event, the first ever of this magnitude, will see the strongest international shooters with disabilities compete in skeet shooting, representing 16 different nations, in search of the title of planetary champion. The delegations of the athletes, who will be helped in their movements by Unitalsi volunteers, will arrive in Lonato on October 2nd. After a day reserved for training pitches, the afternoon of October 4th will get to the heart of the competition, with the inauguration ceremony and the extraordinary participation of the Lonato Mini-band, which will shape the soundtrack of the event. The first official day of competition, and consequently the first 75 targets, has already been set for 5 October, while Saturday 6, after having fired at the remaining 50 selection targets, the finals will be played (which will be broadcast live at 15 pm on RAI Sport, whose cameras will be present on the field to film the event) and the consequent awards.
«Organizing sporting events in which the protagonists are special athletes like those who will compete during this World Championship, allows you to perceive the true essence of Sport with its principles of discipline, loyalty, and equality. - explained Ivan Carella, president of the Garda structure - For this reason I want to thank the International Federation and the Italian Federation for having entrusted us, after the success obtained, on the fields of Lonato, of the first 2017 World Cup, the organization of the first Championship World Cup in the history of the Paralympic shooting movement ».
"Thanks to the commitment and tenacity of the President Luciano Rossi and the Vice President Emanuela Bonomi Croce, - continued Carella - Italy is today the protagonist in the promotion and development of this extraordinary sport shooting discipline and, thanks to constant work of international awareness, together with the international federation, the FITAV (Italian Shooting Federation) will shortly lead the Para Trap to the Paralympic Games ».
The day of the finals, which will be held on the afternoon of Saturday 6 October, at the same time as the races, will be held an exhibition of guide dogs for the blind of Lions. All races will be free and, at the end of the awards ceremony, a convivial moment is planned to celebrate the event together with the public and to be able to talk with the protagonists of the event. The sporting event will be preceded, on the morning of 29 September at 10 am, at the Concaverde in Lonato, from a presentation press conference. The organizers, local authorities and FITAV delegates will be present, who will illustrate this project with a strong sporting and social relevance to those present.