At the 13pm inauguration, the Italian shooters of clay pigeon shooting and target shooting who won medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics: Diana Bacosi and Gabriele Rossetti gold in Mixed Skeet, Silvana Stanco silver in Trap, Federico Nilo Maldini and Paolo Monna, silver and bronze in P10, Davide Franceschetti, bronze P4 in Free Pistol caliber .22 SH1. There were also the president of FITAV and ISSF Luciano Rossi and the president of UITS, Costantino Vespasiano who showed closeness to the visitors and exhibitors, because the athletes are champions who often compete side by side with amateurs.
The shooter of the Paralympic Sports Group Defence, Davide Franceschetti, was the protagonist of a nice gesture during the awards ceremony of the EOS Trophy Air Pistol competition that is taking place for the second year at the fair and has seen 72 shooters compete, that is, the maximum possible number. Franceschetti handed over the special prize that goes to the winner to the second place winner, Marco Pusinich from Vicenza.
"It's right this way," he explained. "I took part in the contest to have a nice day with some friends and colleagues, and to be the spokesperson for a message that helps promote Paralympic shooting. The EOS Trophy is a very nice tournament that pits shooters who have a different experience and background at a competitive level than mine. For this reason, the one who deserves the prize is Marco, a top-level shooter who fought on equal terms today until the last shot." The 10-meter Pistol competition was won by Michele Botti from Soave (VR), ahead of Alfio Giubbilei from Fucecchio (FI) and Alice Bruno from Treviso. Tomorrow it's the turn of the 10-meter Rifle, while Monday will be the turn of a special event, the Italian Journalists Championship.
Also present at the ribbon cutting Federico Bricolo, President of Veronafiere who expressed his appreciation for a fair capable of valorising Italian excellence and Cristiano Corazzari, Councilor of the Veneto Region for Hunting, Fishing and Sports who underlined the importance of volunteering carried out by hunters in the area, without which the institutions and citizens would be in serious difficulty in managing the area itself and the fauna.
In this regard, the International meeting WaSH (Women and sustainable Hunting), for the first time in Italy, organized by the National Coordination of Women Hunters of the Italian Hunting Federation, has identified game meat as a crucial resource for the future of humanity. He has underlined how important it is to deepen the study on the organoleptic characteristics of these meats and promote their diffusion for a concrete help to third world countries as well as western ones where the pollution caused by food production has reached alarming levels.
At the end of the day the ten year anniversary celebration UNA Foundation, which in this period of time has come to connect the hunting world with the environmentalist, agricultural and academic ones, broadening the traditional horizons of hunting.
The first day was also very good in pavilion 9 dedicated to fishing, in particular fly fishing with competitive programmes, various precision casting activities aimed at young people and the opportunity to try out new equipment made available by the exhibiting companies. For the first time in Italy, a custom fly fishing area, dedicated to craftsmen who build rods, lures, lines, landing nets and other accessories in fine materials and with refined workmanship. Alongside the consolidated Italian Fly Tyers show, an exhibition that collects as many as 45 European manufacturers of artificial lures who will illustrate their art "live", on their tables. And a conference of theIBRA-Italian bamboo rodmakers association, to spread the art of building bamboo rods for fly fishing.
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