FITAV: First national meeting for disabled athletes in skeet shooting last Sunday at Concaverde in Lonato del Garda and first official outing, in the role of the new Technical Commissioner of the Sector, Luciano Giovannetti.
14/11/11 - LONATO del Garda (BS) - After the green light of the Cip (Italian Paralympic Committee), which on 25 September also included Fitav among the Italian Paralympic Federations, the national Federtiro, with the deputy vice president with delegation to the Disabled Emanuela Bonomi Croce, a great supporter in the first person of this project that immediately set specific objectives.
In addition to intensifying the activity in the national territory of the sector, divided into the categories of Physically Disabled Sitting and Standing, there is already talk of a possible World Championship in 2012 and access to the 2016 Paralympics. that Luciano Giovannetti, a myth of Italian skeet shooting in the world, whom we remember twice as Olympic gold medal (Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984). Like him, only the Australian champion Michael Diamond (Atlanta 1996 and Sidney 2000). “A serious and far-sighted project is taking shape”.
With this spirit Luciano Giovannetti welcomed the 12 disabled athletes summoned on Saturday 12 November on the platforms of the Concaverde in Lonato del Garda (BS) for this first national meeting. "In Monaco, there will soon be a meeting with the aim of creating an international circuit of races dedicated to the Disabled sector, and we do not want to be taken by surprise". “We Italians are the main architects of all this, so we must show that we are serious. Even if in 2012 it will not be possible to be included in the programs of the Paralympics, things are destined to accelerate, with the European and World Championships in the sights perhaps as early as next year, which must find us prepared ”.
Luciano Giovannetti, also retains the position of coach of the youth sector which, since he is followed by this great champion, has grown considerably both in quantitative and, above all, qualitative terms. "I hope - adds Giovannetti - that skeet shooting can be included in the 2016 Paralympics and therefore our discipline, wrongly considered dangerous, will be re-evaluated, a non-real evaluation that has excluded us from the 2012 London" Games ". made to speak for us, given that in the statistics of danger for damage to things and people drawn up by Coni for the forty disciplines taken into consideration, our sport occupies the last place in the ranking. Never as in this case, being last makes us particularly proud. "
What was the criteria for choosing the shooters adopted for this first stage of the Giovannetti era? "I made use of the results obtained by these athletes in the last two years during the Italian Championships and in the next appointment, also here at Concaverde in December, 20 other shooters will be called, with the dual purpose of knowing us all and being able to work with an enlarged group, a necessary and indispensable basis for starting in 2012 to embody this ambitious project that spurs us to be architects and protagonists also in this sector at a global level ”.
The shooters present at the 1st national disabled meeting Standing: Santo Falanga (Tav Il Campanile); Paolo Bortolin (Tav Campoformido); Denis Chiarotti (Tav Genova); Angelo Marozzini (Tav Fermo); Giancarlo Cicala (Tav Aosta); Elio Spadoni (Tav Club Olimpico Foligno. Sitting: Angelo Colombanu (Tav Olbia); Fadda Gian Mario (Tav Olbia); Oreste Lai (Tav Villasor); Omar Radaelli (Tav Lovare); Andrea Zambon (Tav La Fattoria); Bruno Busti ( Tav Mezzomonte) Technical Commissioner: Luciano Giovannetti National Delegate for the Disabled: Roberto Sparnaccini.
Source: Fitav