Fitav: Armed Forces and State Corps plan activities 2015

Fitav: Armed Forces and State Corps plan 2015 activities

Fitav: President Rossi met the leaders of the Sports Groups.

The Armed Forces and the State Corps closed the 2014 season with a meeting that had as protagonists the leaders of the Defense Staff, the Navy, the Air Force, the Army, the Carabinieri, the State Police, of Finance, the Forestry Corps and the Local Police. The meeting, organized by the contact person for the Fitav uniformed activity Domenico Lufrano, took place in the hall of the Officers Club of the Navy in Rome and had as guest of honor the President Luciano Rossi, present in the double role of principle federal authority and Senator of the Republic and member of the Defense Commission.

The main point of the agenda was the definition of the competitive activity of 2015 with the approval of the calendar of the main national competitions.

"The collaboration with the Armed Forces and the State Copri has produced very effective synergies - explained Rossi at the end of the meeting - Born from a happy intuition, mine and the Federal Council, the uniform shooting project has grown in a exponential. The standard bearers of the Sports Groups have contributed, in a decisive way, to embellishing the history of international successes of our sport. For this reason, we strongly support an even closer and more fruitful interaction. Thanks to the efforts of our Federation, Skeet Shooting has been included in the program of the CISM World Championships. A truly excellent result ”.

Successfully closed the Military World Cup project, the new objective on which President Rossi wants to concentrate his activity, with the active collaboration of the military leaders, is the inclusion of disabled athletes in the Sports Groups. “For many years we have been promoting the Paralympic shooting project. What was a dream only seven years ago has now become a consolidated reality, accredited by the leading sports institutions of reference, such as the ISSF and the IPC.

The guiding principle was to guarantee the maximum possible accessibility to our sport, without discrimination or inequalities. The time has come to take this path also in the military field ”.

An ambitious project whose foundations will be consolidated over the course of 2015.

Waiting for it to happen, these are the next season's races: February 15th - Qualification for the DT Winter Championship; 22 February Qualifications to the FO and SK Winter Championships; 22 March FO Grand Prix; April FO and SK Grand Prix; 14 and 15 May FU Italian Championship; 30 and 31 May Individual Italian Championship FO and SK; September FO Italian Championship; from 12 to 15 October Italian DT and American Trap Championship (Nave.