The weekend just ended promised to be "hot" for the Shooting Regional Winter Championships despite the low temperatures of late January and has kept its promises. After the almost 2700 participants of the weekend of 23 and 24 January, yet another two days of racing has been registered twenty-five races and fourteen regions involved. The final balance was of 2419 shooters engaged, a new “boom” in enrollments which confirmed the attraction towards the discipline. The numbers refer as usual to the Olympic Trench, Skeet, Double Trap, Universal Trench and Hunting Course. The Lombardia it was not undermined from the first place as regards the ranking of the regions with the highest number of participants, to be precise 390 shooters.
There were two host societies, namely the TAV Cieli Aperti of Cologno al Serio (Bergamo) and the TAV Belvedere of Uboldo, platforms reserved for Olympic Trench specialists. Sicily was the second most “popular” territory with 332 shooters and once again the Olympic Pit was the only specialty chosen: the two host clubs were the TAV Vittoria and Traversa di Casteldaccia (Palermo). The last regional step of the podium is instead occupied by Campania with its 229 appearances, divided between Olympic Pit, Skeet and Hunting Course competitions. Trap was undoubtedly the specialty chosen by the highest number of shooters: we are talking about 2001 enrolled, followed by the Hunting Course (187), the Universal Pit (157), the Skeet (40) and the Double Trap ( 34).
What other numbers emerged with greater arrogance in the two days of competitions? Two other regions that have performed well with regard to inscriptions have been the Marche and Veneto, respectively with 210 and 196 athletes competing. The only match postponed, however, was that of Skeet del Tiro a Volo Suno (province of Novara), which will take place on February 14th.
Furthermore, a week ago Molise was the last region in terms of participations, this time only the Olympic Fossa competition organized by the TAV Camporino was scheduled. but no registrations were recorded. Finally, Umbria was the region with the greatest variety of races. In fact, the 123 shooters were hosted by the TAV Gualdo Tadino, Umbriaverde and Trasimeno to give life to the competitions related to the Universal Trench, the Double Trap and the Hunting Course. The next appointment is scheduled in seven days, on the weekend of 6-7 February and there is already a lot of expectation on the results that will be achieved.