Shooting: Mauro De Filippis, athlete of the Italian Shooting Team for the Trap and Double Trap disciplines, joins the Beretta Shooting Team.
The Beretta Shooting Team is enriched with another star: Mauro De Filippis, athlete of the Italian Shooting Team for the Trap and Double Trap disciplines, chooses the DT11 for the continuation of his journey towards the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Mauro de Filippis, from Taranto, born in 1980 is a crystalline talent of the Italian shooting scene. He approaches skeet shooting in 1996, under the guidance of his parents, who are also very passionate about skeet shooting, and in the same year he wins the Italian title dedicated to young promises.
From 1997 to today Mauro has always been part of the Italian national team, with which he won a World Cup race in 2010 and the European team title in 2014. Mauro has been one of the leading athletes of the Fiamme Oro Sports Group of the State Police since 2001 with whom he has won numerous individual and team titles in Italy. Thanks to a sports sponsorship agreement, the athlete joins Beretta with a six-year contract that will benefit from Mauro's dual role both as an international shooter and in his new role as a shooting instructor. Mauro De Filippis joins the Beretta Team which boasts athletes of the caliber of Jessica Rossi, Giovanni Pellielo, Kimberly Rhode, Vincent Hancock, Giovanni Cernogoraz, Chiara Cainero, Francesco D'Aniello and many others. Mauro de Filippis will be equipped with a DT11 Trap rifle and a second one in the new ACS version for the Double Trap.
Mauro de Filippis, enthusiastic on his first day at Beretta, said: 'I am happy to join the Beretta Team, and to marry a company in which I have found high-level professional skills combined with an imposing industrial structure, capable of combining technology with unrivaled customization expertise. I also feel that I am embracing a solid family that for 15 generations has continued to invest in the future with vision and courage and that has been able to earn respect and credibility all over the world. And just think that my first shotgun, given to me by my parents when I was just 4 and a half years old, was a single barrel Beretta cal. 24. This choice of mine to change teams comes at a time when I decided to get back into the game to the end and I decided to do it with those who share with me values and a common planning linked to the development of skeet shooting ".
Carlo Ferlito - General Manager of the Pietro Beretta Arms Factory, comments Mauro de Filippis' entry into the company: "Mauro had long been in our goals, not only for his great sporting skills but also for his human skills and the professionalism with which he plays his role as athlete and instructor of shooting: a standing that perfectly dense with the best image that the company wants to give of itself to the outside. We count on him to represent the company and our pride in this sport, in Italy and abroad, and we feel we have an extra asset in him in our design path for the development of skeet shooting. Mauro has just told us that he is happy to join the Beretta family, we are equally happy to have now, together with Jessica, this fantastic family in the team. We are a lucky company. "
Pietro Beretta SpA Arms Factory, is an Italian company born from the dream and skills of a Renaissance craftsman who, thanks to the courage, vision and tenacity of his descendants (now in the fifteenth generation), has become an internationally recognized name for technological and performance and for the Italian style that characterizes its products.
From the oldest 'sales invoice' dated 3 October 1526, now preserved in the archive of the Venice arsenal, almost five hundred years of proven work have enabled Beretta to develop a unique know-how.
In constant balance between tradition and innovation, Beretta combines the avant-garde of mechanics, of modern numerically controlled work centers, assisted by robots, with the artisan excellence of manual processing in the assembly and finishing of weapons. A production division is entirely dedicated to the production of premium segment rifles, tailor-made products based on customer specifications, cared for by expert gunsmiths in every aesthetic and functional detail and embellished with refined engravings, hand-made by the most qualified and skilled master engravers. Each of them is an unrepeatable masterpiece, excellence of "Made in Italy", in demand all over the world.
Beretta and sport - shooting. In Melbourne, in 1956, Beretta won her first Olympic gold medal in clay pigeon shooting. Since then, the successes achieved in major competitions have occurred frequently in every Olympic event, from the Rome Games in 1960 to the gold medal won by Vincent Hancock at the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London (2012) in the Skeet discipline, which was adds to the silver medal of the Chinese Wei Ning, also in Skeet, and to the bronze of Al-Attiya in the same discipline, not to mention the countless medals won at the World Championships since 1978. For over half a century Beretta has been leading the world its sporting vocation which earned it the primacy of the greatest number of victories in international competitions for competition shotguns. The high quality and the wide range of products allow Beretta to compete in any shooting specialty, Trap, D-Trap, Skeet, Elica and Sporting. Translated into figures, Beretta's participation in the World Championships is equal to 69 gold medals, 69 silver and 72 bronze. At the Olympic Games there are 14 gold medals, 11 silver medals and 12 bronze ones.
Gardone Val Trompia, 23 January 2015
Beretta Communications Office