Macerata, elected European City of Sport 2022, will host the first federal event of the new archery season. The Italian Indoor Para-Archery Championships will be hosted at the Palasport Fontescodella on 29 and 30 January.
THE COMPETING CATEGORIES
The championship will see on the shooting line almost 80 archers from all over Italy, belonging to the Ricurvo Open, Compound Open, W1 and Visually Impaired 1 and 2/3 categories who will compete for the class titles at the end of the 60 qualifying arrows. and, subsequently, they will be engaged in direct clashes over 18 meters away that will give away the absolute Italian individual titles.
Due to covid-19, the team matches will not be played in Macerata which, starting from 2022, will see an important regulation change wanted by the International Federation: the team competition with the male and female trio will be replaced by the “double” , which provides for two athletes per team instead of three. This type of competition will support the mixed team competition with head to head starting from April 1st.
THE BLUES OF TOKYO ON THE FIELD
On the competitive side it will be an unmissable event since the athletes of the National Para-Archery will be competing. The protagonists of Tokyo 2020 will all be on the shooting line to compete for the Italian titles after the successes obtained at Yumenoshima Park Archery Field, where Italy won at least one podium for the tenth consecutive edition, thanks to Enza Petrilli’s individual curved silver. , the curved mixed team silver of Elisabetta Mijno and Stefano Travisani and the compound individual bronze of Maria Andrea Virgilio.
The appointment in Macerata is particularly important because the Azzurri will have the opportunity to confront each other in view of the calls for the Outdoor World Championships in Dubai which, in the middle of winter, will see the Azzurri compete in the Arab Emirates over long distances. In fact, in recent months, the training of the National team has alternated between indoor and outdoor.
OUTGOING SAMPLES
To defend the absolute Italian title won last year in Reggio Calabria there will be Diego Garavaglia and the blue Elisabetta Mijno in the curved open; in the compound open the nationals Paolo Cancelli and Maria Andrea Virgilio; in the W1 Daniele Cassiani and among the Visually Impaired Giovanni Maria Vaccaro. In Macerata there are also 12 new medical classifications of athletes who will participate in the competition for the first time, increasing the number of Paralympic agonists.
PROGRAM
The competition program foresees for the day of Friday 28 January, at 12:00, the press conference to present the event at the Auditorium Biblioteca “Mozzi Borgetti”, while in the afternoon, starting at 17:30, they will carry out the medical classifications at the Palasport Fontescodella, in addition to the accreditation phases of the archers. A gala dinner will also be organized in the evening at the La Filarmonica restaurant.
On Saturday 29 January the real competition will start, starting at 8:10 am, with the opening ceremony, followed by the 60 ranking round arrows that assign the class titles and establish the scoreboard of direct matches for the absolute tricolors. The individual eliminatory phases will also be played during the day.
Sunday 30 January, from 8:30 am, the finals for the Olympic bronze Open, Compound Open, W1 and Visually Impaired will be played, while from 14:00 the challenges that are worth the absolute Italian title will start, followed by the award ceremony. and closing.
THE RACE ON TV AND ON THE WEB
The Italian Indoor Championship will be followed by all Fitarco communication channels and beyond. The races on Saturday and Sunday will be broadcast in live streaming on YouArco, the official youtube channel of Fitarco, and simultaneously on the federal social channels (Facebook, Twitter and Twitch). A summary of the finals for the absolute titles will also be broadcast on Rai Sport in the days following the race. The results of the competition will be posted on the federal website, as will the photographs of the event.
