The 49th edition of the Italian Indoor Archery Championships, running until Sunday 27 February at the Rimini Fair with almost 1300 archers on the firing line, immediately offers thrilling emotions and challenges. The first day of competitions was entirely dedicated to the Naked Arch division: the 60 arrows in the ranking round, in addition to assigning the Boys, Students, Juniores, Seniors and Masters class titles, established the scoreboard of direct matches (the best 16 admitted to the qualifying rounds, from the round of 16), after the one-on-one matches, it was head-to-head for the absolute Italian title that crowned Giulia Mantilli and Alessandro Rigamonti.
Mantilli bis d’oro
Giulia Mantilli (Roman Archers) won her second overall Italian title in the indoor specialty by overcoming Anastasia Garau (Sardara Archery Team) 6-0 in the final. The athlete from Rome had previously lined up Marina Papa in the round of 16 for 6-0, in the quarterfinals Valeria Congiunti 7-3 and in the semifinals with the same score Luciana Pennacchi. The latter had defeated Moira Girola 6-2 in the quarterfinals, who in the previous round had surprisingly eliminated the outgoing champion Cinzia Noziglia, athlete of the Fiamme Oro fresh with a continental title in Slovenia. “It is a wonderful feeling to win the Scudetto back, it was all a surprise this day, I certainly did not expect to get to the bottom after the wonderful results that the national teams achieved at the European Championships”, Giulia Mantilli, visibly excited, commented. For her part, the Sardinian archer, born in 1997, had reached the final overcoming Federica Rampa 7-3 in the round of 16, Claudia Stecca 6-0 in the quarterfinals and Giulia Atzeni 6-2 in the semifinal. The bronze is won by Luciana Pennacchi (City of Pescia) overcoming Giulia Atzeni (Arcieri Torres Sassari) 7-1.
First title for Rigamonti
The last final of the day instead rewarded Alessandro Rigamonti (Arcieri Orobici), who with great coldness hit his first ever tricolor in indoor career, winning 6-2 on Valter Basteri (Frecce Apuane), fresh from Lasko’s indoor European Championships. where he made his debut in the national team. The winner reached the final after beating Paolo Corradi 6-0 in the round of 16, then Alessandro Di Nardo 6-2 in the quarter-finals and Matteo Toniolo 6-0 in the semifinal. Basteri had overtaken Francesco Carrasco 6-4 in the second round, then 7-3 in the quarterfinals Massimo Olivieri and in the semifinal 6-4 Edoardo Gallucci, who in the previous round had stopped Marcello Tozzola (Byzantine Archers) from Romagna for 6-2. The bronze medal went to Edoardo Gallucci (Le Frecce di Monterano), who prevailed 6-5 in the shoot-off on Matteo Toniolo (Arcieri Arzignano). “I am very satisfied – the first words of the Lombard archer, who after the last arrow did not hold back a bit of emotion – also because when you arrive at the Italian championships there are few who have the idea of winning, but the happened and it’s beautiful. After a really difficult couple of years we are slowly returning to normal. How do I celebrate? I go home and rest ”.
Absolute team titles
To obtain the male title the Archers Rocca Flea (Garofoli, Locchi, Nati), an Umbrian team that in the decisive head to head overcame the Arcieri Club Napoli (Carrasco, Colucci, Schember) 6-2, with the Archers Fivizzano in third place. In women, confirmation for the Archers of the Alps (Medico, Pavan and Rampa) who repeat the success of 2021 by winning 6-0 in the final over the Archers of the City of Pescia, with Arco Roma on the third step of the podium.
Class titles
Among the Seniors the top positions in the standings are occupied by both men and women by the six blues who participated in the European Championships in Lasko, among the gold men for Valter Basteri (Frecce Apuane) with 553 points, silver for Daniele Bellotti (Arcieri Fivizzano ) with 547 and bronze to Simone Barbieri (Malin Archery Team) with 543. The women’s ranking sees Cinzia Noziglia (Fiamme Oro) in first place with 541 points, ahead of Laura Turello (Arcieri Udine) with 538 and Fabia Rovatti (Ki Oshi) with 522. Among the Masters the new Italian champion is Alessandro Morini of the Ypsilon Arco Club (537), second position for Paolo Corradi degli Arcieri il Falco (536) and third for Ferruccio Berti degli Arcieri di Volpiano (535). Female success for Marina Papa (Arco Sport Roma) with 499 points, nine more than Daniela Sacco (Arcieri Tigullio) second and Sara Siliani (Arcieri Lupi Sesto Fiorentino) third. The Junior male ranking sees Simone Figliola of the Archers of the Ortica excel with 517 points, the silver goes to Davide Morra (Arcieri Alpignano) with 515 and the bronze to Nicola Paolucci (Arcieri Ancona) with 494. Italian title for Giulia Francesca Speziani (Kappa Kosmos Rovereto) with 516 points, second place for Alice Lazzaro (Arcieri Felsinei) with 496 and third for Alessia Bussetto (Arcieri Varian) with 474. Giulio Locchi (Arcieri Rocca Flea) triumphs in the Allievi class with a score of 515, silver for Devis Florian (Arcieri Villa Guidini) with 503 and bronze for Andrea Galletta (Arcieri Monti Erei) with 496. Female gold for Ludovica Rotundo (Arcieri Lucani Potenza) with 462 points in front of Kaede Marsili (Arcieri Varian) with 436 and Nina De Luca (Baupark Archery Barcellona PG) with 424. Among the boys he takes home the Italian title Nicola Uccheddu (Sardara Archery Team) with a score of 478, silver for Francesco Ramanzini (Arcieri Città di Pescia) with 451 and bronz or to Luca Milani (Arcieri Tre Torri) with 449. In the female ranking, Diana Sitkevich (Arcieri Altopiano Piné) wins with a score of 458, second position for Monica Pizzutto (Arcieri della Fenice) with 404 and third for Barbara Feltre (Arcieri Altopiano Pinè) with 385.
Team class titles
With 1600 points, the company Arcieri Fivizzano (Bellotti, Olivieri, Giannini) wins the Senior title in front of the Arcieri Club Napoli (Carrasco, Colucci, Schember) with 1533 and the Frecce Apuane (Basteri Bruni, Rappelli) with 1530. Female success for the Archers City of Pescia (Bacin, Pennacchi, Lascut) with 1493 points, silver to Ki Oshi (Rovatti, Campeggi, Gan) with 1442 and bronze to the Archers of the Alps (Rampa, Palermo, Giordano) with 1384. Among the male Masters the Archers The Falco (Corrado, Censi, Narcisi) are the new Italian champions with 1575 points, at 1528 the Archers of the Sun (Alberti, Volpi, Capoferri) are second while the Archers of the Alps (Di Nardo, Rovai, Di Vita) with 1525 they are third parties. In the women’s competition Arco Sport Roma triumphs (Papa, Fantini, Rufo) with 1451 points ahead of CUS Roma (Balboni, Di Gravio, Zarbà) with 1372 and the Archers Città di Pescia (Sacchetti, Migliani, Peregrini) with 1362.
In the Junior category first place for the Lucani Potenza Archers (MIglionico, Vendegna, Mazzilli) with 1335 points, second for the Alpignano Archers (Morra, Feliciello, Arcella) with 1302 and third for the Piave Archers (Marchet, Disconzi, Conte) with 1092. In the women’s category, gold at the AGA (Scorza, Rovati, Zeni) with 1173 and silver at the Arcieri Torres Sassari (Cosso, Budroni, Solinas) with 1092. Among the students, the Archers Rocca Flea (Longhi, Inghilleri, Hamami) win with the score of 1374, second position for the Villa Guidini Archers (Florian, Luzza, Fedalto) with 1345 and third for the Arcieri del Piave (Andrighetti, Tiberio, De Simoi) with 1186. In the female success for the Villa Guidini Archers (Trevisan, Berto, Camelato) with 1143 points, silver for the Archers Altopiano Pinè (Moschen, Melchiori, Conci) with 1050 and bronze for the GA Marengo (Atzori, Vazzola, Cabella) with 745. In the Ragazzi class, the Annuagras (Dessì, Spanu , Cappellu) with 1089 points ahead of Arcieri del Piav and (Roncen, Biba, Bordin) with 1044 and the Altopiano Pinè Archers (Avi, Giovannini, Fava) with 966. In the women’s first place for the Altopiano Pinè Archers (Sitkevich, Feltre, Mattivi) with a score of 1195.
Race program
On Friday 25 February the challenges for the Italian title continue and will see the archers of the compound division on the firing line. In the morning the 60 ranking round arrows that assign the class titles and in the afternoon the preliminary rounds and the finals for the absolute tricolors. Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 will instead be the days dedicated to the Olympic arch with the Tokyo 2022 medalists Mauro Nespoli and Lucilla Boari and all the other owners of the expedition to Japanese soil on the field. The first day will assign the class titles, while the second will be entirely dedicated to clashes with the assignment of absolute titles. The four days of competition are streamed live on YouArco, the official Youtube channel of the Italian Archery Federation and simultaneously on the federal social channels (Twitch, Facebook, Twitter). Saturday’s finals will also be broadcast in live streaming on “Sport2U”, while a summary of Sunday’s finals will be broadcast on Rai Sport.
