Lucilla Boari (born 24 March 1997) is an Italian recurve archer who has represented

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at the

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and at the

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. She has additionally competed for her country at the

2018 Mediterranean Games The 2018 Mediterranean Games ( es, Juegos Mediterráneos de 2018), officially known as the XVIII Mediterranean Games ( es, XVIII Juegos Mediterráneos) and commonly known as Tarragona 2018, was an international multi-sport event held from 22 Jun ...

and the

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, in which she won an individual gold and silver medal, respectively.

Career

2016 Summer Olympics

Boari secured two qualification spots for her country in the final world qualification tournament for the 2016 Summer Olympics, delivering the shot that claimed victory over Chinese Taipei to give Italy a full Olympic berth of three archers. Boari was subsequently chosen as part of the Italian squad alongside fellow Olympic debutants

Claudia Mandia Claudia Mandia (born ) is an Italian female recurve archer and part of the national team. She won the bronze medal at the 2016 World Indoor Archery Championships The 2016 World Indoor Target Archery Championships was the 13th edition of the W ...

and

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in July 2016. At the Olympic Games the following month, Boari competed in the women's individual and

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events. With teammates Mandia and Sartori, Boari successfully progressed to the semi-finals in the women's team competition, defeating the Brazilian and

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teams before losing to

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. In the bronze medal match their opponents

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were too strong, and the Italian trio finished the competition in fourth place. Boari was however much less successful in the individual tournament, and after placing seventh in the ranking round lost to Australia's Alice Ingley in the opening elimination round.

2018–2019: Post-Olympics

In June 2018, Boari won gold medal in the women's individual event at the Mediterranean Games, defeating the Spain's Mónica Galisteo Cruz in the final. The following year she competed in the European Games, where in the women's individual event she achieved the sixth seed in the 72-arrow ranking round before advancing through the elimination rounds to the gold medal final. She was defeated in the final by compatriot Tatiana Andreoli, earning the silver medal as runner-up.

2020 Summer Olympics

In 2021, she won the bronze medal at the

in the women's individual event. At the same time, she came out as lesbian, revealing that Dutch archer

Sanne de Laat Sanne de Laat (born 13 February 1995) is a Dutch Modern competitive archery, archer competing in women's Compound bow, compound events. She won the silver medal in the women's team event and the bronze medal in the women's individual event at t ...

is her girlfriend.

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