Mauro Nespoli (born 22 November 1987, in

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) is an Italian

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who was a member of the Italian teams that won gold at the

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and silver at the

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. and individual silver at Tokyo

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Biography

Nespoli was born in

(

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), the place where he has always lived. He first saw some archers when he was nine, while he was spending his holidays in Aprica (Sondrio). His coach is Luciano Malovini, who was an archer of the

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Italian National Team. In spite of his hard training and attending archery events, Nespoli could achieve good marks at school. He got his graduation Diploma in 2006 and he is now attending university, in Pavia, studying Computer Engineering.

Sport career

He won his first gold medal in the Italian "Giochi della Gioventù" (Youth Games) in 1998. When he was only fourteen, in 2002, he was picked for the Italian Junior National Team for the first time. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Italian Senior National Team, together with

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and

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. In his brief sport career, Nespoli has already participated in 20 international competitions with the Italian National Team and achieved several records too. At the

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Nespoli finished his ranking round with a total of 649 points. This made him the 44th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Alan Wills in the first round. Wills won the match 103–99 and went on to reach the third round in which he lost to Juan Carlos Stevens. Together with

and

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he also took part in the team event. With his 649 score from the ranking round combined with the 667 of Galiazzo and the 670 of Di Buò the Italians were in sixth position after the ranking round. In the first round they were too strong for the

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team 219–217. They advanced to the semi-final by eliminating

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218–213. After that they reached the final by beating

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223–221. In the final they managed to get 225 points, but

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took the gold medal with 227 points. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was eleventh after the ranking round, scoring 674, but lost to Chen Yu-Cheng in the first round. In the team event, Italy were ranked in 6th after the ranking round. Italy proceeded to beat Chinese Taipei 216–206 in the first round, China 220–216 in the quarterfinals, Mexico 217–215 in the semifinals and the United States 219–218 in the final. His final opponent at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was Meta Gazoz who beat him 6–4. He won the bronze medal in the men's team recurve event at the 2022 European Indoor Archery Championships held in Laško, Slovenia. He won the gold medal in the men's team recurve event at the

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held in Munich, Germany. Nespoli and

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won the bronze medal in the mixed team recurve event.

Performance timeline in Outdoor Recurve

Individual

Team

Records

Medals

* 1 Gold Team medal in the World Cup; * 1 Silver Team medal in the Indoor World Championship; * 1 Bronze Team medal in the Outdoor World Championship; * 1 Bronze Team medal in the Outdoor European Championship; * 1 Gold Individual medal in the Outdoor European Junior Cup; * 3 Bronze Team medals in the Outdoor European Junior Cup; * 1 Bronze Individual medal in the Outdoor European Junior Cup; * 5 Gold Individual medals in the Indoor/Outdoor Italian Championship; * 1 Gold Team medal in the Indoor Italian Championship 2003; * 1 Silver Individual medal in the Outdoor Italian Championship 2007; * 2 Silver Individual medals in the Italian Indoor Championship 2008; * 1 Gold medal in the

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European Archery Tournament (Indoor) 2007. * 1 Gold Team medal in the London Olympic Games 2012;

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