Maura Genovesi (born 25 May 1973 in
Lucca
Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957.
Lucca is known as one ...
) is an Italian sport shooter. She won a silver medal in women's sport pistol at the
2008 ISSF World Cup The 2008 ISSF World Cup was the twenty-third annual edition of the ISSF World Cup in the Olympic shooting events, governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation. Four qualification competitions were held in each event, spanning from March ...
series in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, accumulating a score of 784.9 points.
Genovesi is a member of the shooting team for
Gruppo Sportivo Forestale
The Gruppo Sportivo Forestale was the former sport section of the Italian forestry, fishery and environment police force, State Forestry Corps.
History
Founded in 1955, it has now been integrated since 1 January 2017 into the Sports Group of the ...
, and is coached and trained by Aldo Andreotti.
Genovesi represented
Italy
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at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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, where she competed in two pistol shooting events. She placed twenty-eighth out of forty-four shooters in the
women's 10 m air pistol, by one point ahead of Hungary's
Zsófia Csonka from the final attempt, with a total score of 378 targets. Three days later, Genovesi competed for her second event,
25 m pistol
25 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often known as sport pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It was devised as a women's event in the 1960s, based upon the rules of 25 meter center-fire pistol but shot with a .22-caliber sp ...
, where she was able to shoot 291 targets in the precision stage, and 285 in the rapid fire, for a total score of 576 points, finishing only in twenty-fourth place.
References
External links
NBC 2008 Olympics profile
1973 births
Italian female sport shooters
Living people
Olympic shooters of Italy
Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Lucca
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