Mauro Badaracchi (born 20 July 1984 in
Tivoli,
Rome
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) is an Italian sport shooter. He won two gold medals for the air 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 ...
in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and at the 2010 ISSF World Cup in
Belgrade, Serbia
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, accumulating scores of 684.4 and 685.9 points, respectively.
Badaracchi 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 Vincenzo Spilotro.
Badaracchi represented
Italy
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at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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, where he competed in the
men's 10 m air pistol, along with his teammate
Vigilio Fait. He finished only in fortieth place by one point behind New Zealand's
Yang Wang from the fourth attempt, for a total score of 571 targets.
References
External links
NBC 2008 Olympics profile
1984 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tivoli, Lazio
Italian male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for Italy
Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
21st-century Italian people
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