28/2/2018 - THE ISSF WORLD CUP IS ABOUT TO START: FIOCCHI TEAM FLIES TO GUADALAJARA

28Feb2018

The 2018 ISSF World Cup is about to kick off in Mexico with the first competition of a crucial season. A season that will bring the best shooters in the world to compete, in September, for the first set of Olympic quota places for Tokyo 2020.

Once again, Fiocchi Team athletes will be among the protagonists, trying to match or to best their performance in 2017, when they claimed a total of 33 medals: ten golds, eleven silvers and twelve bronzes.

The Italian part of the team based in Via Santa Barbara in Lecco will be headlined by current world champions Jessica Rossi and Gabriele Rossetti, who are going to lead a group of young and talented shooters like Lucia Palmitessa and Simone D’Ambrosio, while legendary four-time Olympic medalist Giovanni Pellielo will try to write another page in the book of his amazing career.

Among Fiocchi’s international shooters, then, Argentina’s Federico Gil, New Zealand’s Natalie Rooney and Slovakia’s Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova will lead a pack of experienced and decorated athletes.

At the end of the Mexican stage, the World Cup will then travel to Changwon (KOR) and Siggiewi (MLT), then concluding in Tucson (USA).

However, the most awaited competition of the season will come in September, when all the lights are going to be on Changwon: indeed, from August 31st to September 15th, the Korean city will host the 52nd ISSF World Championship in all events, where world title and for the first Olympic quotas up for grabs.