“I started very badly – admits the archer from Voghera, – I hope to reverse the trend starting from the mixed team with Chiara Rebagliati”
The archer from Voghera Mauro Nespoli started his participation in the fourth consecutive Olympics with a performance below his standards, finishing in 24th place in the ranking. At Yumenoshima Park Archery Field it was a rather complicated first day of competition for archers forced to shoot with very hot sun and humidity that put a strain on their performances, so much so that they were forced to enter the field at the end of the female qualification for a failure to a Russian athlete. At the end of the 72 round ranking arrows, all the scoreboards of the direct, individual, team and mixed team matches have been defined, which will be today’s appointment.
Nespoli showed up at the men’s race which took place between 1pm and 3pm in Tokyo with the sun going down steeply on the competition field where the perceived temperature was very high due to humidity. After a very difficult start, the archer of the DLF Voghera recovered positions but finished the ranking round in twenty-fourth place with 658 points, a score certainly below his possibilities. Mauro Nespoli in the end could not hide his anger at the result obtained and, at the same time, his desire for revenge in view of the head-to-head clashes: “Luckily this qualification is over. I started very badly, I tried to recover as much as I could , which is difficult at these levels and, in the end, despite having risen many positions, I still closed with the worst ranking round of the season. All is not lost, I have to turn the page and look at the next challenges. qualification but to lose immediately in direct clashes: I hope to reverse the trend, both in the mixed team and in individual matches ».
On the other hand, the predictions of the eve of the Koreans and the American Brady Ellison were confirmed. South Korean Kim Je Deok finished in first place with 688 points, followed by Ellison (682) and Oh Jin Hyek (681). To determine the position in the initial classification of the mixed team to the points of the Vogherese archer, those obtained from the excellent Olympic debut of the Italian Chiara Rebagliati must be added: the 24-year-old from Savona scored 658 points, finishing in tenth place. She is the best of the Italians and it is with her that Nespoli will be on the platform today. The sum of the points of the blue couple places Italy in eleventh place in the mixed team (1316) which will lead the two blues to challenge Holland (Schloesser, Wijler) who finished sixth with 1327. In the individual Mauro Nespoli will compete on Tuesday, challenging the Slovenian Ziga Ravnikar at 2.43 am Italian time).