Target shooting. Pontedera adjusts its aim. Here are the first results of the season

The competitive season has begun for the shooters of the Pontedera Shooting Club, which last year ranked in...

di LUCA BONGIANNI
20 March 2025
The competitive season has begun for the shooters of the Pontedera Shooting Club, which last year ranked in...

The competitive season has begun for the shooters of the Pontedera Shooting Club, which last year ranked in...

The competitive season for the shooters has begun Pontedera shooting range, which last year ranked 28th out of over 200 sections in the Italian non-ISSF shooting range ranking. The tests of Italian championship They are carried out in various locations and then the results are added together to determine the ranking, which at the end of the season will decide the participants in the final for the title.

In the 25-meter championship compressed air rifles the shooters of Pontedera have chosen the location of Bassano del Grappa (the other was Benevento) and have lined up: Michele Niccolai, Flavio Chini, Dino Niccolini, Riccardo Poggianti, Alessandro Matteoli and Carlo Mansi. Here are the podiums: Diottra Air, 2nd Alessandro Matteoli and 3rd Carlo Mansi, Sporter Rimfire, 2nd Michele Niccolai.

In the Production 50m Rifle Championship cal.22lr one of the competitions was in Pisa (the other competition venues were Milan, Naples and Bologna) and the following took to the shooting tables with the colors of TSN Pontedera: Graziana Forzoni, Anna Mannucci, Alessandro Matteoli, Carlo Mansi, Alessandro Favilli and Adolfo Filippi. Excellent 3rd place for Alessandro Matteoli in Diottra 50m out of 92 participants.

In the meantime, the engines are warming up for the weekend of 5 and 6 April when the Pontedera shooting range will be the theatre (together with Palmi) of the second match of the Italian championship. Bench Rest at 25m, and shooters from half of Italy are expected.

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