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| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 January 1992 Cento, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Italia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Event(s) | Trap shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jessica Rossi (born 7 January 1992) is a female Italian sports shooter. [2] She has won Olympic gold and three world titles in the women's trap event. [3]
She took up shooting in 2001. [3] Her father Ivan had also competed in shooting for Italy. [4] She won the gold medal in the Women's Trap event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she scored a world record of 75 in the qualification and a world record of 99 in the final. [5] At the time of the 2012 Olympics, she was working as a police officer. [6] She also competed at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. [7]
She has won three world titles in the women's trap, in 2009, 2013 and 2017, alongside silver in 2023 and bronze in 2010. [3] She has also won six world championships in the women's team trap event, in 2009, 2010, 2013 (with Francesca Caporuscio and Silvana Stanco) [8] , 2018, 2022 and 2023, alongside silver in 2014, and bronze in 2017 and 2019. [3]
At European level, she won the women's trap event twice (in 2009, and 2013) alongside three silvers (2012, 2019 and 2021) and two bronze medals (2015, 2022), the women's team event twice (in 2019 and 2022, with silver in 2021) and the mixed team event twice (2021 and 2022, with bronze in 2019). [3] She also won two gold medals at the 2023 European Games, [4] one in the women's trap and one in the mixed team trap event, following silver medals in the same events at the 2019 European Games. [3]
In 2013, she was the ISSF women's shooter of the year. [9] She was also selected to be Italy's flag-bearer at the 2020 Olympics. [4]
| Current world records held in Trap | ||||||||
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| Women | Qualification | 75 |  Jessica Rossi (ITA) | Aug 4, 2012 | London (GBR) | |||
| Final | 99 | Jessica Rossi (ITA) (75+24) | Aug 4, 2012 | London (GBR) | ||||
| Junior Women | Individual | 75 | Jessica Rossi (ITA) | Aug 4, 2012 | London (GBR) | |||
| Mixed Team | Final | 47 | Jessica Rossi (ITA) Giovanni Pellielo (ITA) | August 5, 2018 | Leobersdorf (AUT) | edit | ||
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