Maura Genovesi

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Maura Genovesi
Personal information
NationalityFlag of Italy.svg  Italy
Born (1973-05-25) 25 May 1973 (age 49)
Lucca, Italy
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight54 kg (119 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s)10 m air pistol (AP40)
25 m pistol (SP)
Club Gruppo Sportivo Forestale [1]
Coached byAldo Andreotti [1]

Maura Genovesi (born 25 May 1973 in Lucca) is an Italian sport shooter. [2] She won a silver medal in women's sport pistol at the 2008 ISSF World Cup series in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, accumulating a score of 784.9 points. [3] [4] Genovesi is a member of the shooting team for Gruppo Sportivo Forestale, and is coached and trained by Aldo Andreotti. [1]

Genovesi represented Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in two pistol shooting events. She placed twenty-eighth out of forty-four shooters in the women's 10 m air pistol, by one point ahead of Hungary's Zsófia Csonka from the final attempt, with a total score of 378 targets. [5] Three days later, Genovesi competed for her second event, 25 m pistol, where she was able to shoot 291 targets in the precision stage, and 285 in the rapid fire, for a total score of 576 points, finishing only in twenty-fourth place. [6]

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References

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