Maura Genovesi
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |
 Italy |
| Born |
25 May 1973 Lucca, Italy |
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Shooting |
| Event(s) |
10 m air pistol (AP40) 25 m pistol (SP) |
| Club | Gruppo Sportivo Forestale[1] |
| Coached by | Aldo Andreotti[1] |
Maura Genovesi (born May 25, 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 Zsofia 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]
References
- 1 2 3 "CONI Profile – Maura Genovesi" (in Italian). Italian National Olympic Committee. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
- ↑ "Maura Genovesi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
- ↑ "ISSF Profile – Maura Genovesi". ISSF. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
- ↑ "Tiro a Segno: Maura Genovesi seconda a Rio nella Pistola Sportiva" [Shooting: Maura Genovesi finishes second in sport pistol at Rio] (in Italian). Blogo Italiano. 27 March 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 10m Air Pistol Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 25m Pistol Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 25 January 2013.