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Maura Genovesi | |
Birth Date: | 25 May 1973 |
Birth Place: | Lucca, Italy |
Weight: | 540NaN0 |
Sport: | Shooting |
Event: | 10 m air pistol (AP40) 25 m pistol (SP) |
Club: | Gruppo Sportivo Forestale |
Coach: | Aldo Andreotti |
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Maura Genovesi (born 25 May 1973 in Lucca) is an Italian sport shooter.[1] 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.[2] [3] Genovesi is a member of the shooting team for Gruppo Sportivo Forestale, and is coached and trained by Aldo Andreotti.[4]
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]