Roberta Pelosi

Roberta Pelosi (born 11 December 1960, in Rome) is an Italian sport shooter.^[3] She has been selected to compete for Italy at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has established a career tally of eighteen medals in a major international competition, including a world-record breaking gold at the 1998 ISSF World Cup meet in Cairo, Egypt and a silver in women's trap at the 2003 World Shotgun Championships in Nicosia, Cyprus.^[1] Pelosi is a member of Valle Aniene Target Shooting Club (Italian: Tiro a Volo Valle Aniene), and a resident athlete of the Italian Clay Shooting Federation (Italian: Federazione italiana Tiro al Volo), where she trains under head coach and 1996 Olympic double trap medalist Albano Pera.^[2]

Roberta Pelosi

Personal information
Full name	Roberta Pelosi
Nationality	Italy
Born	(1960-12-11) 11 December 1960 (age 63) Rome, Italy
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Sport	Shooting
Event	Trap (TR75)
Club	Tiro a Volo Valle Aniene[1][2]
Coached by	Luigi Pelosi Albano Pera[1][2]
Medal record Women's shooting Representing  Italy World Championships 2003 Nicosia TR75

Pelosi qualified for the Italian team, as a 43-year-old, in the women's trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.^[2] She had registered a minimum qualifying score of 67 to fill out one of the Olympic places awarded to Italy from her top finish at the 2002 ISSF World Cup meet in Suhl, Germany.^[1][4][5] Pelosi scored 58 hits out of a possible 75 to impose a three-way tie with Great Britain's Sarah Gibbins and 2000 Olympic double trap champion Pia Hansen of Sweden for ninth place in the qualifying round, just two targets away from the final cutoff.^[6][7]

References

1. "ISSF Profile – Roberta Pelosi". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
2. "CONI Profile – Roberta Pelosi" (in Italian). Italian National Olympic Committee. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
3. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Roberta Pelosi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
4. "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
5. "Elena e Marco Innocenti in Coppa del Mondo" [Elena and Marco Innocenti at the World Cup] (in Italian). Il Tirreno. 24 June 2003. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
6. "Shooting: Women's Trap Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
7. "Olimpiadi, tiro a volo; trap donne: niente finale per la Pelosi" [Olympic shooting (Women's trap): No finals for Pelosi] (in Italian). la Repubblica. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 17 August 2015.

External links

• Roberta Pelosi at the International Shooting Sport Federation