Great Britain's Amber Hill, 17, was 28th in Acapulco. There she had become the youngest World Cup gold medallist in the ISSF history in 2013.
Diana Bacosi, Katiuscia Spada, and Chiara Cainero will be the favorite athletes in the Italian team.
Bacosi, 31, was tenth in Acapulco. She was a World Cup Final bronze medallist at Abu Dhabi 2013—in the same year she won silver in Acapulco. Spada, 33, was 17th in Acapulco. She won the 2010 World Cup Final in Izmir, Turkey. Cainero, 36, was eleventh in Acapulco. She was an Olympic Gold Medallist at Beijing 2008.
Germany's Christine Wenzel, 33, was 18th in Acapulco. She won the Women's Skeet World Title in Abu Dhabi in 2013, just five weeks after taking over the ISSF Shotgun World Championship. Last year, she won bronze at the Almaty World Cup Stage.
USA's Kimberly Rhode, 35, won gold in Acapulco. She has been winning Olympic medals since 1996 —gold in Atlanta, Athens, London; silver in Beijing; bronze in Sydney. She didn't make the podium at the latest Granada World Championship, as she came 7th.
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Australia’s Jack Wallace, 17, was a World Championship silver medallist in Granada last year—he was only 19th in the competition’s previous edition, twelve months earlier in Lima. Wallace also won gold at the Oceania Championships in Sydney in 2013. He wasn’t in Acapulco.
Giovanni Cernogoraz of Croatia, 32, didn’t start his competition in Acapulco, although he was supposed to. Cernogoraz won gold at the London 2012 Olympic Games. The only time he won a World Cup medal was in 2011, when he took gold in Beijing, China.
Croatia will hope for the Glasnovic brothers, who will compete for the first time this season. Josip Glasnovic, 31, won two World Cup stage silver medals—Lonato 2010, Nicosia 2013. In Lonato, he also won bronze at a World Championship in 2005. Anton Glasnovic, 34, was a silver medallist at last year’s World Championship in Lima.
Giovanni Pellielo, 45, was not in Acapulco. He is a three-time Olympic Medallist—bronze at Sydney 2000, silver at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Pellielo won the 2013 World Championship in Lima.
Kuwait’s Fehaid Aldeehani, 48, was 14th in Acapulco (and fourth in the Double Trap event, which he also took part in). Aldeehani, 48, won bronze at the Olympic Games both at Sydney 2000 and at London 2012.
Great Britain's Aaron Heading, 27, was 10th in Acapulco. He won a World Cup gold at Al Ain 2013, when he overcame Italy's Pellielo, a 7-time World Cup champion. Heading also won an European Championship in Maribor in 2006.