The gold medal match for the trap mixed team title will take place between neighbours Italy and San Marino, following qualification on the final day of the ISSF World Championship Shotgun near Athens, Greece.
Massimo Fabbrizi and Alessia Iezzi were the top of the standings with a score of 145 from 150 targets securing their spot. Iezzi had the joint-highest score amongst other women's athletes with 72, while Fabbrizi scored 73.
Their opponents for the world title will be Gian Marco Berti and Alessandra Perilli, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medallists, representing the enclave of San Marino. Showing great consistency, both scored 72 for a total of 144.
All four athletes will be competing for the medals at the World Championship for the first time in mixed team contest, but Berti and Perilli had a more difficult run to the final. They were involved in a four-way battle for that second spot. Others to tie them on 144 were the American pair of Walton Eller and Ava-Elizabeth Downs, Egypt's Ahmed Zaher and Maggy Ashmawy, and Erik Varga and Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova of Slovakia.
Both Eller and Zaher were amongst the highest men's scorers with a score of 74, while Stefecekova scored 72, a joint-highest in the women's ranks. Slovakia were the first to drop out in the shoot-off, with a score of one, followed by Egypt who missed after their third shot, but secured a top four spot. Eller and Downs would then miss the chance to go for gold, missing their eighth shot that was cleared by San Marino.
All eight athletes involved in the medal matches have not made the final four before in trap mixed team. San Marino has been guaranteed its first ISSF World Championship medal since 2010 when both the men's and women's trap teams took bronze. With at least a silver secured, it ensures San Marino's best-ever result at the World Championships.
To date, Egypt have won just five World Championship medals and will hope to make that six in the bronze medal match. Eller and Downs notably have an age gap of 23 years between them. Eller, a great in the formerly-contested double trap, will be hoping to win his first world medal in the trap discipline at 43, while Downs is into her first international final at the age of 20 after missing out by narrow margins twice this season on the ISSF World Cup circuit.
Massimo Fabbrizi and Alessia Iezzi were the top of the standings with a score of 145 from 150 targets securing their spot. Iezzi had the joint-highest score amongst other women's athletes with 72, while Fabbrizi scored 73.
Their opponents for the world title will be Gian Marco Berti and Alessandra Perilli, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medallists, representing the enclave of San Marino. Showing great consistency, both scored 72 for a total of 144.
All four athletes will be competing for the medals at the World Championship for the first time in mixed team contest, but Berti and Perilli had a more difficult run to the final. They were involved in a four-way battle for that second spot. Others to tie them on 144 were the American pair of Walton Eller and Ava-Elizabeth Downs, Egypt's Ahmed Zaher and Maggy Ashmawy, and Erik Varga and Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova of Slovakia.
Both Eller and Zaher were amongst the highest men's scorers with a score of 74, while Stefecekova scored 72, a joint-highest in the women's ranks. Slovakia were the first to drop out in the shoot-off, with a score of one, followed by Egypt who missed after their third shot, but secured a top four spot. Eller and Downs would then miss the chance to go for gold, missing their eighth shot that was cleared by San Marino.
All eight athletes involved in the medal matches have not made the final four before in trap mixed team. San Marino has been guaranteed its first ISSF World Championship medal since 2010 when both the men's and women's trap teams took bronze. With at least a silver secured, it ensures San Marino's best-ever result at the World Championships.
To date, Egypt have won just five World Championship medals and will hope to make that six in the bronze medal match. Eller and Downs notably have an age gap of 23 years between them. Eller, a great in the formerly-contested double trap, will be hoping to win his first world medal in the trap discipline at 43, while Downs is into her first international final at the age of 20 after missing out by narrow margins twice this season on the ISSF World Cup circuit.