Italians Massimo Fabbrizi and Alessia Iezzi took the last gold medal of the 2025 ISSF World Championship Shotgun near Athens, Greece, beating San Marino's Gian Marco Berti and Alessandra Perilli for the trap mixed team title at the Malakasa Shooting Range.
Bronze went the way of the United States' Walton Eller and Ava-Elizabeth Downs, following victory over Egypt's Ahmed Zahar and Maggy Ashmawy.
Gold Medal Match
Massimo Fabbrizi and Alessia Iezzi secured their spot in the gold medal match without the stress of a shoot-off, scoring a combined total of 145 to finish top of the standings. Fabbrizi, an Olympic silver medallist and two-time world champion partnered with Iezzi, whose sole ISSF World Cup victory came in 2021 in the mixed team event. She was also the 2017 ISSF World Cup Final champion.
Meanwhile their opponents, Gian Marco Berti and Alessandra Perilli, have a partnership that has brought them an Olympic silver medal, which made Berti the first man to win an Olympic medal for San Marino, back at Tokyo 2020. Perilli had already won the nation's first-ever medal just two days earlier when she won bronze in the women's trap. Perilli is a two-time World Cup Final champion and despite making three finals individually, had never won a world medal before they secured at least a silver coming into this. They made the top two after a four-way shoot-off.
The first round saw Perilli open with consecutive misses, but soon composed herself. Berti and Fabbrizi hit all five targets, while Iezzi missed once. The second round saw a miss from Fabbrizi on his ninth target, allowing San Marino to draw level. However, Berti would miss on his 10th to keep the one-point gap at 18-17. Italy started to pull away with comfort after a difficult third round for their opponents. Perilli recorded another double miss and Berti would miss his last shot too. To add insult to injury, the Italians had a clean round and the deficit was now four.
Even a difficult fourth round for Iezzi - where she missed three of her shots - would not damage their lead too much. While Perilli scored all five, Berti missed two himself. With a gap of three and Fabbrizi in superb form, Italy cruised in the final round, with the London 2012 medallist clearing 24 of their 25 shots. Iezzi had another clean round to secure the gold, with the score finishing 45-40. Both Italians won their third world gold - Fabbrizi has two men's trap titles already to his name, while Iezzi is a women's trap team champion and became junior world champion in 2015.
Bronze went the way of the United States' Walton Eller and Ava-Elizabeth Downs, following victory over Egypt's Ahmed Zahar and Maggy Ashmawy.
Gold Medal Match
Massimo Fabbrizi and Alessia Iezzi secured their spot in the gold medal match without the stress of a shoot-off, scoring a combined total of 145 to finish top of the standings. Fabbrizi, an Olympic silver medallist and two-time world champion partnered with Iezzi, whose sole ISSF World Cup victory came in 2021 in the mixed team event. She was also the 2017 ISSF World Cup Final champion.
Meanwhile their opponents, Gian Marco Berti and Alessandra Perilli, have a partnership that has brought them an Olympic silver medal, which made Berti the first man to win an Olympic medal for San Marino, back at Tokyo 2020. Perilli had already won the nation's first-ever medal just two days earlier when she won bronze in the women's trap. Perilli is a two-time World Cup Final champion and despite making three finals individually, had never won a world medal before they secured at least a silver coming into this. They made the top two after a four-way shoot-off.
The first round saw Perilli open with consecutive misses, but soon composed herself. Berti and Fabbrizi hit all five targets, while Iezzi missed once. The second round saw a miss from Fabbrizi on his ninth target, allowing San Marino to draw level. However, Berti would miss on his 10th to keep the one-point gap at 18-17. Italy started to pull away with comfort after a difficult third round for their opponents. Perilli recorded another double miss and Berti would miss his last shot too. To add insult to injury, the Italians had a clean round and the deficit was now four.
Even a difficult fourth round for Iezzi - where she missed three of her shots - would not damage their lead too much. While Perilli scored all five, Berti missed two himself. With a gap of three and Fabbrizi in superb form, Italy cruised in the final round, with the London 2012 medallist clearing 24 of their 25 shots. Iezzi had another clean round to secure the gold, with the score finishing 45-40. Both Italians won their third world gold - Fabbrizi has two men's trap titles already to his name, while Iezzi is a women's trap team champion and became junior world champion in 2015.
Walton Eller and Ava-Elizabeth Downs took the bronze medalBronze Medal Match
The other winners in the shoot-off were the Americans Walton Eller and Ava-Elizabeth Downs and Ahmed Zahar and Maggy Ashmawy from Egypt, who finished ahead of Slovakia's Erik Varga and Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova.
The opening 10 shots for each team were showed a mix of fortunes. The United States started well, clearing all of their four opening shots. By contrast, Egypt missed all four of theirs. The exact same pattern happened in reverse to bring the score level at 4-4. By the end of the first round, the US had a 6-5 lead.
Eller's experience came good in the second round, scoring all of his next five while Downs scored four. Zaher would miss once and Ashmawy twice to make it a 15-12 gap. It was a growing gap that needed to be closed and Egypt would get back into the fight after Zaher had a clear third round and Ashmawy missed just once to outscore the Americans by one and bringing the score line to 23-21.
They would go level in the fourth round briefly after early misses from Eller and Downs, but three consecutive misses from Ashmawy extended the gap back to three. Downs would miss twice in the fifth and final round and with the Egyptians scoring all eight by that point, pressure was on the 20-year-old to score on her last shot to deny the chance of a tie. She would do so, giving the United States the gold medal by a 39-37 margin. For Downs, it was her first world medal and Eller's first in trap, rather than double trap.
The other winners in the shoot-off were the Americans Walton Eller and Ava-Elizabeth Downs and Ahmed Zahar and Maggy Ashmawy from Egypt, who finished ahead of Slovakia's Erik Varga and Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova.
The opening 10 shots for each team were showed a mix of fortunes. The United States started well, clearing all of their four opening shots. By contrast, Egypt missed all four of theirs. The exact same pattern happened in reverse to bring the score level at 4-4. By the end of the first round, the US had a 6-5 lead.
Eller's experience came good in the second round, scoring all of his next five while Downs scored four. Zaher would miss once and Ashmawy twice to make it a 15-12 gap. It was a growing gap that needed to be closed and Egypt would get back into the fight after Zaher had a clear third round and Ashmawy missed just once to outscore the Americans by one and bringing the score line to 23-21.
They would go level in the fourth round briefly after early misses from Eller and Downs, but three consecutive misses from Ashmawy extended the gap back to three. Downs would miss twice in the fifth and final round and with the Egyptians scoring all eight by that point, pressure was on the 20-year-old to score on her last shot to deny the chance of a tie. She would do so, giving the United States the gold medal by a 39-37 margin. For Downs, it was her first world medal and Eller's first in trap, rather than double trap.
Medal standings
| Rank | Nation | Individual | Team | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | ||
| 1 | USA | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||
| 2 | ESP | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| 3 | CRO | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| 4 | ITA | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | CZE | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 6 | CYP | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 6 | MEX | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 6 | SMR | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 9 | AUS | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 9 | DEN | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 9 | GRE | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 9 | IND | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 9 | POL | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 9 | SVK | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 9 | SWE | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 | ||