(ANSA) - PARIS, AUG 5 - Italy's Diana Bacosi and Gabriele
Rossetti won the gold medal in the mixed team skeet shooting at
the 2024 Paris Olympics on Monday, beating Americans Austen
Smith and Vincent Hancock 45-44 in the final.
Rossetti missed only one shot in the final while Bacosi showed a
cool head in the closing series, making all of the last four
shots needed to seal the win.
It was Italy's ninth gold medal of the Games and the second of
the day after gymnast Alice D'Amato won the balance beam.
Her team mate Manila Esposito clinched bronze and China's Yaqin
Zhou won silver.
American gymnastics great Simone Biles was off the podium in
fifth position after making a mistake. (ANSA).
Olympics: Italy win gold in mixed team skeet shooting
Bacosi and Rossetti beat Americans 45-44