

The Paris 2024 Olympics opened on July 26th with the qualifications for the 10m men's Air Pistol competition. Three Pardini athletes were competing: the Italian Paolo Monna, the German Christian Reitz and the Ukrainian Viktor Bankin. The 60-shot competition saw Monna (579 – 18x) and Reitz (580-22x) qualify for the final, with Bankin (576-20x) missing out on eighth place by just one point.
The final was held at 9:30 on Sunday, July 27th at the Chateauroux Shooting Center and was very hard-fought. Paolo Monna, at his second Olympic participation, won the bronze medal by remaining at the top of the rankings for the entire competition and fighting until the end with the other Italian shooter in the final, Federico Nilo Maldini, and the Chinese Yu Xie, who won the gold by maintaining high concentration until the last shot.



