At the Paris Olympics, Pardini Armi improves its best result and confirms its leadership in the pistol events
The order of the factors changes (the winning athletes) but the result does not change. In fact, it improves dramatically. In Paris 2024 Pardini Armi won nine medals, improving the excellent results already obtained in Tokyo 2020 and Rio 2026 (seven medals).
The shooting Olympics opened with the qualifications of the 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 Reitz (580-22x) and Monna (579 – 18x) qualify for the final, with Bankin (576-20x) missing out on eighth place by just one point. In the final on 27 July Paolo Monna won the bronze medal, remaining at the top of the rankings for the entire competition and fighting until the end for the top step of the podium.
The women's pistol event (25m Women's Pistol) brought three medals to Pardini's Olympic palmares. The final on August 3 saw the Korean Jiin Yang prevail over the French Camille Jedrzejewski and the Hungarian Veronika Major, who had finished the qualifying competition in first place, equaling the Olympic record for the specialty (592-27x). Worthy of note, all the competing athletes used the Pardini SP pistol. After Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, it was the third consecutive edition in which Pardini pistols conquered the entire specialty podium.
Another announced success was that of the rapid fire pistol event (25m Men's Rapid Fire Pistol), where all the athletes competing held the Pardini SP RF pistol. The final on August 5th saw the Chinese Yuehong Li prevail by a wide margin (588-30x, 32 in the final) over the Korean Yeongjae Cho (586-22x, 25 in the final) and the other Chinese Xinjie Wang (587-24x). Also in this case, therefore, the dominance of Pardini's tools resulted in three medals, as happened in London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 (fourth consecutive edition).
But it didn't end here. With two further bronze medals - that of the Italian Giorgio Malan in the men's Pentathlon on 10 August and that of the Korean Sung Seungming in the women's Pentathlon on 11 August - Pardini Armi achieved its best result ever, taking the final spoils of these Games to two gold, two silver and five bronze medals. The successes of Monna and Malan were greeted with double pleasure by Giampiero Pardini as they were achieved by Italian athletes who contributed to Italy's extraordinary medal collection at this edition of the Olympic Games.
With these successes, Pardini Armi brings its palmares to 40 Olympic medals. A <great achievement> for Giampiero Pardini, the founder of the company, who even before the competitions began had underlined the certainty of at least six medals: all the athletes of two disciplines (women's pistol and rapid fire pistol) in fact competed with a Pardini. These successes represent a confirmation of the quality of the sports equipment produced by Pardini, which proceeds <with the enthusiasm of 48 years ago, when this adventure began, with the satisfaction of supporting many families around the world (today the company has contacts with over 120 countries) and the certainty that the results are a team success>. Giampiero Pardini has given so much to his company but <without this team I would have been nobody>, he reiterates, recalling how the strength of Pardini Armi is today confirmed by a significant generational turnover, which has also brought the founder's two grandchildren into the company.
