Alessandra Perilli

Alessandra Perilli competed in SHOOTING

Did you know?

• Shooting has 15 medal events, divided into three different groups: rifle, pistol and shotgun.
• In the rifle and pistol competitions, marksmen aim at targets ranging from 10 to 50 metres away.
• In the shotgun event, competitors shoot at clay targets propelled at a series of different directions and angles.
• Shooting has been an Olympic sport since the first modern Games in 1896 but the events were very different back then.
• There was live pigeon shooting in Paris in 1900 and pistol duelling at the unofficial Games six years later - when participants shot at mannequins in frock coats.