Sabrina Sena

Sabrina Sena (born March 14, 1985 in Candela, Foggia) is an Italian sport shooter.[3] She has been selected to compete for Italy in rifle shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics and has won a career total of three medals, one gold and two silver, in a major international competition, spanning the World Cup series and the European Championships.[1] Sena is a member of her town's firing shooting range (Italian: Tiro a Segno Candela), and also, a resident athlete of the Italy national shooting team under Swiss-born rifle head coach and five-time Olympian Gabriele Bühlmann.[2][4]

Sabrina Sena
Personal information
Full nameSabrina Sena
Nationality Italy
Born (1985-03-14) 14 March 1985
Candela, Foggia, Italy
Height1.59 m (5 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)10 m air rifle (AR40)
50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)
ClubTiro a Segno Candela[1][2]
Coached byAntonio Verlicchi[1][2]
Medal record
Women's shooting
Representing  Italy
European Championships (10 m)
2015 Arnhem AR40

Sena's sporting debut came as the youngest member of the Italian shooting team (aged 19), when she qualified only for the women's 10 m air rifle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[5] She had registered a minimum qualifying score of 395 from her top finish at the European Junior Championships in Győr, Hungary, to fill out a quota place for the Games, after the Italian Union of Rifle Shooting (UITS) decided to exchange a spot in the air pistol, won by Caterina Padovan at the World Championships in Lahti, Finland, two years earlier, with the air rifle.[1][6] Among the less experienced in the field, Sena demonstrated her best ability to score 390 out of a possible 400 points in the qualifying phase, which was enough for her to finish in thirty-second out of forty-four shooters.[7][8]

In 2014, Sena came to prominence from an Olympic feat ten years earlier with her first gold medal victory over the rest of the field in the rifle three positions at the ISSF World Cup meet in Munich, Germany.[9] The following year, she added a silver to her career tally in rifle shooting at the European Championships (10 m) in Arnhem, Netherlands, with 204.3, losing in a duel to Germany's Selina Gschwandtner by a 2.5-point margin.[10]

References
  1. "ISSF Profile – Sabrina Sena". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. "CONI Profile – Sabrina Sena" (in Italian). Italian National Olympic Committee. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  3. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sabrina Sena". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  4. "Gli azzurri agli Europei 10 metri" [The blue team at the European Champs (10 metres)] (in Italian). Italian National Olympic Committee. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  5. "Gli ori di Atene nel mirino per i ragazzi con la pistola" [Male shooters are searching for the gold in Athens] (in Italian). la Repubblica. 31 July 2004. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  6. "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  7. "Shooting: Women's 10m Air Rifle Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  8. "La bella della carabina non sfila: oggi spara" [The parade of rifle shooters seemed not beautiful today] (in Italian). Il Piccolo. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  9. "Italy's Sena won the Rifle 3 Positions Women final with two 10.9s in a row". ISSF. 11 June 2004. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  10. "Europei 10 metri: Sabrina Sena argento nella carabina" [European Champs 10 metres: Sabrina Sena takes silver in air rifle] (in Italian). Italian National Olympic Committee. 6 February 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2015.


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