Jessica Rossi is once again on top of the world. The Italian shooter has claimed her fifth world title in trap, a discipline of clay pigeon shooting, triumphing at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar. It is a double success: in addition to the gold medal, the 34-year-old from Emilia has also secured an Olympic quota place for the 2028 Los Angeles Games – the first for Italy in this discipline.
Rossi beats defending Olympic champion The London 2012 Olympian built her success on a top-class performance. After finishing the qualifying round with 119 targets hit out of 125, she went into the final with the highest score. In the decisive round, she held off a challenge from Guatemala’s Adriana Ruano Oliva, the 2024 Paris Olympic champion, edging her out by a single clay pigeon: 27/30 to 26/30.
Third place went to the neutral competitor Daria Semianova with 19/25. For Rossi, this marks yet another extraordinary achievement in a career already brimming with success. Following her first junior world gold in Nicosia in 2007, the champion from Crevalcore went on to win three senior world titles in Maribor in 2009, Lima in 2013 and Moscow in 2017.
In Doha she secured her fifth world title, cementing her place among the greats of international clay-pigeon shooting. Italy also takes gold in the team event The Italian team’s day was rounded off by Erica Sessa’s fourth-place finish, whilst Silvana Maria Stanco finished in sixteenth place.
The three Italians, however, made up for it in the team event: with 348 targets out of 375, Rossi, Sessa and Stanco won the gold medal ahead of the Czech Republic and Turkey, both of which finished on 340.
