Pardini Armi conquers nine medals at the Paris Olympics
Pardini Armi's olympic palmarés grows of nine more medals as the Paris 2024 games wrap: the company confirms its global leadership in pistol shooting events
The order of the factors (the winning athletes) may have changed, but the results didn't: if anything, they drastically improved. The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris saw Pardini Armi win nine medals, improving on the excellent results already scored at Tokyo 2020 and Rio 2016 (seven medals each).
The Olympic shooting matches opened with the qualifications for the air pistol competition. Three Pardini athletes were on the line: Paolo Monna (Italy), Christian Reitz (Germany) and Viktor Bankin (Ukraine). The 60 shot competition saw Reitz (580-22x) and Monna (579 – 18x) qualify for the final, with Bankin (576-20x) missing out and finishing at the eighth place by just one point.
On July 27th, at the finals, 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 25m Pistol podium, fully conquered by Pardini: Jiin Yang (KOR, gold); Camille Jedrzejewski (FRA, silver) and Veronika Major (HUN, bronze)
The Men's Rapid Fire Pistol podium, fully conquered by Pardini: Yuehong Li (PRC, gold); Yeongjae Cho (KOR, silver) and Xinjie Wang (PRC, bronze)
The Men's 10m Air Pistol podium: Xie Yu (PRC, gold); Federico Nilo Maldini (ITA, silver) and Paolo Monna, a Pardini shooter (ITA, bronze)
The 25m Women's Pistol event brought three medals to Pardini's Olympic palmares. The finals, on August 3, saw Korean shooter Jiin Yang prevail over Camille Jedrzejewski (France) and Veronika Major (Hungary), 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. The 2024 Paris Olympics mark the third consecutive edition, after Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, in which Pardini pistols conquered the entire specialty podium.
The Pardini K12 pistol that won the bronze medal with Paolo Monna
The Pardini LSH20 pistol won two bronze medals in the Pentathlon
The 25m Men's Rapid Fire Pistol event marked another largely anticipated success for the Italian company, as all the shooters were using Pardini SP-RF pistols. The finals 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: four consecutive editions of success.
The Pardini SP pistol conquered the full podium in Women's 25m pistol
The Pardini SP-RF pistol conquered the full podium in Men's Rapid Fire pistol
But that's not all. With two additional bronze medals – won respectively by Italian shooter Giorgio Malan in Men's Pentathlon on August 10 and Korean shooter Sung Seungming in Women's Pentathlon on August 11the women's Pentathlon on 11 August – Pardini Armi achieved its best result ever, taking the final spoils of the Paris 2024 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 (40 overall) at this edition of the Olympic Games.
On the foreground, Pardini shooter Giorgio Malan (ITA), bronze winner in Men's pentathlon
Pardini shooter Seungmin Sung (KOR), bronze winner in Women's pentathlon
The success at the 2024 Olympic Games brings Pardini Armi's overall olympic palmarés to 40 medals.
A "great achievement", according to company founder Giampiero Pardini, who ahead of the competitions had stressed the certainty of at the very least six medals, since 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 goes on "with the same 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 as he reiterates, "without this team I would have been nobody", 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.