Alberto Fernández yesterday hung the gold medal in the Olympic pit (trap) modality of the clay pigeon shooting World Cup that takes place in Lima after beating the Italian Erminio Frasca in the tiebreaker with which the final was resolved. Fernández, a native of Madrid but a resident of Illescas (Toledo), joins this World Cup gold to those achieved in Sydney (2011), Almaty (2014), Rio de Janeiro and Nicosia (2016) and Acapulco (2017), and in the 2017 New Delhi World Cup Final.
The two-time world champion (2010 and 2018) and Europe (2010 and 2019) and current Olympic champion for mixed teams together with Fátima Gálvez, He was second in qualifying with a total of 121 hits. Later, in his semifinal, he was the best with 23 hits out of a possible 25, ahead of the American Derrick Mein (19), the Luxembourger Lyndon Sosa (17) and the American William Hinton (10 of 15). In the final, Alberto Fernández, 38, won the gold medal by defeating Erminio Frasca in an exciting and long tiebreaker, with whom he had tied at 30 out of 35 targets. The tiebreaker was resolved by 2 hits by the Spaniard for one by the Italian in the three shots they fired.
After them, the American Derrick Mein (20 of 25) and the Mexican Jorge Orozco (10 of 15) finished in the final. In the women’s Olympic pit, Fátima Gálvez (20 out of 25 targets) and Cristina Beltrán (18 out of 25) were third in their respective semifinals and missed out on the final.
