{"id":501074,"date":"2026-03-03T11:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501074\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:05:17","slug":"three-barebow-world-records-headline-record-breaking-italian-indoor-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501074\/","title":{"rendered":"Three barebow world records headline record-breaking Italian indoor championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 Italian Indoor Championships<\/a> concluded on Sunday at the Nuova Fiera di Roma with a record turnout of more than 1300 archers and three new world records set in the barebow division, subject to ratification.<\/p>\n

Home favourite Giulia Mantilli<\/a> delivered the standout performance of the event, shooting a new barebow women\u2019s world record of 559 at 18 metres on her way to retaining the Italian title. The result surpassed the previous mark by two points and capped a dominant run through the elimination matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe record? No, I didn\u2019t expect it,\u201d Mantilli admitted. \u201cYou can imagine a lot of things, but the previous record was remarkable. I\u2019d already shot 554 in Nimes<\/a>, a great score, and even if you think you might get close, beating it is something else entirely. An incredible feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said she felt strong from the start but avoided tracking the score too closely.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realised I was shooting well, that I was feeling good. I was strong in the first half of the competition, but the second half is always a mystery. Until the very end I didn\u2019t really know where I was or whether I still had a chance of breaking the world record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mantilli explained that the decisive moment came with three arrows remaining.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy coach, Emanuele Alberini<\/a>, stopped me, looked me in the eye, and finally that 30 came out. Those two points allowed me to break the record. A record I fought for until the last arrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Valter Basteri<\/a> also improved the barebow men\u2019s over-50 qualification world record by two points with a score of 566. The previous mark of 564 had been set just weeks earlier, on 15 February, by Erik Jonsson<\/a>. Basteri went on to secure gold after a shoot-off with Francesco Cesaretti in the final.<\/p>\n

A third world record came earlier in the competition from Elisa Medico<\/a>, who improved her own barebow women\u2019s over-50 world record with a score of 531.<\/p>\n

The championships also crowned new Italian indoor champions across the recurve and compound divisions, with Francesco Gregori<\/a> and Roberta Di Francesco<\/a> taking their first senior indoor titles in recurve, and Marco Morello<\/a> and Elisa Roner<\/a> winning compound gold.<\/p>\n

A highlights programme from the event will be broadcast on Rai Sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Italian Indoor Championships concluded on Sunday at the Nuova Fiera di Roma with a record turnout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[228461,4,450,451,3,452,453,32808],"class_list":["post-501074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-barebow","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}