Giovanni Pellielo
Personal information
NicknameJohnny
National teamItaly
Born (1970-01-11) 11 January 1970 (age 54)
Vercelli, Italy
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight93 kg (205 lb)
Sport
CountryItaly
SportShooting
EventTrap
ClubFiamme Azzurre[1]
Start activity1991 (senior)[2]
Coached byAlbano Pera
Medal record
Men's shooting
Representing  Italy
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 3 1
World Championships 16 6 3
World Cup 10 2 7
World Cup Final 7 7 2
European Championships 18 8 5
European Games 1 1 1
Mediterranean Games 3 1 1
Total 55 28 20
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Trap
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing Trap
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Trap
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney Trap
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1993 Barcelona Trap team
Gold medal – first place 1994 Fagnano Trap team
Gold medal – first place 1995 Nicosia Trap
Gold medal – first place 1995 Nicosia Trap team
Gold medal – first place 1997 Lima Trap
Gold medal – first place 1997 Lima Trap team
Gold medal – first place 1998 Barcelona Trap
Gold medal – first place 1998 Barcelona Trap team
Gold medal – first place 2005 Lonato del Garda Trap team
Gold medal – first place 2009 Maribor Trap team
Gold medal – first place 2010 Munich Trap team
Gold medal – first place 2011 Belgrade Trap team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Lima Trap
Gold medal – first place 2014 Granada Trap team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Moscow Trap team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lonato del Garda Trap team
Silver medal – second place 1993 Barcelona Trap
Silver medal – second place 2003 Nicosia Trap
Silver medal – second place 2003 Nicosia Trap team
Silver medal – second place 2007 Nicosia Trap team
Silver medal – second place 2015 Lonato del Garda Trap
Silver medal – second place 2015 Lonato del Garda Trap team
Silver medal – second place 2023 Baku Trap team
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Lahti Trap
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Granada Trap
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Changwon Trap team
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2023 Kraków-Małopolska Mixed trap
Silver medal – second place 2019 Minsk Mixed trap
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Baku Trap
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1997 Sipoo Trap
Gold medal – first place 2009 Osijek Trap
Gold medal – first place 2015 Maribor Trap
Silver medal – second place 1999 Poussan Trap
Silver medal – second place 2001 Zagreb Trap
Silver medal – second place 2005 Belgrade Trap
Silver medal – second place 2010 Kazan Trap
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Montecatini Trap
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 1997 Bari Trap
Gold medal – first place 2005 Almería Trap
Gold medal – first place 2013 Mersin Trap
Silver medal – second place 2009 Pescara Trap
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Tarragona Trap

Giovanni Pellielo (born 11 January 1970) is an Italian sport shooter. He won the silver medal in Men's trap at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and also earned a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and a silver medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and 2016 Rio Olympics.[3]

Biography

Giovanni Pellielo is trained by the Olympic champion and technical commissioner of the Italian national team Albano Pera.[4] He won ten stages of the World Cup[5] and fifteen medals at the World Cup Final from 1992 to 2015.[6]

Since 2016, Pellielo has been an ordained bishop in the liberal Catholic Holy Celtic Church International.[7]

Medals

Olympic Games

Event 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
Trap (mixed) 10th
145+48 		Not held
Trap (men) Not held 13th
120 		3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bronze
116+24 		2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silver
122+24 		2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silver
120+23 		8th
121 		2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silver
122+27

World Championships

Pellielo won 25 medal, 9 individual[8] and 16 in team events,[9] at the World Shooting Championships.

Edition Venue Event Individual Team Other teammates
1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
1993 Spain Barcelona Trap 0 1 0 1 0 0 Roberto Scalzone, Marco Venturini
1994 Italy Fagnano Olona Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Roberto Scalzone, Marco Venturini
1995 Cyprus Nicosia Trap 1 0 0 1 0 0 Marcello Tittarelli, Marco Venturini
1997 Peru Lima Trap 1 0 0 1 0 0 Roberto Scalzone, Rodolfo Viganò
1998 Spain Barcelona Trap 1 0 0 1 0 0 Marcello Tittarelli, Marco Venturini
2002 Finland Lahti Trap 0 0 1 0 0 0
2003 Cyprus Nicosia Trap 0 1 0 0 1 0 Marco Venturini, Massimo Fabbrizi
2005 Italy Lonato Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Massimiliano Mola, Massimo Fabbrizi
2007 Cyprus Nicosia Trap 0 0 0 0 1 0 Erminio Frasca, Massimo Fabbrizi
2009 Slovenia Maribor Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Erminio Frasca, Massimo Fabbrizi
2010 Germany Munich Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Erminio Frasca, Massimo Fabbrizi
2011 Serbia Belgrade Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Rodolfo Viganò, Massimo Fabbrizi
2013 Peru Lima Trap 1 0 0 0 0 0
2014 Spain Granada Trap 0 0 1 1 0 0 Valerio Grazini, Massimo Fabbrizi
2015 Italy Lonato Trap 0 1 0 0 1 0 Valerio Grazini, Massimo Fabbrizi
2017 Russia Moscow Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Valerio Grazini, Daniele Resca
2018 Spain Granada Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Valerio Grazini, Mauro De Filippis
2019 South Korea Changwon Trap 0 0 0 0 0 1 Valerio Grazini, Mauro De Filippis
4 3 2 12 3 1

World Cup

The Shotgun World Cup took place in 5 stages + the World Cup Finals up to 1997, since 1998 it takes place in 4 stages + the World Cup Finals.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2020)
Edition Venue Stage Individual
1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
1992 Italy Lonato WC 4 1 0 0
1992 Germany Suhl WC 5 1 0 0
1993 Italy Fagnano Olona WC 5 1 0 0
1994 Cyprus Nicosia WC 1 1 0 0
1995 Japan Chiba WC 4 1 0 0
1997 India New Delhi WC 1 1 0 0
1998 United States Atlanta WC 3 0 0 1
2001 Italy Lonato WC 3 0 0 1
2002 China Shanghai WC 2 1 0 0
2003 Italy Lonato WC 4 1 0 0
2004 Brazil Americana WC 4 0 0 1
2005 South Korea Changwon WC 1 1 0 0
2009 Belarus Minsk WC 3 1 0 0
2012 United Kingdom London WC 2 0 0 1
2013 United Arab Emirates Al Ain WC 2 0 1 0
2017 India New Delhi WC 1 0 1 0
10 2 4

European Championships

Pellielo won his first medal at senior level at the European Shooting Championships in 1991, at the age of 21, in the edition held in Casalecchio di Reno near Bologna.[2]

Edition Venue Event Individual Team Other temmates
1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
1991 Italy Bologna Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Marco Venturini, Albano Pera
1994 Portugal Lisbon Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Marco Venturini, Roberto Scalzone
1995 Finland Lahti Trap 0 0 0 0 1 0 Marco Venturini, Marcello Tittarelli
1997 Finland Sipoo Trap 1 0 0 1 0 0 Daniele Cioni, Rodolfo Viganò
1999 France Poussan Trap 0 1 0 1 0 0 Marco Venturini, Rodolfo Viganò
2000 Italy Montecatini Terme Trap 0 0 1 1 0 0 Marco Venturini, Rodolfo Viganò
2001 Croatia Zagreb Trap 0 1 0 1 0 0 Marco Venturini, Carlo Angelantoni
2002 Italy Lonato del Garda Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Marco Venturini, Rodolfo Viganò
2003 France Antibes Universal trench 0 1 0 0 0 1
2005 Serbia Belgrade Trap 0 1 0 0 1 0 Massimiliano Mola, Massimo Fabbrizi
2006 Slovenia Maribor Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Erminio Frasca, Massimo Fabbrizi
2008 Cyprus Nicosia Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Erminio Frasca, Massimo Fabbrizi
2009 Croatia Osijek Trap 1 0 0 1 0 0 Erminio Frasca, Massimo Fabbrizi
2010 Russia Kazan Trap 0 1 0 0 1 0 Erminio Frasca, Massimo Fabbrizi
2011 Serbia Belgrade Trap 0 0 0 0 0 1 Rodolfo Viganò, Massimo Fabbrizi
2012 Cyprus Larnaca Trap 0 0 0 0 0 1 Rodolfo Viganò, Massimo Fabbrizi
2014 Hungary Sarlóspuszta Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Mauro De Filippis, Massimo Fabbrizi
2015 Slovenia Maribor Trap 1 0 0 0 0 0
2016 Italy Lonato del Garda Trap 0 0 0 0 0 1 Daniele Resca, Massimo Fabbrizi
2017 Azerbaijan Baku Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Daniele Resca, Mauro De Filippis
2018 Austria Leobersdorf Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Emanuele Buccolieri, Mauro De Filippis
Trap mixed 0 0 0 1 0 0 Jessica Rossi
2019 Italy Lonato del Garda Trap 0 0 0 1 0 0 Valerio Grazini, Mauro De Filippis
3 5 1 15 3 4

Records

Current world records held in trap
Men Qualification 125  Giovanni Pellielo (ITA)
 Ray Ycong (USA)
 Marcello Tittarelli (ITA)
 Lance Bade (USA)
 Pavel Gurkin (RUS)
 David Kostelecký (CZE)
 Massimo Fabbrizi (ITA)
 Massimo Fabbrizi (ITA)
 Michael Diamond (AUS)
 Giovanni Pellielo (ITA)
 Casey Wallace (USA)
 Jean Pierre Brol Cardenas (GUA)
 James Willett (AUS)
 Josip Glasnovic (CRO) 		April 1, 1994
June 9, 1995
June 11, 1996
July 23, 1998
August 10, 2005
October 5, 2006
May 15, 2009
September 6, 2011
August 6, 2012
April 18, 2013
October 16, 2014
August 15, 2015
March 19, 2019
April 9, 2019 		Nicosia (CYP)
Lahti (FIN)
Suhl (GER)
Barcelona (ESP)
Americana (BRA)
Granada (ESP)
Munich (GER)
Belgrade (SRB)
London (ENG)
Al Ain (UAE)
Guadalajara (MEX)
Qabala (AZE)
Guadalajara (MEX)
Al Ain (UAE) 		edit
Teams 369  Italy (Fabbrizi, Pellielo, Vigano) September 6, 2011 Belgrade (SRB) edit
Mixed Team Final 47  Jessica Rossi (ITA)
 Giovanni Pellielo (ITA) 		August 5, 2018 Leobersdorf (AUT) edit

See also

References

  1. ^ "Tiro a volo" (in Italian). polizia-penitenziaria.it. 18 August 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Giovanni Pellielo - Medagliare" (PDF) (in Italian). fitav.it. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Giovanni Pellielo ...e sono quattro!" (PDF) (in Italian). poliziapenitenziaria.it. 12 September 2016. p. 22. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Tiro a volo, Mondiali 2017, Albano Pera: "Ci siamo allenati bene, le temperature sono rigide"" (in Italian). oasport.it. 30 August 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Historical Results - World Cup Trap Men". issf-sports.org. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Historical Results - World Cup Final". issf-sports.org. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  7. ^ Henderson, John (22 May 2021). "The Shooting Bishop's Next Target: His Eighth Olympics". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  8. ^ "Historical Results - Shotgun World Championships Trap men". issf-sports.org. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  9. ^ "Historical Results - Shotgun Team World Championships Trap Men". issf-sports.org. Retrieved 30 May 2020.

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