Pia Lionetti

Pia Lionetti (born 26 September 1987 in San Giovanni Rotondo), is an Italian archer and a member of the Italian Olympic Team. She lives in Barletta and attends the University of Foggia.

Biography

She was the Junior World Champion in 2005 winning the individual gold medal and the team gold medal too. In 2006 she won the bronze medal at the European Championships.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Lionetti finished her ranking round with a total of 613 points. This gave her the 51st seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced 14th seed Bérengère Schuh in the first round. The archer from France was too strong with a 112-107 score. Together with Natalia Valeeva and Elena Tonetta she also took part in the team event. With her 613 score from the ranking round combined with the 634 of Valeeva and the 595 of Tonetta the Italian team was in 9th position after the ranking round. In the first round they were too strong for the team from Chinese Taipei, beating them with 215-211. However, in the quarter final they were eliminated by the eventual gold medalists from South Korea, despite a 217 points score. The Koreans managed to shoot a new World Record of 231 points to advance to the semi final.