David Pasqualucci (born 27 June 1996) is an Italian competitive

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. He won a silver medal in the men's team recurve at the 2015 World Championships, and also competed as a member of Italy's archery squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He currently trains under the tutelage of his coaches Fabio Pivari and

Wietse van Alten Wietse Cornelis van Alten (born 24 September 1978) is a retired archer from the Netherlands. Van Alten was born in Zaandam, in the municipality of Zaanstad. He has competed in archery since the age of seven. Van Alten's first major interna ...

, a Sydney 2000 Olympian from the Netherlands, for the Italian team, while shooting at the Tempio di Diana Archery Range ( it, Arcieri del Tempio di Diana) in

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. Pasqualucci rose to prominence in the international archery scene at the 2015 World Championships in

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, Denmark. There, he and his compatriots

Michele Frangilli Michele Frangilli (born 1 May 1976) is an Italian archer. Biography He was born in Gallarate. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery, finishing in 6th place and winning the bronze medal in the team event. He also ...

and

Mauro Nespoli Mauro Nespoli (born 22 November 1987, in Voghera) is an Italian archer who was a member of the Italian teams that won gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics and silver at the 2008 Summer Olympics. and individual silver at Tokyo 2020 Tokyo Summer Oly ...

, both of whom came as reigning Olympic champions from

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, capture a silver medal in the men's team recurve to secure a full quota spot for

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, despite losing the title 0–6 to the South Koreans. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Pasqualucci was selected to compete for the Italian archery squad, shooting in both individual and team tournaments. First, Pasqualucci managed to score 685 points out of a maximum 720 to lead the Italian trio for the third seed heading to the knockout stage, along with his team's score of 2,007 collected from the classification round. Looking forward to defend the men's team recurve title for Italy, Pasqualacci and his compatriots Nespoli and

Marco Galiazzo Marco Galiazzo (born 7 May 1983, in Padova) is an athlete from Italy. He competes in archery for C.S. Aeronautica Militare, and is a former world number one. He was the first Olympic champion in the Italian archery history, ...

received a bye for the quarterfinals as a third-seeded team, but suffered an untimely defeat to China in a 0–6 upset. Rebounding from his Italian team's quarterfinal exit, Pasqualacci quickly dispatched Malawi's Areneo David in straight sets to book the round two spot in the men's individual recurve, before he bowed out to the Spaniard Antonio Fernández at 2–6.

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* Italian male archers Living people People from Frascati 1996 births Archers at the 2015 European Games Archers at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in archery European Games bronze medalists for Italy World Archery Championships medalists Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for Italy Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital 21st-century Italian people {{Italy-archery-bio-stub