Mauro Nespoli

Mauro Nespoli, born on 22 November 1987 in Voghera, near Pavia, is an Italian recurve archer who first watched archers on a family holiday in Aprica at the age of nine and trained under Luciano Malovini, himself a Paralympic archer. He was picked for the Italian junior team at fourteen and has been in the senior team since 2006 alongside Marco Galiazzo and Michele Frangilli. At the Olympics he won team silver in Beijing in 2008, team gold in London in 2012 and individual silver in Tokyo in 2020, where Mete Gazoz beat him 6-4 in the final. He also won team recurve gold at the 2022 European Archery Championships in Munich and received the Collare d'Oro for sporting merit from the Italian Olympic Committee.