Instructors
Ennio Falco : Ennio Falco (born January 3, 1968) is an Italian sports shooter and Olympic Champion. He won Gold medal in Skeet Shooting in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Falco has three silver medals from the World Championships in Skeet Shooting, from 1997, 2001 and 2005, as well as bronze medals from 1994 and 2002.
Mairaj Ahmad Khan : Mairaj Ahmed Khan (born 2 November 1975, in Khurja, District Bulandshahar) is an Indian shooter in the shotgun skeet discipline. He won the Olympics quota in the Shotgun Skeet Event in Lonato, Italy in September 2015, the first Indian to qualify in this discipline.
In 2016, he won silver at ISSF World Cup held in April in Rio de Janeiro, the host country for 2016 Olympics.
He is the first and only Indian to have held both the World Cup title as well as the Olympic quota for India at the same time, a feat he accomplished by capturing the Silver Medal at the 2016 ISSF World Cup Championship in Rio as well as a quota place for the shotgun skeet event for the Olympics in 2016. He is the first Indian athlete to represent India in the SK125 Event during the Rio Olympic Games. He is ranked 10th in the world and 6th in Asia; he has been an international level shooter for over 15 years and won multiple accolades including medals won during the Commonwealth Shooting Championship, Asian Championships, South Asian Federation and National and International Championships.
Riccardo Fillipelli : Riccardo Filippelli (born 4 July 1980) is an Italian skeet shooter who has represented Italy in several major international competitions. A member of the Carabinieri and Esercito sports groups, he has been coached by Olympic champion Andrea Benelli. Filippelli first gained international attention in 2017 when he won the ISSF World Cup Final in New Delhi with a near-perfect score of 59 out of 60, equalling the world record and claiming his first major title. The following year, at the 2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Changwon, South Korea, he earned the bronze medal in men’s skeet, which also secured an Olympic quota place for Italy at the Tokyo 2020 Games. Over his career, he has been part of record-breaking Italian teams and has also won medals in mixed skeet events, including a silver medal at the 2019 European Games with Diana Bacosi. Filippelli is recognized as one of Italy’s consistent performers in shotgun shooting, combining technical precision with experience on the international stage.
