Ones to watch

  22 June 2015    Read: 1423
Ones to watch
Five highlights for Monday 22 June at the European Games
1. Gunning for more medals
Shooting, from 08:30
The Shooting competition finishes with a bang with three non-Olympic mixed team events.
One of the highlights of the day will come when Niccolo Campriani of Italy, who won silver in the men`s 10m air rifle on Tuesday, teams up with his girlfriend Petra Zublasing, winner of the women`s 50m rifle 3 positions on Friday. The couple shoot for gold in the mixed team 10m air rifle at the Baku Shooting Centre.

2. Big task for Belgium
Volleyball, from 09:00
The final round of men`s pool matches takes place on Monday, and with Pool A`s qualifiers already settled, Pool B takes centre stage. Italy are already out, but Belgium still have a chance to reach the final eight, although Germany stand in their way. The world no.7-ranked side are top and Belgium have to win in four sets or fewer to have a chance to progress to the quarter-finals.

3. Another shot at glory
Archery, from 09:00
Italy`s Mauro Nespoli, London 2012 Olympic Games gold medallist and winner of a team gold medal at Baku 2015, will be going for more glory in the men`s Archery individual event at the Tofiq Bahramov Stadium. Meanwhile, Dutchman Sjef van den Berg is hoping to go one better than his score on Friday - 89 out of 90 - and shoot a perfect round of nine 10s.

4. Won for the book
Sambo, from 10:00
Russia’s Artem Osipenko competes in the men’s +100kg category in Sambo. He is the 2014 world champion, 2015 European champion, three-time world title holder, and has even published a manual, `How to Become a World Champion`.

5. Familiar ring to this bout
Boxing, from 12:30
The big boxing quarter-final showdown between Nicola Adams of Great Britain and Bulgaria’s Stoyka Petrova takes place in Crystal Hall 2 in the afternoon session. Adams beat the Bulgarian in the quarter-finals at the London 2012 Olympic Games, but Petrova avenged the defeat at the same stage of last year`s European championship in Bucharest. Overall, Adams holds an 8-1 career advantage over Petrova.

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