TANGIER, Morocco — The wind off the Strait of Gibraltar had something to say all week in Tangier. Dania Vizzi listened, adjusted and left Morocco with a silver medal.
The USA Shooting skeet competitor earned silver in the women’s skeet final at the 2026 ISSF World Cup Shotgun on Saturday, March 28, falling just one target short of gold medalist Bethany Norton of Great Britain, 28-27.
Vizzi’s silver was the only medal earned by a USA Shooting athlete at the ISSF season-opening competition, held March 25 through April 3.
“It was a tough final,” Vizzi said in an ISSF interview after the match. “Qualification was tough here, too, so even making the final was a tough feat. There were really windy conditions all week as you can see by the scores, but I’m glad to be out with a medal.”
Vizzi, a Paris 2024 Olympian and Winchester- and Perazzi-sponsored shooter, entered the final as the seventh-ranked qualifier after posting 116 out of 125 targets. Her qualification was a study in adaptation: she dropped two birds in each of the first three rounds, fired a clean fourth round, then lost three in the fifth as the wind continued to shift.
The final featured eight athletes and used the ISSF’s progressive elimination format, which narrows the field through 12-shot and 4-shot series. After the opening eight targets, Vizzi sat in third with seven hits, behind Norton and France’s Lucie Anastassiou. But by the 20-target mark, she had climbed to second with 15 hits, just one behind Norton.
From there, Vizzi survived each elimination round, outlasting six other finalists until it came down to two, her and Norton. On her final target, Vizzi missed, finishing with 27 out of 36. Norton, competing in her first-ever ISSF World Cup final, held her nerve to close with 28, setting a new Junior World Record in the process.
Anastassiou took the bronze, her sixth career ISSF World Cup bronze medal.
The ISSF noted that Vizzi “delivered a strong and consistent performance throughout the final, staying in contention until the very last shots,” adding that she recently won gold in women’s skeet at Buenos Aires 2025 and has claimed numerous other medals across ISSF competition.
The 2026 ISSF World Cup Tangier marks an important early step on the road to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, where USA Shooting athletes will compete on home soil against the world’s best. For Vizzi, who already has Olympic experience and a career’s worth of World Cup hardware, the runway to LA just got a little shorter—and a little more interesting.
See the full results of the competition at the ISSF website.
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