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Zhang Shan , Charlotte Dujardin and Petra Zublasing are three women who beat men in major international competitions. The first in 1992 at the Olympics in Barcelona in clay pigeon shooting, the second at the London Olympics in dressage (and she  is the latest in a long line of winners, as men the victory missing since 1988) and the third, Italian, has just set the world record in the rifle. In skeet shooting, because this does not happen anymore, the next Olympics men and women competed separately. Niccolo Campriani (gold and silver in London in the carabine) and boyfriend of Petra summarizes the quality of the athletes: “At the Olympics if you want to know who is the fastest you have to see the men’s 100 meters, if you want to know who is the strongest you have to see male boxing. But if you want to see who is the strongest of the head, you have to go to the shooting final. And watch the girls. ” Many Italian women are among those athletes who have achieved more successes: the fencing dream team, women’s tennis, windsurfer Alessandra Sensini , canoeing and swimming with Josefa Idem and Federica Pellegrini (among others), who have won a number of titles that no colleague male has ever gotten. Unfortunately, there are few girls who are involved in sports than boys, we should reverse the trend whereby the peak of participation is at 11 years and then a steady decline. There are no sports policies to encourage the girl participation in sports and to reduce the phenomenon of talent dispersion. As in many other fields dominates ” do it by yourself”.