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Conquest Classic

Elegance is an attitude

Simon Baker

s we come to the end of what has been one of our longest and most challenging competition

years, it is time to reflect and look towards the future. We experienced some fantastic moments during 2013, as well as some very sad moments, too.

Two of these tragic instances come to mind. Firstly, the pass-ing of Coach Shin from Korea, some weeks after he was transported in an ambulance from the field of play at the World Championships. On behalf of World Archery, I once more offer our sincere condolences to his family. Coach Shin’s memory lives on through the success of the Korean compound team and the recurve archers he trained.

The other sad moment was the news that Gaël Prévost would withdraw from archery at the age of 19 for reasons that are hard to understand. Both Shin and Prévost were in Paris for what was without any doubt the best archery event of the year, the World Cup Final. Gaël, shooting for France, came so close to upsetting the Olympic Champion in front of the passionate Paris crowd. Eurosport reported that the event had close to 4 million unique viewers on their channel.

This leads me to think of last season’s great moments. Me-dellin and Wroclaw both successfully organised World Cup stages, and Antalya and Shanghai hosted impressive finals. The four worlds in Belek, Sassari, Wuxi and Bang-kok all crowned outstanding new world champions.

And, of course, IOC President Thomas BACH–who was elected at the 2013 International Olympic Committee session in Buenos Aires–visited the event in Belek. We had the honour of being the first World Championships Mr BACH saw in his new role.

With 2013 coming to an end, it is time to take a look at what lies ahead in 2014. Nimes will host its second World Indoor Championships this March. Their first champion-ships is still remembered as one of the best indoor events ever held, and while it will be a challenge for the organis-ers to do better they have promised that they will!

Next year’s World Cup Final will be in Lausanne, also for a second time–but at another venue and closer to Lake Geneva. World Archery hopes that the event might coincide with the cornerstone being laid at the new World Archery Centre that will be built in Lausanne.

Nanjing will host the second Youth Olympic Games, showcasing the future generation of Olympians. We al-ready saw at Wuxi this year what these youngsters are capable of, and it will be thrilling to see more.

In the hope of meeting you somewhere next year, I wish you all happy holidays and a remarkable 2014.

A busy year over, and ready for new challenges in 2014

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Prof Dr Ugur ERDENERWorld Archery President

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Editorial by Prof Dr Uğur ERDENER 1World Cup Final in Paris 4World Archery Congress 2013 12World Championships in Belek Antalya 18Interview with new IOC President Dr Thomas BACH 27The interview: OH Jin Hyek 31World 3D Championships in Sassari 36Medical dossier: Anxiety drug 43World Youth Championships in Wuxi 47Development: Dedicated people in Africa 62

Contents

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Asian Championships in Taipei 65World Para Championships in Bangkok 71The Explorer in Bhutan 792013/14 Indoor World Cup 84World Rankings: Outdoor and Para-archery 93Calendar 99Member Associations 100Sponsors & Partners 101Thanks 104

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World Cup Final: Paris was magic

By Marcos Lorenzo

aris has always been one of the most admired cities in the world thanks to its monuments,

parks, palaces, avenues and history. For one week-end, archery was exclusive partner to The Eiffel Tow-er, one of famous metropole’s most visited locations.

Millions of people around the world saw the im-ages shown on television and the photos immortal-ised in the hundreds of websites, magazines and newspapers that covered the competition. Many experienced the special atmosphere in the glam-orous Trocadero, set up for archery’s premier an-nual event. For all those that watched, worked or

competed, the 2013 World Cup Final will not be forgotten anytime soon.

For French superstars Pascale LEBECQUE and Pierre-Julien DELOCHE, the weekend was not just unforgettable, it turned into something quite unique. They won compound mixed team gold as 324 me-tres of Eiffel’s iron lattice obelisk towered above, ra-diating a history that the pair probably learnt when they could barely walk! Empowered by the magic of the venue and the shouts of the home crowd, LEBECQUE and DELOCHE beat world number ones Marcella TONIOLI and Sergio PAGNI.

Gaël PREVOST might have experienced the same, if his last arrow in a quarter-final shoot-off with dominant Korean OH Jin Hyek had reached the 9, not fallen into the 8. Buoyed by the spectators’ cheers, the atmosphere during that match was elec-tric. For many reasons it will be remembered as the best encounter of 2013.

The young French archer had no time to rest, though. PREVOST and Cyrielle COTRY headed straight out into the arena to shoot for mixed team gold against OH and his partner YUN Ok Hee. The Koreans won gold, and PREVOST lost a second match in a row to OH.Individual compound – Saturday 21 SeptemberBefore her June triumph with the Colombian team in Antalya, her name was not really known outside of

Is there a better setting for archery? Nothing is impossible, but it will be hard to top the backdrop to September 2013’s World Cup Final: the French capital’s most iconic construction.

Albina LOGINOVA (RUS)

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South America, and USQUIANO’s spot in Paris was mostly thanks to an individual victory at home in Medellin. It was not until US-QUIANO beat her teammate and another archer that burst onto the scene in 2013, Sara LOPEZ, in a dramatic Paris quarter-final shoot-off that she became a favourite for gold.

USQUIANO faced the most successful compound women’s

archer of the last five years–and still world champion at the time–Albina LOGINOVA in the semi-finals. LOGINOVA had beaten home favourite Pascale LEBECQUE just a few hours before, but the deco-rated Russian would not claim her second World Cup Final title in Paris. The athlete from Medellin advanced to the gold medal match, while LOGINOVA beat new Korean sensation SEOK Ji Hyun

Familiarization SessionAida ROMAN (MEX) - Inna STEPANOVA (RUS)

Compound Women QuartefinalsErika JONES (USA) vs Sophie DODEMONT (FRA)

Sara LOPEZ (COL) Sophie DODEMONT (FRA)

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to bronze.World Games Champion Erika JONES beat French archer So-

phie DODEMONT in the quarter-finals and SEOK in the semis. But USQUIANO would not suffer the same fate in the final. The ex-traordinary Colombian won the title by a point, her second victory over the American archer in three head-to-head matches in 2013. Duels between the two could become a classic of the international circuit in the coming years.

There was a new compound men’s champion in Paris as well. At his third World Cup Final, Martin DAMSBO started the day as USQUIANO, with a national derby against his gold-medal-winning Antalya World Cup teammate Patrick LAURSEN. He beat LAURSEN, then beat Dominique GENET from France in the semi-finals. No easy feat, as GENET had the full backing of his home crowd after a quarter-final win over the USA’s Reo WILDE, who won the first World Cup Final in 2006.

DAMSBO met another US archer in the final. Braden GEL-LENTHIEN beat MIN Lihong and Sergio PAGNI to set up his third meeting of the year with the Dane. It would be a series decider: GELLENTHIEN had won bronze over DAMSBO in Shanghai, but DAMSBO beat the American in the Antalya individual bronze medal final. The Paris match was closer than either of those. Af-ter a one-arrow shoot-off, Martin DAMSBO climbed to the top of the podium.

Already a two-time winner of the World Cup Final, Sergio PAG-NI recovered well from losses to GELLENTHIEN in the individual category and France in the mixed team. The experienced Italian archer beat Dominique GENET to bronze, his second in the history of the event. It did not win PAGNI a prize, but taking revenge for the Wroclaw World Cup stage gold medal match loss by beating Pierre-Julien DELOCHE in the quarter-finals must have been sat-isfying as well!

Individual recurve – Sunday 22 SeptemberYet again, Korean archers demonstrated that they are still the country to beat when it comes to international recurve competition.

OH Jin Hyek, the current recurve men’s Olympic champion and winner of two World Cup stages in 2013, arrived in Paris as the favourite. His dominant season on the circuit could have ended early if Gaël PREVOST’s last arrow in their quarter-final had landed closer to the middle. But it didn’t, and OH managed to overcome his French opponent and a crowd 200% behind Prevost to claim a semi-final berth in a superb match.

Double World Cup Final champion Brady ELLISON, who had dis-patched ZHANG Jianping in the quarter-finals, awaited OH. In the pair’s only other meeting at the 2011 Antalya World Cup stage, EL-LISON took a clear victory. This contest was much closer. OH shot two perfect sets to steal the win, destroying ELLISON’s hopes as he

Gaël PREVOST (FRA) Reo WILDE (USA)

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valiantly fought for a shot at a third World Cup Final gold.The Olympic bronze medallist DAI Xiaoxiang was his opponent

in the final. DAI had beaten Mauro NESPOLI and young LEE Se-ungyun, and had only just qualified for Paris after the results of the season’s last stage–which he did not attend–fell in his favour. The two Asian archers had met twice before and OH had won both, including the Olympic semi-final at London 2012. It took five sets, but the story was no different in Paris. The recurve men’s 2013 World Cup Champion was OH.

Redemption for ELLISON came in the form of bronze, after he beat LEE in a shoot-off. The kid from Arizona is the proud owner for four World Cup Finals medals: golds from 2010 and 2011, silver in 2012 and now bronze in 2013.

Khairul Anuar MOHAMAD lost to LEE in a decisive fifth set in their quarter-final, but he did not head home without a souvenir. It turned 22 on the day of competition, and more than 2,000 people sang him a memorable ‘happy birthday’!

If OH Jin Hyek proved he was worthy to lead the men’s world rankings, his Korean teammate, mixed team partner and the recurve women’s world number one YUN Ok Hee did exactly the same.

After three years’ absence from the international scene, 2010 World Cup Final Champion YUN won two World Cup stages in 2013. And her first opponent in Paris did not last very long: French archer Cyrielle COTRY lost in straight sets.

YUN’s semi-final opponent was Chinese newcomer CUI Yuany-uan, who beat Inna STEPANOVA in their quarter-final tilt. CUI man-aged to tie three sets, but surrendered the last and the match. YUN

would fight Deepika KUMARI to add a second title to the one she won in Edinburgh.

For young Indian archer KUMARI, a fixture at the World Cup Final since 2010, it was a chance to add to the two silver medals she claimed at the event over the past two years. On the way to the final she had become a nightmare for Mexico, beating the na-tion’s Olympic silver medallist Aída ROMAN before tossing aside Alejandra VALENCIA in a shoot-off!

After a good start, KUMARI struggled with time in the third set and could not shoot her last arrow. She forfeited the chance at a lead, and YUN capitalised: victory in five sets for the expe-rienced Korean, and a third silver for KUMARI. CUI took bronze over VALENCIA.

Alejandra USQUIANO (COL) OH Jin Hyek (KOR)

SHANG Jianping (CHN) Brady ELLISON (USA)

YUN Ok Hee (KOR)

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With the last medals awarded, the 2013 World Cup season drew to an abrupt and memorable end. Soon the arena was re-moved, and Paris started to recover from the arrows shot over the famous Trocadero fountains!

Compound Mixed Team Podiumfrom Left: ITALY: Marcella TONIOLI & Sergio PAGNIFRANCE: Pascale LEBECQUE & Pierre-Julien DELOCHE Deepika KUMARI (IND)

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Standings

Individual compound women Individual compound men

Alejandra USQUIANO (COL) Martin DAMSBO (DEN)

Erika JONES (USA) Braden GELLENTHIEN (USA)

Albina LOGINOVA (RUS) Sergio PAGNI (ITA)

4 SEOK Ji Hyun (KOR) 4 Dominique GENET (FRA)

5 Sara LOPEZ (COL) 5 MIN Lihong (KOR)

6 Kristina BERGER (GER) 6 Pierre-Julien DELOCHE (FRA)

7 Pascale LEBECQUE (FRA) 7 Reo WILDE (USA)

8 Sophie DODEMONT (FRA) 8 Patrick LAURSEN (DEN)

Braden GELLENTHIEN (USA)Sophie DODEMONT (FRA)

Guy DRUT, IOC Member and Olympic ChampionProf. Dr. Ugur ERDENER WA President and IOC Member

Erika JONES (USA), Alejandra USQUIANO (COL), Albina LOGINOVA (RUS)

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Individual recurve women Individual recurve men

YUN Ok Hee (KOR) OH Jin Hyek (KOR)

Deepika KUMARI (IND) DAI Xiaoxiang (CHN)

CUI Yuanyuan (CHN) Brady ELLISON (USA)

4 Alejandra VALENCIA (MEX) 4 LEE Seungyun (KOR)

5 Inna STEPANOVA (RUS) 5 Gaël PREVOST (FRA)

6 JOO Hyun Jung (KOR) 6 Khairul Anuar MOHAMAD (MAS)

7 Aída ROMAN (MEX) 7 ZHANG Jianping (CHN)

8 Cyrielle COTRY (FRA) 8 Mauro NESPOLI (ITA)

Compound mixed teams Recurve mixed teams

FRANCEPascale LEBECQUEPierre-Julien DELOCHE

KOREAYUN Ok HeeOH Jin Hyek

ITALYMarcella TONIOLISergio PAGNI

FRANCECyrielle COTRYGaël PREVOST

Compound Men PodiumFrom Left: Braden GELLENTHIEN (USA) - 2nd place, Martin DAMSBO (DEN) - 1st place, Sergio PAGNI (ITA) - 3rd place

Recurve Mixed Team PodiumFrom Left: FRANCE: Cyrielle COTRY & Gaël PrevostKOREA: YUN Ok Hee & OH Jin Hyek

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50th World Archery Congress: Together we did, together we can, and together we will

By Tom Dielen World Archery Secretary General

President’s reportWorld Archery President Prof Dr Uğur ERDENER opened the 2013 Congress by welcoming his IOC colleagues in attendance and delivering a report emphasising World Archery’s recent achievements in developing the sport for spectators.

“At our prestigious venue of Lord’s Cricket Ground, the London Games were a great success for World Archery,” Prof Dr ERDENER began. “More than thirty of our matches ended with a shoot-off, because of our new competition system.

“I am proud that so many well-known broadcast personnel have said how much archery has changed to the benefit of television. The spectators in London

loved archery at Lord’s, and we achieved 92% in the Spectator Satisfaction Survey arranged by the IOC: a very high result!

“I have received excellent comments from NBC Olym-pics and CBC Sports, and archery was used by OBS as an example of a successfully evolving sport. Many of my colleagues from the IOC visited us at Lord’s, and were very positive about our new competition system.”

The President explained that these huge improve-ments came as a direct result of the dynamic World Archery Plan. This success belongs to all Member Associations, because many contributed to the strat-egy and supported World Archery in its projects. On behalf of all of World Archery, the President thanked the Member Associations.

As a result of the feedback from London, IOC ques-tionnaires and other objective evaluations, archery moved into a higher IOC Olympic Revenue distribution category following the Games. Archery cemented its strong position further when it was confirmed as one of the Olympic Programme’s 25 core sports at the IOC Session in Buenos Aires.

The President explained that archery’s success was made possible thanks to:

A great family of skilled and clean, elite athletes from all five continents.

A competition format and set of rules that the gen-eral public, not just the archery family, can under-stand–and can be easily implemented by judges and officials.

The World Archery Congress in Antalya this year will not only be remembered as the 50th, but because of certain major decisions that are sure to make our sport even better. It is also the Congress that changed the focus of our World Archery Plan, from an international perspective to a national perspective.

Prof. Dr. Ugur ERDENER - WA President and IOC Member

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A commitment from Member Associations and officials to de-liver quality events and development programmes.

A highly-motivated staff, ready to be the first to take new di-rections, as evidenced by World Archery’s event production, broadcasting, and internet and social media activities.

A beneficial cooperation with all the stakeholders in the Olympic movement, such as the IOC, ASOIF, ANOC, Olympic Solidarity, WADA, SportAccord and many others.

The primary goal of the World Archery Plan was for archery to be-come an important Olympic sport. The President reported to Con-gress that this goal, which World Archery had set for itself, has been achieved.

Secretary General’s reportWorld Archery Secretary General Mr Tom DIELEN reported sig-nificant growth in the membership of national federations. France passed the 70,000 mark, a 25% increase since 2008, with 72,500 archers in total–and Archery GB were over 40,000 members, a 27% increase since 2008. In the USA, of the 18.9 million adults who used a bow and arrow in the previous year, 38% were women and the majority practised target archery, according to a study by the Archery Trade Association.

It was made clear to Member Associations that they are re-quired to organise national championships every year for both men and women, and inform World Archery of the event, under IOC Revenue distribution criteria.

The Secretary General highlighted Archery TV, as it is now the second most followed international sports federation channel on YouTube. World Archery’s channel saw an increase from 8,000 subscribers in 2011 to 27,000 in 2013, and an increase of 68% in usage over the last year based on Google statistics.

At the time of Congress, World Archery’s Facebook site had hit 67,000 fans, growth of 857% since the last Congress–and con-tinues to close in on the 100,000 target. An average of 10,000 people per day visited the World Archery website in 2013.

Mr DIELEN brought to attention the 3,300 tickets sold for the compound event at the World Games in Cali, as it was the biggest audience ever assembled for this discipline.

Major decisions at CongressCongress made a number of key changes to parts of World Ar-chery’s constitution and rules, to come into effect on 1 April 2014. The alterations are summarised here but can be found in detail in the minutes of the 2013 Congress on the World Archery website.

Recurve archers will shoot a 72-arrow 70-metre round for qualification at future world championships, rather than the four-distance FITA. Compound archers have used the 72-arrow 50-me-tre round since the 2009 Congress, and the recurve 70-metre round has been used in Olympic ranking since 1996. This was the third attempt to make the change for the world championships, and many of the members that resisted in the past were convinced that the time was now right.

The constitution was changed to allow World Archery to act quicker if the ability of one of its Member Associations to govern itself independently was under threat. Along with the Congress’ resounding support for those national archery federations cur-rently facing challenges–India, Ecuador, Pakistan and Egypt–it was a clear signal of World Archery’s support of the autonomy of sport.

Following the success of set play in recurve individual com-petition, recurve team matches will use the system at all World Archery competitions, including the Olympics. The change ap-plies to the recurve division only, to help differentiate between recurve and compound competition as set out in the World Ar-chery Plan.

To further help distinguish between the two bow styles, indoor compound events will run to similar rules as are used outdoors. Indoor compound matches will be decided on straight score, with the logic used for outdoor rules transferred.

The recurve standing and W2 categories in para-archery will be combined into an open recurve classification for future events like the Paralympics and world championships, and more severely disabled athletes will compete in a new W1 open event. This will result in the addition of three mixed team events at the Paralympic Games. All regular championships will continue to hold recurve and compound team events as well.

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World Archery PlanThe previous World Archery Plan came to an end in 2012, so Con-gress established a new vision for archery. The key difference in the new strategy is its focus on Member Associations achieving the same vision nationally that the earlier scheme delivered on an international level.

The new World Archery Plan aims to have archery recognised as an important Olympic sport in every nation. This shift in focus will not be easy, and World Archery intends to work with Member Associations in different ways to help them reach this goal.

Implementation of the new plan was underway when Member Associations split into groups at Congress to participate in four workshops on subjects that could improve recognition of archery in their own countries.

Member Associations discussed ways to establish or improve their strategic plans in order to achieve the global vision. Lots of information was exchanged, delegates took away valuable les-sons and federations were able to share their experiences with one another.

Events Director Juan Carlos HOLGADO, Dutch-based company Match and MSL–a long-time results systems partner–demon-strated the new event toolbox. A package of apparatus including broadcast, scoring and timing equipment that will improve event presentation at local, national and international competitions. It is customisable, depending on the size of the event and available

budget, and the toolbox can be bought or rented. And it was used to broadcast the whole Congress live on YouTube!

Unravelling some of the stigma around social media, World Ar-chery’s communications team–coordinated by Teresa JOHNSON–delivered a simple guide to setting up a Facebook page and Twitter account, and using it effectively as a national federation.

Possible routes to funding for development projects were outlined by the World Archery Education and Development Director, with practical advice taken from examples in the sport.

As a results of these four seminars, plans will be made to as-sist Members Associations further through additional workshops, a management seminar, online tools and direct consultation with a certain number of federations.

ElectionsAs expected, Prof Dr Uğur ERDENER was re-elected for a third term as President of World Archery. Out of the 95 votes cast, 93 were in favour of the incumbent President: a clear message of confidence from Congress.

Mrs María Emma GAVIRIA from Colombia was the first woman since 2005 to be elected as a Vice President. She will also be a member of the Executive Committee in 2014. The Executive Board welcomed new members Mr Greg EASTON, one of the two Techni-cal Delegates for the Rio Olympic Games, and Mr Aladin GABR. Mr GABR is already the President of World Archery Africa and the

From Left: Mrs. Eva THESEN, Mr. Jörg BROKAMP, Mrs. Victoriya KOVAL

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From Left: Mr. Philippe BOUCLET - WA Vice President, Mr. Tom DIELEN - WA Secretary General, Prof. Dr. Ugur ERDENER - WA President and IOC Member, Mr. Mario SCARZELLA - WA First Vice President

Egyptian Archery Federation, and the Secretary General of the Egyptian NOC–and is now Africa’s first ever World Archery Execu-tive Board member.

Following the rest of the elections, women gained better repre-sentation across the organisation. Former Olympic and world med-allist LEE Eun-Kyung joined the Target Committee, Hilda GIBSON the Finance & Audit Board and Susanne Womersley the Techni-cal Committee. Carole Hicks became the new chair of the Para-Archery Committee.

The Executive Board now comprises:President: Prof Dr Uğur ERDENER Term:2017Secretary General: Mr Tom DIELENFirst Vice President: Mr Mario SCARZELLA Term:2015Vice President: Mr Sanguan KOSAVINTA Term:2017Vice President: Mr Philippe BOUCLET Term:2015Vice President: Mrs María Emma GAVIRIA Term:2017Member: Mr Vladimir ESHEEV Term:2017Member: Mr GAO Zhidan Term:2015Member: Mr Kotaro HATA Term:2015Member: Mr Jörg BROKAMP Term:2015Member: Mrs Eva THESEN Term:2015Member: Mr Greg EASTON Term:2017Member: Dr Eng. GABR Aladin Term:2017Member: Ms Viktoriya KOVAL Term:2015(Chairwoman of Athletes’ Committee)Ex Officio Member: Mr Mark MILLER Term:2015(Chairman of Constitution & Rules Committee)

AwardsAs is tradition, the World Archery Congress closed with the handing out of awards and plaquettes. This began with the Gender Equity Awards, given since the 2007 Congress to women for their out-standing contribution to the sport.

Mrs María Emma GAVIRIA from Colombia, Vice-President of World Archery Americas and the Colombian Archery Federation, received the “Women in Archery Family” award for her re-markable services to the administrative structures of archery.

The “Member Associations and Female Athletes” trophies, awarded to the three Member Association with the highest number of female athletes participating at World Cup stages in the two years prior to each Congress, were awarded to the USA (56), Mexico (52) and Italy (42).

The Executive Board recommended World Archery Bronze Pla-quettes be awarded to the following individuals in recognition of their hard work and dedication to archery:

Ms Pauline BETTERIDGE, Head of Classification for Archery at IPC and World Archery for 12 years, and a classifier for 14. She introduced the concept of classification in archery and trained all of the existing classifiers. Her role in the introduction of para-archery cannot be understated.

Ms Rita VAN DRIEL, retiring chair of the Para-Archery Com-mittee who was key to its integration into World Archery. As a member of the ad-hoc committee from 2007-09 and chair of the Para-Archery Committee until 2013, she steered the final amalgamation of para-archery. Rita was also elected an IPC

Plaquattes regarding successful Archery World Plan were presented by our Champions.

Prof. Dr. Ugur ERDENER - WA President and IOC MemberMr. Mario SCARZELLA - WA First Vice President Mr. Tom DIELEN - WA Secretary General

Prof. Dr. Ugur ERDENER - WA President and IOC MemberMr. Paul PAULSEN - WA Honorary First Vice President

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governing Board Member in 2009, and before taking the role of Secretary General of the Dutch Paralympic Committee, she was COO of the Dutch Federation from 2004-08 and in charge of grassroots development in the Netherlands from 2002-04.

Ms GUO Bei, former International Judge at many events including the Olympics, former athlete, current Vice Chairman of Shanghai Sports administration and a key member of the Shanghai World Cup Organising Committee. Also a Member of the Asian Archery Federation Council and Development Committee.

Mr Greg EASTON, Organiser of the Ogden World Cup from 2009-2012 and the World Youth Championships in 2008. Un-der his leadership, the Ogden World Cup was ranked best by athletes for three years running.

With acclamation, Congress awarded World Archery Silver Pla-quettes to these three people for their exemplary involvement in archery’s success:

Ms Eva THESEN, Technical Delegate at the London Olympic Games and many other international events. The success of the London Games is without any discussion, and her contribution was paramount.

Mr Sergio FONT, member of the Judges’ Committee, Chair and Judge at many international events, Secretary General of the Cuban Archery Federation and recently World Archery Americas. He has been key in the sport’s development, event management and judge education for years and deserves recognition.

Mr Chris MARSH, Competition Manager of the Olympic and Paralympic Games at London 2012. Chris was an athlete on the British and Swiss national teams, and managed the British team at the Paralympics in Athens. His role in delivering the best ever Games is unquestionable.

Three Golden Arrow Awards, recognising unprecedented achieve-ment or commitment, were confirmed by Congress following en-dorsement from the Executive Board:

Count Jacques ROGGE, Honorary President of the IOC, for his contribution to the Olympic Movement and support for archery during his mandate as IOC President.

Mr CHUNG Euisun, President of the Asian Archery Federation, for his lifelong support of the sport.

Prof Dr Uğur ERDENER, for his work as President, including the World Archery Plan and the success of archery at the Olym-pic Games.

At the conclusion of the awards, some of the London 2012 Olym-pic Champions entered the room. On behalf of World Archery, they were asked by the President to hand each delegation a special medal thanking Member Associations for their contribution to the success of our sport.

With that very-much appreciated moment, World Archery’s 50th Congress was closed. The full minutes are available on the World Archery website, and we now look forward to the 51st Con-gress in Copenhagen.

Mr. Rolf LIND - Organizing Committee for 2015 Wolrd Archery Championships in Copenhagen (DEN)

Mr. Juergen LOECHELT - Organizing Committee for 2015 World Para-Archery Championships in Donaueschingen (GER)

Mr. Tom DIELEN - WA Secretary General Ms. Carole HICKS - Chairperson of Para Archery Committee

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Young athletes and improving teams medal at World Championships in Turkey

By Vanahé Antille

At the end of a long and exciting outdoor season that introduced a new wave of top faces to the international podium, 449 athletes headed to Belek, in Turkey’s Antalya province. From 29 September to 6 October, 248 men and 193 women from 69 different nations battled for titles at the 2013 World Archery Championships. Twelve Members of the International Olympic Committee visited the event, including new IOC President Mr Thomas BACH.

Recurve archery found two young new stars, and if Korea is still the leading nation then other coun-tries are challenging their supremacy more and more. Although Korea may have found the perfect athlete to pin their future hopes on in 18-year-old newcomer LEE Seungyun.

After winning his first World Cup stage in Au-gust during his first international senior season, LEE

he week belonged to young athletes and up-and-coming teams, who coped well with the ex-

treme conditions during the elimination rounds. Only archers who survived the strong and unpredictable winds made it deep into the competition. Neverthe-less, 10 new world champions were crowned, in a spectacular venue as per archery tradition: Belek’s beautiful beach.

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qualified in second place in Belek. He braved the wind, and tough opponents including 2008 Olympic Champion Viktor RUBAN (UKR) and World Cup Final runner-up DAI Xiaoxiang (CHN) to make the men’s recurve final.

Next to the young Korean on the line was his experienced team-mate, OH Jin Hyek. The defending Olympic Champion was looking to claim his first world crown, the only major individual title missing from his résumé.

The teenage star won 7-3. Another world championships last four for 32-year-old OH, who came fourth in 2009 and third in 2011, though the top spot eluded him yet again. LEE was the most consistent recurve man throughout the event, scoring a competi-tion-high 9.267 average per arrow.

Crispin DUENAS won his first world medal at 27 years old. After defeating a string of top opponents in the elimination rounds–first Olympic silver medallist Takaharu FURUKAWA (JPN), then Marki-yan IVASHKO (UKR) and World Field Champion Jean-Charles VAL-LADONT (FRA)–the Canadian Olympian found himself in a bronze medal match against China’s DAI Xiaoxiang. DUENAS beat the reigning Olympic bronze medallist in straight sets, clinching the win by shooting a 10 with his last arrow.

Danish sensation Maja JAGER concluded her incredible World Championships with the individual recurve women’s gold medal. The 21-year-old Olympian upset two of the top-ranked archers in the world, Koreans YUN Ok Hee and Olympic Champion KI Bo Bae, on her way to the final.

Shooting against Olympic team silver medallist XU Jing, JAGER took an early lead. Her Chinese opponent recovered, and the pair were tied after the regulation five sets: a one-arrow shoot-off would

decide the title winner. Both archers shot a 10-9 linecutter… but JAGER’s was closer, by a millimetre. XU Jing, already decorated with international team and mixed team medals, climbed a world championships podium for the first time to collect silver.

YUN Ok Hee from Korea, who was double-Olympic medallist in 2008 but absent from the international scene since 2010, won the bronze medal. It was a fitting end to her successful comeback season, which included victories at two World Cup stages and the Final. She needed just three sets to defeat Germany’s Karina WIN-TER, and deprive the former world indoor winner of a first outdoor championships medal.

As the wind continue to blow, the United States men won their country its first recurve team world title in thirty years. After a dis-appointing season, Brady ELLISON led the trio to beat Australia and the Ukraine in the first two rounds, then third-ranked France. The States archers, who came third at the last World Cup stage, faced the Netherlands for gold.

The young European Champions had edged out the top-ranked, six-time defending World Champions from Korea in the major upset of the elimination rounds. And in the two previous clashes between the Dutch and States teams, it was the Netherlands that walked away winners both times.

Rick VAN DER VEN, Sjef VAN DEN BERG and Rick VAN DEN OEV-ER were stronger over the first half of the final, but the American team rallied and recovered to take the match 214-211. ELLISON and Jake KAMINSKI added to the Olympic team silver they won in London, after Joe FANCHIN shot the winning arrow.

An interesting bit of trivia on the runner-up Netherlands team: the last time the country climbed a world podium was back in

Gold Final Match: From Netherlands Netherlands: Rick VAN DER VEN and Sjef VAN DEN BERG

Recurve Men Team Gold Medal Match: Netherlands vs USA: Jake KAMINSKY - Brady ELLISON - Joe FANCHIN

Compound Men 1/16: Michael MATZENR (AUT) vs Reo WILDE (USA)Carina CHRISTIANSEN (DEN)

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2007, when they won silver with a team including none other than current national coach Ron VAN DER HOFF!

France beat Korea for the first time in history for bronze. Thomas FAUCHERON and Gaël PREVOST watched as Jean-Charles VALLA-DONT delivered a winning 10 to take sweet revenge for the previous two world championships’ gold medal matches, both of which Korea won over France. LEE Seungyun, IM Dong Hyun and OH Jin Hyek headed home from Belek empty handed, marking the first time in over 20 years the Korean recurve men failed to win a team medal.

Thankfully, their female teammates would defend their coun-try’s honour. “We will win the gold,” announced KI Bo Bae at the start of the competition–and that is exactly what the Korean re-curve women did when the world number ones recovered the title they lost to Italy in 2011.

The top-qualifying team of Olympic gold medallists KI and YUN Ok Hee, and newcomer CHANG Hye Jin, dispatched Poland in the first round, beat Olympic silver medallists China in a shoot-off and won their semi-final against Mexico, who missed in the last end. In the final they faced Belarus, who had made a surprising run through third-seeded Germany, Great Britain and Denmark in the elimination rounds.

Although the Asian archers did not shoot to their full potential, with only four 10s, it was enough to outscore their opponents by six points. A fifth straight victory for Korea in five matches against the nation. But Hanna MARUSAVA, Ekaterina TIMOFEYEVA and Alena TOLKACH’s silver was independent Belarus’ first ever world championships medal.

Maja JAGER won her second medal in Belek with teammates Carina CHRISTIANSEN and Anne Marie LAURSEN when the Danish team repeated the third place they won at the Wroclaw World Cup

stage in August. After initially trailing Mexico’s Olympic medallists Mariana AVITA and Aída ROMAN, shooting with Alejandra VALEN-CIA, they recovered to win Denmark’s first world championships medal in this category.

Notably absent from the podium were India, champion at the Medellin and Wroclaw World Cup stages and who had been ex-pected to challenge Korea for the title, Shanghai World Cup winner Chinese Taipei and defending title holders Italy.

KI Bo Bae and OH Jin Hyek, both Olympic Champions from Ko-rea, shot their way to the recurve mixed team final with victories

over Colombia, Great Britain and Chinese Taipei. They were fantas-tic in the gold medal match, while their American opponents–Brady ELLISON and Khatuna LORIG–put too many arrows out of the gold ring. Final score: 148-139. KI retained the mixed team world title she obtained in 2011 with IM Dong Hyun. KUO Cheng-Wei and TAN Ya-Ting, who won a World Cup title together in 2012, defeated de-fending silver medallist Mexico by one point for the bronze medal.

American and European archers continued their strong rivalry in the compound events, in a similar tale to rest of the 2013 season. With competitors having to deal with the apocalyptic wind as well as their opponents, the battle for supremacy swung squarely in Europe’s favour. The continent won four out of five titles, with Co-lombia winning the fifth for Latin America’s first ever world cham-pionships gold. Traditionally dominant in compound competition, the United States’ performance was disappointing, since they left Belek with no first place finishes for the first time since 2001.

Mike SCHLOESSER was the highest-scoring archer in every round of the windy eliminations, and ploughed his way into the compound men’s final. The Dutch archer delivered eleven 10s and just four 9s to outscore Pierre-Julien DELOCHE 146-141.

At only 19 years old, SCHLOESSER’s world title was the first individual podium of his career, even though he had shot in three previous world youth championships and at the senior worlds in 2011. The silver that went to 31-year-old French archer DELOCHE was a fitting finish to his most successful senior season yet, which featured an individual World Cup stage win in Wroclaw, team win in Medellin and a World Games silver medal over the summer.

Great Britain’s Women Compound Team, from left: Rikki BINGHAM - Danielle BROWN - Andrea GALES

HO Jin Hyek (KOR)

Karina WINTER (GER)

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The bronze medal went to Alexander DAMBAEV, who has shot internationally since 2010, won his first individual World Cup med-al in Wroclaw and is establishing himself as one of the world’s top archers at 24 years old. He edged out top qualifier and defending silver medallist Jesse BROADWATER (USA), then dominated world number two Braden GELLENTHIEN (USA) in the quarter-finals, be-fore beating Roberval DOS SANTOS for the podium spot.

Brazilian archer DOS SANTOS, who qualified in just 63rd place, eliminated defending world champion Christopher PERKINS from Canada in the earlier rounds. With SCHLOESSER, DELOCHE and DOS SANTOS climbing the podium, this event was one of the rare times that no USA archer claimed a compound men’s medal.

Arriving in Belek looking to win her third world championship in a row, Albina LOGINOVA (RUS) qualified first in the compound women’s competition. But she, and many of the other favourites, faltered in the wind. LOGINOVA went out in the eliminations, as did world number one Erika JONES (USA), Colombian stars Sara LO-PEZ and Alejandra USQUIANO, defending silver medallist Pascale LEBECQUE (FRA) and World Cup finalist SEOK JI Hyun from Korea.

Former German pistol champion Kristina BERGER, who picked up a bow in 2009, confirmed the promise she had shown on the international scene since her first appearance in 2012. The 25-year-old knocked out Marcella TONIOLI (ITA) in the quarter-finals, 16-year-old Maja ORLIC (who beat LOGINOVA) in the semis and faced the experienced Ivana BUDEN in the final. An X to start set the tone. The German archer led from beginning to end, finish-ing the match with a decisive string of 10s on her way to the World

Championship title. BUDEN–coached by her father–won silver, her first medal in five of these events.

Another relatively new archer to the sport won bronze. Gerda ROUX was competing in only her second major event aged 39, after starting to take archery seriously last June thanks to her hus-band, international compound athlete Patrick ROUX. She beat Maja ORLIC by a four-point margin to take bronze and win South Af-rica its second ever world championships medal in the compound women’s division, after Jorina COETZEE won silver in 2009.

Denmark’s compound men began their team campaign by taking revenge for losing the final of the last world championships against

the United States. It was only the second victory for the Scandina-vians in seven meetings between the two nations since 2010.

With the momentum behind them, 2013 World Cup Final Champion Martin DAMSBO, Stephan HANSEN and Patrick LAURS-EN recorded a clear semi-final victory over France to set up a gold medal match against South Africa. HANSEN was terrific, as at 18 years old he shot nothing but 10s and propelled his team to victory, 235-230. The trio handed Denmark its first gold in the category, improving on the 2005 bronze and silver from 2009.

The 2013 silver was South Africa’s first ever world championships team medal in any category! Gabriel BADENHORST, DP BIERMAN and Patrick ROUX (the husband of individual bronze medallist Gerda) rounded off a strong season with the remarkable achievement.

Medellin World Cup stage winners France took bronze, by beat-ing a surprising Sweden–who upset the Netherlands and Russia

Recurve Mixed Team Podium, from Left: USA: Kathuna LORIG - Brady ELLISON, KOREA: KI Bo Bae OH Jin Hyek, CHINESE TAIPEI: KUO Cheng-Wei - TAN Ya-Ting

Compound Men Podium, From Left: Pierre Julien DELOCHE (FRA), Mike SCHLOESSER (NED), Alexander DAMBAEV (RUS)

Marcella TONIOLI (ITA)

Alexander DAMBAEV (RUS)

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in the elimination rounds. Sébastien BRASSEUR, Pierre-Julien DE-LOCHE and Dominique GENET led from the start, and spent most of the match pounding arrows into the 10. Their 232-225 victory signalled France’s return to the podium, after a very different team won gold in 1995.

Aura María BRAVO, world record holder Sara LOPEZ and World Cup Final winner Alejandra USQUIANO lived up to everyone’s ex-pectations, establishing themselves as compound women’s team World Champions to conclude their whirlwind 2013 season. The Colombian trio recorded a symbolic quarter-final victory over the defending champion United States, before clinching the gold med-al before the last arrow in their final against the Netherlands.

Martine COUWENBERG, at her second international event, Inge VAN CASPEL and Irina MARKOVIC winning silver put the Nether-lands back on the podium in this category after a drought of 12 years, while Colombia claimed its first ever world title.

The bronze final featured Olympic medallist Sophie DODEMONT, who came third in the recurve team event at Beijing 2008 and shot her first international compound season in 2013. Her French team faced double-Paralympic Champion Danielle BROWN and Great Britain. Pascale LEBECQUE, the 2011 individual world runner-up, delivered eight 10s - including the bronze-medal winning arrow - to put France back on the compound women’s team podium after winning the title in 2001 and 2005, and taking silver in 2003.

Defending World Champions from Torino 2011, Sergio PAGNI and Marcella TONIOLI won their second consecutive compound mixed team title. The pair credited the length of time they have shot together and enjoyment they gain from mutually supporting each other as the reasons for their success.

After a semi-final victory over the United States, the two Italians were dominant from the start against second-seeded Russia in the final. Alexander DAMBAEV and Albina LOGINOVA–both top archers individually and excellent together–lost by six points. PAGNI and TONIOLI only dropped five in total, winning 155-149 and another world crown.

The lone compound medal of these championships for the USA came courtesy of 2011 individual medallists Erika JONES and Jesse BROADWATER. Shooting together for the first time, the recovered from their defeat to the Italian pair to win bronze. Still a huge disappoint for an American squad that expected big results.

The 30 medals awarded in Belek were shared by 15 different nations. Korea was the most successful country overall with three gold medals, one silver and one bronze. Denmark was second best, taking home three medals, including two golds and its first title since 1950. It was the most successful event ever for the Scandi-navian country, which will host the next World Archery Champion-ships in 2015.

Rick VAN DER VEN (NED)Maja JAGER (DEN)

Compound Woman Team Gold Medal Match: Netherlands vs ColombiaCrispin DUENAS (CAN)

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MedallistsIndividual recurve men Individual recurve women

LEE Seungyun (KOR) Maja JAGER (DEN)

OH Jin Hyek (KOR) XU Jing (CHN)

Crispin DUENAS (CAN) YUN Ok Hee (KOR)

Individual compound men Individual compound women

Mike SCHLOESSER (NED) Kristina BERGER (GER)

Pierre-Julien DELOCHE (FRA) Ivan BUDEN (CRO)

Alexander DAMBAEV (RUS) Gerda ROUX (RSA)

Katarzyna SZALANSKA (POL), SEOK Ji Hyun (KOR), Albina LOGINOVA (RUS) Compoun Women Team South Africa: Danelle WENTZEL, Jeanine VAN KRADENBURG, Gerda ROUX

Compound Men Team Podium, From Left: SOUTH AFRICA: Gabriel BADENHORST - DP BIERMAN -Patrick ROUX, DENMARK: Martin DAMSBO - Stephan HANSEN - Patrick LAURSEN, FRANCE: Sebastien BRASSEUR - Pierre Julien DELOCHE - Dominique GENET

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Recurve men teams Recurve women teams

USA Brady ELLISONJoe FRANCHINJake KAMINSKI

KOREA CHANG Hye JinKI Bo BaeYUN Ok Hee

NETHERLANDS Sjef VAN DEN BERGRick VAN DER OEVERRick VAN DER VEN

BELARUS Hanna MARUSAVAEkaterina TIMOFEYEVAAlena TOLKACH

FRANCE Thomas FAUCHERONGaël PREVOSTJean-Charles VALLADONT

DENMARK Carina CHRISTIANSENMaja JAGERAnne Marie LAURSEN

Mr. Rolf LIND, Representing the Organizing Committee for 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, received World Archery flag from Prof. Dr. Ugur ERDENER

Jesse BROADWATER (USA)

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Compound men teams Compound women teams

DENMARK Martin DAMSBOStephan HANSENPartrick LAURSEN

COLOMBIA Aura María BRAVOSara LOPEZAlejandra USQUIANO

SOUTH AFRICA Gabriel BADENHORSTDP BIERMANPatrick ROUX

NETHERLANDS Martine COUWENBERGIrina MARKOVICInge VAN CASPEL

FRANCE Sébastien BRASSEURPierre-Julien DELOCHEDominique GENET

FRANCE Sophie DODEMONTPascale LEBECQUESandrine VANDIONNANT

Recurve mixed teams Compound mixed teams

KOREA KI Bo BaeOH Jin Hyek

ITALY Marcella TONIOLISergio PAGNI

USA Khatuna LORIGBrady ELLISON

RUSSIA Albina LOGINOVAAlexander DAMBAEV

CHINESE TAIPEI TAN Ya-TingKUO Cheng-Wei

USA Erika JONESJesse BROADWATER

Medal TableCountry Gold Silver Bronze Total

Korea 3 1 1 5

Denmark 2 1 3

Netherlands 1 2 3

USA 1 1 1 3

Colombia 1 1

Germany 1 1

Italy 1 1

France 1 3 4

South Africa 1 1 2

Russia 1 1 2

Belarus 1 1

China 1 1

Croatia 1 1

Canada 1 1

Chinese Taipei 1 1

Team Colombia

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Interview with the new IOC President Dr Thomas BACH

By Marcos Lorenzo

Dr Thomas BACH was elected the ninth President of the International Olympic Committee on 10 September at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires.

petition equipment -  recurve and compound bows – and the introduction of the mixed-team category.

As a former Olympic champion, and the first Olympic medallist to lead the IOC, do you feel particularly close to athletes and to sport?I think my experience as an athlete is definitely use-ful. My former colleague and great judoka champion Anton GEESINK once said that Olympians speak the same  language, and  I  think he was  right. Athletes should be at  the heart of all we are doing – at all levels and at all times. 

What major challenges and changes do you foresee for the Olympic Movement in the coming years?Though the Olympic Movement is in quite a healthy state, there are of course challenges. Protecting the integrity of sport against threats such as doping and the manipulation of sport events will  remain a  top priority under my Presidency and we will probably need to invest even more resources to pursue this important task.

We will also need to concentrate on the sustain-ability of the Games and look into the bidding proce-dure from the beginning of the process. For instance, we have to ask ourselves  if we are requesting too much, too early,  from potential bid cities. We have to  realise  that  we  cannot  apply  the  standards  for the organisation of the Games from one part of the world only, and must  respect  that all  potential bid cities start from different levels. 

r Thomas BACH was elected the ninth President of  the  International  Olympic  Committee  on  10 

September at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires.Having  won  gold  in  the 

men’s  foil  team  event  at the  1976  Olympic  Games in  Montreal,  he  is  the  first Olympic  medallist  to  lead the Olympic Movement.

The 59-year-old German was  the  founding  Presi-dent  of  the  German  Olym-pic  Sports  Confederation (DOSB)  in  2006,  a  position he held until shortly after his election as IOC President. 

An  IOC  Member  since 1991, Mr BACH was elected to  the  IOC Executive Board four  times  and  served  as IOC Vice-President for more than 10 years. 

Mr  BACH  recently  vis-ited  the  qualifications  and eliminations  venue  of  the Belek  Antalya  World  Cham-pionships  in Turkey,  joining World  Archery  President and  fellow  IOC  Member Prof Dr Uğur ERDENER and other World Archery officials for  a  presentation  of  the two  types  of  archery  com-

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Encouraging  young  people  to  go  out  and  practice  sport  must remain a key objective of every sport organisation. Some sport or-ganisations want  to get more  youth watching  sport, which  is  fine, but not enough. We cannot be satisfied if youth are just consuming sport; we must get them practising sport. We have to consider how to get young people off the couch and into sport and help them adopt healthy lifestyles.

Do you believe the Youth Olympic Games is the best way to attract people to sport?The Youth Olympic Games is one step - but we must do more at the  grassroots  level  and  reach  out  to  young people  using  every means possible,  including mass communication via social media and policy changes at the top levels of government. We need to ad-dress governments around the world, telling them that sport is an 

Thomas BACH greeting his colleague Meliton SANCHEZ

Juan Carlos HOLGADO explaining the Falco Eye electronic scoreboard to  Thomas BACH and his IOC colleagues

Thomas BACH discussing with Prof.Dr. Ugur ERDENER, Meliton SANCHEZ and his son.

Thomas BACH together with Prof.Dr. Ugur ERDENER, Oliver HAIDN and other members of the German Team.

World Archery Event Manager Juan Carlos explaining the type of bows to President BACH and IOC Members.

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indispensable part of education, not only a means for fun or leisure. We can never do enough in this area.

What is your perception of archery within the Olympic Games?International Federations are guardians of their sport and key play-ers  in  the Olympic Movement - without  them there would be no Olympic Games. World Archery is a very dynamic federation which has  modernised  its  sport  without  cutting  into  its  soul. You  have done a lot in regard to the competition system, the globalisation of the sport, and the introduction of new technologies, including the new laser measuring system.

This is very important. I can only congratulate World Archery for what has been done in the past years. Such measures are crucial. The world is changing faster than ever before and if sport does not adjust  and  progress  at  the  same  time,  it will  lose  attraction  and relevance.  It  is about keeping up with  the  times and anticipating future trends.

Many International Federations want more events and medals in the Olympic sports programme. Can the programme realistically be extended?With regard to sustainability and legacy, we have  to  respect  two  limitations:  the number  of  athletes  on  the  one  hand and  the number of permanent  facilities needed on  the other.  In my view,  these two  factors  are  crucial  to  the  sustain-ability and legacy of the Games, with the number of events and sports being less of an issue. Of course, we need to work hand in hand on this, as the International Federations  contribute  significantly  to the overall success of the Games. 

You have been an athlete and a National Olympic Committee (NOC) President. As International Olympic Committee President, how will you now deal with NOCs? The  Olympic  Movement  consists  of  a variety  of  key  stakeholders  and  each one has an important role to play in the 

development of sport at all  levels, serving  the athletes, educat-ing young people and contributing to the success of the Games. Close  collaboration  between  the  different  players  is  essential, and what is often overlooked is that NOCs, IFs and the IOC are closely intertwined. Your President, Prof Dr Uğur ERDENER, is a perfect example: he is an IOC Member, an NOC President and an IF President. Sometimes the perception is that we are competing for different interests, yet to my mind we are all working toward the same goal: the success of sport and the Olympic Games.

In terms of grassroots sport, can you ensure that the IOC will support projects for youth around the world?This will definitely remain a priority under my Presidency and the IOC is supporting such action at different levels.

Our Sport  for All Commission has already organised and pro-moted many projects, including the annual celebration of Olympic Day on 23 June. We must also work with partners outside the sport system and increase our cooperation with governments and non-governmental organisations such as UNESCO, to get sport better integrated in national education systems. 

NOCs and  IFs have a major  role  to play  in  this field and are implementing  great  projects  all  over  the  world.  For  example,  lo-

cal clubs must work with schools in the countries where such systems exist. The IOC  can  encourage,  disseminate  best practises  and  provide  support,  but  we rely on many others  to  lead projects at the community level.

What has Turkey done in recent years in terms of sport events organisation and sport promotion?Turkey has made considerable progress-es  in  many  areas,  not  only  in  organis-ing successfully major sport events but also when  it comes to the fight against doping. There have been challenges, of course, and the IOC appreciates the de-termination of the Turkish Olympic Com-mittee  to  implement  international  stan-dards and policies. The cleaning period is difficult – but after you have cleaned something it shines even brighter. 

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OH Jin Hyek, the best recurve archer in the world

By Marcos Lorenzo efore London 2012, not many pundits picked OH Jin  Hyek  to  win  the  recurve  men’s  tournament. 

That was because unbelievably, in the five years OH had been active on  the  international circuit before he became Olympic Champion, he had never won an individual gold.

What a place to get that first win out of the way. And the Korean star has not  taken his  foot off  the pedal since: OH has made the last four in every indi-vidual, team and mixed team competition he has shot in during 2013!

Over the three World Cup stag-es he attended  in 2013, OH won two  and  hauled  in  six  out  of  a  pos-sible  eight  golds  (including  the  team events) on his way to the World Cup Fi-nal  in  Paris. Which  he  promptly  won,  in entertaining style.

It must be time for a deserved break?Yes!  I  am  taking  some  time  off,  but  I  am  already starting to get prepared for next season.

You won the first World Cup Final you ever competed in this year. But things could have been different, if Gaël PREVOST had followed up his perfect

last set with another 10 in the shoot-off. What went through your mind?I have always trained hard for situations that put me under  lots  of  pressure.  So,  I  knew  I was  ready  to shoot the arrow. I was confident I could and would win, regardless of who I shot against.

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After a hugely successful 2013 season, 32-year-old Korean OH Jin Hyek is recognised as probably the best recurve archer around. He became Olympic Champion last year and has had a string of intimidating results ever since.

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Beating Brady ELLISON and DAI Xiaoxiang onthe way to gold was impressive, but you wereconfident from the start?At the time I had been putting a lot of preparation in for the WorldChampionships,  as  well  as  the World  Cup  Final.    I  shot  against them at previous occasions.

Considering your results over the last year, do you agree with being called the best recurve archer in the world?No! Not at all… I am still learning, and I am far from being the best. I consider every competition another lesson.

One competition you did not win was the world championships, where you took a second consecutive silver. Is this title still in your sights… maybe in 2015?I always push myself  to get good results. My goal  is to be a top archer in every single event, competition and tournament,  includ-ing the next world championships.

You lost the 2013 World Championships final in Belek to your teammate LEE Seungyun, who only joined Korea’s national team this year. What can you say about his emergence?LEE Seungyun is a strong archer, and he does not shoot like a 19 year old! His young age  is certainly not  reflected  in his shooting 

skills, and I am quite sure that he will play an important role in the Korean archery team in the future.

Do you consider your London 2012 Olympic Champion title your greatest achievement so far?Shooting  in  the Olympics  is a dream  for every athlete and  I  am grateful that I had the chance to win a gold medal in London. I re-ally appreciate everyone’s help getting me there.

Before London you had never won a major international individually, and your 2012 World Cup season was quite disappointing. How do you explain your sharp rise to sustained success?Although  I did not win major events  in  the past,  I always did my best  in every  tournament  I  took part  in.  I had people around me who were really supportive and helped me to get where I am now. These two things made the last year possible.

Was your late arrival on the international circuit due to the competitiveness of archery in Korea?Partially,  but  it  is  probably  the  way  the  Korean  team  pre-pares for international events that makes us so strong. Our technicians  study  international  rules  and  environments  in advance and prepare each archer for the situation they are faced with.

World Cup Finals in Paris

Archery World Cup in Wroclaw

World Archery Champhionship in Belek

Sightseeing in Antalya

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Are archers considered stars like football or baseball players?Archers are not as popular as football or baseball players in Korea, but archery has been gaining more popularity recently. Archery is now covered by the media–television and newspapers–more often, and the public is showing more interest as well.

Is archery covered by the Korean media more when the team is at international events?Yes. The  London  Olympics  made  a  great  impression,  and  many archery tournaments in Korea have learnt from the spectacle and delivery to improve to their events. So archery is gaining more and more recognition.

Korea’s recurve junior women took the top three individual spots on the podium at this year’s World Youth Championships in Wuxi. Is there a younger generation ready to fight you and your national teammates for the opportunity to represent Korea?I totally think so. The fact that Korean recurve archers ranked first, second and third in the junior women’s world championships is a  tremendous achievement. And,  to put  it  simply:  there  is  little or no difference between the shooting skills of junior and senior archers.

Many people say it is harder to become a Korean national champion than a world champion. Is that right?That is so true! There are so many great archers in Korea who can-not join the national team–so mistakes are not permitted. It would be difficult  for any archer to cope with the pressure of a Korean national championships for the first time.

How is archery integrated into schools in Korea, and how do young people get into the sport?School  teams get  a  lot  of  support  from  the Korea Archery Asso-ciation and they have a well-organised training system for young archers. There have been cases of teachers or coaches discover-ing  and  recommending  talented  students,  but  since  the  London Olympics last year more young people have chosen to join archery teams by themselves.

How are Korea’s national archery tournaments structured?Most  national  tournaments  basically  follow  World  Archery  rules. Every tournament is important because athletes need good results to be accepted in school teams or to join professional teams (OH shoots  for  H  Steel).  Korean  archers  treat  each  competition  with such extreme importance that we learn to not afford to not try our best in every match.

Archery World Cup in Antalya

Archery World Cup in Antalya

Sightseeing in Antalya

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Korea is traditionally recurve, but compound archers like SEOK Ji Hyun have performed well this year. Are compound bows suddenly popular in Korea?Yes, the Korean compound team was excellent this year. But still there is more work to be done for them to meet international stan-dards. They need to train hard. The number of compound archers and clubs in Korea is increasing, and I believe it will gain even more popularity in the future.

What is the next step for you?For  now,  because  I  am  an  athlete,  I  will  continue  training  extra hard to try and perform well in every competition. It would be great to work  in archery after  I  retire as a competitor, but  for now  I’m focused on shooting well and simply trying to be the best. Although, 

if I ever have the chance, I would like to become an IOC member… that is probably my ultimate goal.

World Archery Champhionship in BelekArchery World Cup in Wroclaw

World Archery Champhionship in BelekGold medal in mixed team with KI Bo Bae

Archery World Cup Finals in ParisGold medal in mixed team with YUN Ok Hee

World Archery Champhionship in Belek with teammate KI Bo Bae

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Milestone for 3D Archery: 2013 World Championships in Sardinia’s Emerald Coast

By Ardingo Scarzella ith  245 athletes  representing 29 nations,  the event held from 5 to 12 October in Sassari was 

an important milestone for the growth of the 3D dis-cipline. And the third time Italy had hosted its world championships, which had previously visited Latina and Genoa.

The  early  rounds  of  the  competition  were  set around the magnificent Mediterranean Lake Baratz, which was where the qualification and elimination rounds were shot at the 2010 European 3D Cham-pionships.  Such  impressive  scenery  has  proved very attractive to the archery world, drawing plenty of participants to a Grand Prix in 2006 and numer-ous national events in Sardinia in the past.

The semifinals and finals were broadcast live on national  television  by  Rai  Sport  from  Park  Baddi-manna, Sassari. It was an admirable technical effort, considering  the  team  had  to  follow  many  overlap-ping finals simultaneously!

As  evidence  of  the  discipline’s  international development,  well-known  international  archers like  Dave  Cousins  from  the  USA  made  the  trip to  Sassari.  And  plenty  of  favourites  returned from  the  previous  worlds,  held  in  Donnersbach–Planneralm, Austria  in  2011. The  French  teams looked to defend their two golds in the team com-petition, while compounds prepared to challenge 2011 title winners Lucy HOLDERNESS (GBR) and 

The Italian island of Sardinia, known for its incredible natural beauty and the warm hospitality offered by its inhabitants, hosted a record breaking edition of the World 3D Championships in 2013.

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Dave COUSINS (USA) Christa OCENASEK (AUT)

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Herwig  HAUNSCHMID  (AUS).  Also  in  Sassari  were  reigning champions  in  the  barebow–Andrea  RAIGEL  (AUS)  and  Bobby LARSSON (SWE)–longbow–GARRIDO LAZARO (ESP) and Paolo BUCCI (ITA)–and instinctive divisions–Christa OCENASEK (AUS) and Peter Garrett (CAN).

After the first round of competition around Sardinia’s only natu-ral  lake, some  leaders started  to pull away  from the pack. Dave COUSINS (USA) led the compound men on 1029, followed by Slo-venian archer TURSIC,  and MUSTAPIC  (CRO). Reigning women’s Lucy champion HOLDERNESS scored 971, ahead of COURPRON (FRA) and BIANCHI (ITA).

Bobby LARSSON’s 927 beat off an electrifying challenge from Spain’s pair of GARCIA and JUANOLA in the men’s barebow cat-egory,  while  Cinzia  NOZIGLIA  recovered  two  positions  over  the 

second half to take first place–with an 840 total–and leave PORTE (FRA) and Swedish archers NILSSON and BJORKLUND trailing.

Czech archer Tomas HANUS  topped  the  longbow men’s  lead-erboard with 829 after  the two days of qualification. Behind him, VERRIER from Belgium and CORVINO (FRA). After 48 arrows, Italy’s Guilia BARBARO was 27 points clear of  reigning women’s World Champion GARRIDO LAZARO, who had 729.

In the instinctive men’s competition, Italy’s Enzo LAZZARONI’s 873 trailed only Ferenc MOLNAR from Hungary on 906. While Szil-via TOTH MOLNARNE led the women with 731, closely followed by reigning World Champion from Austria, OCENASEK, and Francesca CAPRETTA (ITA), the reigning runner-up!

There were  few  surprises  during  the  elimination  stages, with most of the top ranked archers making the finals. The one notable 

Giacomo Luca FANTOZZI (ITA)

Team ITALY during the opening ceremony

Barebow Woman Gold Medal MatchJessica NILLSON (SWE) vs Gloria VILLA (ITA)

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exception:  top  American  archer  Dave  Cousins,  who  needed  a shoot-off to survive into the last stages of the competition!

Team finalsDenmark won men’s team gold by beating Hungary 102-93. Spain took  bronze,  who  won  their  final  match  against  the  team  from  Italy, 107-101.

Defending  champions,  COURPRON,  CLUZE  and  DOORS  from France,  shot  against  Julia  BARBARO,  Sonia BIANCHI  and Cinzia NOZIGLIA for the women’s team gold. The Italian archers started well,  leading first 25-21,  then 48-47, but were overtaken at  the third target. Heading into the last, trailing 77-74, the Italian team recovered, and won the match by two points: 103-101. Third place went to Sweden, who beat Austria 97-91.

Individual finalsHighly-billed USA archer Dave Cousins lived up to expectations in the finals. He beat József CSIKÓS from Denmark–44-38–to win the world title. Another Dane won bronze: Stig ANDERSON’s 43 was enough to overcome Antonio POMPEO (ITA) and his 37. After her defeat to Italy in the team competition, French archer Deborah COURPRON took revenge on Sonia BIANCHI in the com-pound women’s final. She took gold, with a final score of 41-34.

Giuseppe  SEIMANDI  added  a  second  men’s  barebow  world title to the one he claimed in 2007. The Italian athlete beat David GARCIA FERNANDEZ from Spain in the final, 37-31. Bronze went to Richard KOCOUREK (CZE), who was better than Swede Bobby LARSSON. Final score: 42-39. Italy topped the podium in the wom-en’s barebow,  too. Gloria VILLA put on a superb performance  to defeat Swedish archer Jessica NILSSON, 39-24.

Tears of joy filled the eyes of Italian Giacomo Luca FANTOZZI af-ter his exciting exchange with Czech archer Tomas HANUS ended in a longbow men’s world crown, 31-28. A two point victory, 26-24, handed Italian Marco PONTREMOLESI the bronze match over the top-qualifier from Hungary, Jozsef MOLNAR. Sophie CLUZE (FRA) prevented Giula BARBAO  (ITA)  from claiming her  third  individual women’s longbow title (she won in 2005 and 2007), with a 29-26 win. Estonia’s Ylle KELL beat Josefine DE ROEPSTORFF to bronze after two shoot-offs: 13-13, 11-10!

Wolfgang OCENASEK won the instinctive men’s world title over his Austrian compatriot Alexander PARSCHISEK, 32-29. In an Ital-ian derby for bronze, Giuliano FALETTI beat Enzo LAZZARONI, also 32-29. Another Austrian OCENASEK, Christa, successfully defend-ed her world crown against Nina Andrea STANDERHOLEN  in  the instinctive women’s final, 37-28.

Team DenmarkCompound Men Gold Medal MatchDave COUSINS (USA) vs Joszef CSIKOS (DEN)

Barebow Woman Podiumfrom Left: Jessica NILLSON (SWE), Gloria VILLA (ITA), Lina BJORKLUND (ìSWE)

Men Team PodiumHungary: Janos SZLEDAR - Jozsef MOLNAR - Ferenc MOLNARDenmark: Claus LARSEN - Stig ANDERSEN - Tom Haubert Rask NIELSENSpain: Jose Maria RODRIGUEZ - David GARCIA FERNANDEZ - Jose Luis IRIARTE  LARUMBE

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Medallists

Individual compound men Individual compound women

Dave COUSINS (USA)  Deborah COURPRON (FRA) 

József CSIKOS (DEN)  Sonia BIANCHI (ITA) 

Stig ANDERSEN (DEN)  Irene FRANCHINI (ITA) 

Individual barebow men Individual barebow women

David GARCIA (ESP)  Gloria VILLA (ITA) 

Giuseppe SEIMANDI (ITA)  Jessica NILSSON (SWE) 

Richard KOCOUREK (CZE)  Lina BJORKLUND (SWE) 

Longbow Man Gold Medallist: Giacomo Luca FANTOZZI (ITA) Sonia BIANCHI (ITA)

Compound Men Podium Joszef CSIKOS (DEN), Dave COUSINS (USA), Stig ANDERSEN (DEN)

Compound Women Podium Sonia BIANCHI (ITA), Deborah COURPRON (FRA), Irene FRANCHINI (ITA)

Team SWEDEN at the opening ceremonyCompound Men Gold Medal MatchDave COUSINS (USA) vs Joszef CSIKOS (DEN)

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Individual longbow men Individual longbow women

Giacomo Luca FANTOZZI (ITA)  Sophie CLUZE (FRA) 

Tomas HANUS (CZE)  Giulia BARBARO (ITA) 

Marco PONTREMOLESI (ITA)  Ylle KELL (EST) 

Individual instinctive men Individual instinctive women

Wolfgang OCENASEK (AUT)  Christa OCENASEK (AUT) 

Alexander PARSCHISEK (AUT)  Nina Andrea STANDERHOLEN (NOR) 

Giuliano FALETTI (ITA)  Inmaculada JIMENEZ (ESP) 

Men teams Women teams

DENMARK Stig ANDERSENTom NIELSENClaus LARSEN

ITALY Sonia BIANCHIGiulia BARBAROCinzia NOZIGLIA

HUNGARY Janos SZEDLARJózsef MOLNARFerenc MOLNAR

FRANCE Deborah COURPRONSophie CLUZEChantal PORTE

SPAIN Jose María RODRIGUEZJosé Luis IRIARTEDavid GARCIA

SWEDEN Lisa SODERSTENViola ANTMANJessica NILSSON

Women Team PodiumFRANCE: Sophie CLUZE - Chantal  PORTE - Deborah COURPRONITALY: Cinzia NOZIGLIA - Sonia BIANCHI - Giulia BARBAROSWEDEN: Lisa SODERSTEN - Viola ANTMAN - Jessica NILSSON

Opening Ceremony

Organizing Committee President Paolo PODDIGHE with WA First Vice President Mario SCARZELLA

Team LUXEMBOURG at the opening ceremony

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Medal Table

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total

 Italy 3 3 3 9

 France 2 1 3

 Austria 2 1 3

 Denmark 1 1 1 3

 Spain 1 2 3

 USA 1 1

 Sweden 1 2 3

 Czech Republic 1 1 2

 Hungary 1 1

 Norway 1 1

 Estonia 1 1

Women Team FRANCE

Women Team ITALY

Compound Men Gold MedalDave COUSINS (USA)Gloria VILLA (ITA) live on RAI SPORT

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Anxiety drug has no effect on Archery Performance

By Prof Dr Emin ERGENWorld Archery Medical and Sport

Sciences Committee Chairman

ith  the support  the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), World Archery recently carried out re-

search into the effects of anxiolytics on archery per-formance. Benzodiazepines,  the substances widely used in the treatment of anxiety, also demonstrate sedative,  hypnotic,  anterograde  amnesia,  muscle relaxation and anti-convulsing effects.

There have been limited studies on the influence of benzodiazepines on athletic performance. Benzo-diazepines are used by athletes  to combat anxiety prior  to  competition  or  fatigue,  usually  caused  by sleep deprivation due to long hours spent travelling. Although  the  use  of  doping  substances  is  rare  in sports requiring fine-tuned motor movements, there are rumours that some athletes use medicines that diminish  anxiety  and  reduce  body  sway  during  to improve their archery performance.

One physiological side effect of benzodiazepines is  an  increased  heart  rate.  During  a  recent  case study at a European Championships one elite female archer’s heart rate during practice, official practice and elimination was 120, 120 and more than 150 beats  per  minute  respectively. The  same  study  re-vealed  that  heart  rates  were  generally  higher  dur-ing the drawing and aiming phases, and decreased during an archer’s release. The average heart rate measured during this research was higher than that measured when benzodiazepines were investigated.

The  use  of  prohibited  substances  is  an  unethi-cal  practice,  against  the  principles  of  fair  play  and hazardous  to  the  health  of  athletes  in  sport. World 

Archery’s  Medical  and  Sport  Sciences  Committee (MSSC)  enlisted  the  help  of  a  research  team  to  in-vestigate  whether  anxiolytic  substances  have  an effect  on  archery  performance.  If  benzodiazepines were  found  to  improve  athletic  performance  in  ar-chery, these substances could be proposed as doping agents, included in the monitoring list and then in the prohibited  substances  list. World Archery  takes  fair play in archery very seriously, and such a result might indicate  possible  abuse  in  other  athletically-similar sports, like shooting.

The  purpose  of  the  study  was  to  investigate whether  taking  a  benzodiazepine  would  positively affect physical performance capacity, and increase the shooting  level of elite archers. Twenty four ath-letes participated in the study at Ankara’s Hacettepe University School of Sport Science and Technology. The  archers  undertook  the  same  exercises  before and after taking the anxiolytics, but were not aware when they had taken the benzodiazepine. They were tested  in  a  simulated  competition  environment  on scores  and  physical  parameters  including  body sway, bow fluctuations during aiming and shooting, heart rate and mechanical clicker reaction time (the time between clicker activation and arrow release).

Aim Point FluctuationHacettepe  University Technocity  (HUT)  developed  a special  device  to  measure  horizontal  and  vertical aiming displacement on  the  target, which was veri-fied as fit for purpose. An infrared beam was fixed to 

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Figure 2. Mechanical clicker reaction time detector, with microphone and infrared motion sensor, attached to bow.

A B

A B

Figure 1. Experimental setting for the project.

A

A B

B

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each archer’s bow and projected at a video screen while they shot. Software was written to detect the beam’s movements, which mir-rored the athlete’s aiming behaviour, and transferred the outputs to analogous data.

The  software  calculated  the  fluctuation  around  each  archer’s aiming point in the two seconds before and half second after the mechanical  clicker’s  activation.  It  then  normalised  the  data  and evaluated the relative horizontal and vertical shift each archer ex-perienced during the aiming phase.

Mechanical Clicker Reaction TimeA microphone  that detected  the sound of a metal clicker  impact was combined with an infrared sensor detecting arrow movement. The HUT device that measured the time taken for an arrow to be released after the activation of a mechanical clicker can be seen in Figures 2a and 2b.

During shooting, the archer draws the string back with an arrow underneath the clicker. When the clicker runs along the length of the arrow it drops off, impacts the bow and makes and sound. The HUT device picked up this sound via microphone, amplified it into a 5V electric signal and recorded it as the initiation of mechanical clicker reaction time (tclk).

The infrared sensor–with a triggering potential of 2kHz–identi-fied the moment at which the arrow was released and amplified the  signal  to  10V,  recording  it  as  the  end  of  mechanical  clicker reaction  time  (tinf). The  signals  were  recorded  using  a  16  byte analogous-digital  converter  (NI-6210)  to  a  computer  at  1/1000 second intervals.

Archery  is  a  very  individual  sport.  Each athlete  has  a  unique shooting  sequence and aiming pattern,  and will  respond  to ben-zodiazepine  differently.  However,  the  archers  tested  showed  no improvement  in  performance  over  the  measured  parameters  as a group.

It  is well-known  that  athletes  often experience  some  form of stress prior to or during competition, which may reduce or have an effect on their athlete performance. Reducing that stress is achiev-able with anxiolytic drugs, and benzodiazepines are the typical ex-ample. However, archers displayed no physiological or psychologi-cal  performance  enhancement  after  consuming  benzodiazepine during the research. The conclusion drawn is that benzodiazepine does not improve athletic performance in archery.

Research GroupEmin Ergen*, Caner Açıkada**, Tahir Hazır** Rüştü Güner*, Murat

Çilli**, Ergun Acar**

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis study was supported by WADA Project Reference Number: 08D01EE

The  research  team  acknowledges  the  valuable  support  of  Françoise

Dagouret*****, Serdar Arıtan**, Rüştü Onur***, Nursabah Başçı****,

Ziya Koruç**, Yıldırım Sara***, Aydın Balcı*, Mesut Çelebi*, Hülya

Savaş****, Öznur Oztaş Atalan****

  * Ankara University School of Medicine Sports Medicine Department, 

Cebeci, Ankara, Turkey

  ** Hacettepe  University  School  of  Sport  Sciences  and  Technology, 

Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

  *** Hacettepe  University  School  of  Medicine  Sports  Department  of 

Pharmacology, Sihhiye Turkish

 **** Turkish Doping Control Center, Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey

 ***** World Archery

Turkish Archery Federation, Abdullah Topaloğlu, Sirer Aydın, Alper

Aytaçoğlu, Gülşen Balcı,

Hacettepe Technocity, Turkey Engin Kıran

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Wuxi World Youth Championships: First step towards 2014 Youth Olympic Games

By Vanahé Antille hina’s  Jiangsu  Province  hosted  the  thirteenth edition of the World Youth Championships at the 

Wuxi  Sports  Centre  on  13-20  October.  Over  500 athletes  from  63  countries  competed  in  20  junior and  cadet  events,  including  individual,  team  and mixed team competitions.

Some  experienced  young  archers  travelled straight  to Wuxi  from  the  senior World  Champion-ships,  which  were  held  one  week  earlier  in  Belek, Antalya.  Several  world  records  were  broken,  and new archery talent emerged from a range of estab-lished and  improving countries, echoing  the world-wide development of the sport.

Youth Olympic Games Qualification TournamentThe competition week included the first qualification tournament  the  Youth  Olympic  Games,  which  are being  held  in  Nanjing–about  200km  northwest  of Wuxi in the Jiangsu province–from 16 to 28 August next year. In addition to the one spot in each gender category  automatically  awarded  to  China  as  host nation, 17 boys and 17 girls won quota places for their nations in Wuxi.

One  hundred  and  forty  competitors  from  50 countries  took part  in  the qualification  tournament open to recurve cadet archers born between 1 Jan-

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uary 1997 and 31 December 1999 – with a maximum of  three archers  per  National  Olympic  Committee  (NOC).  Archers  were seeded according to their qualification scores from the World Youth Championships  ranking  round,  and  shot  eliminations  from  1/64 to 1/16 rounds at 60m. NOCs with archers who won in the 1/16 round were awarded a maximum of one YOG place per gender. The losers in the 1/16 were then reseeded–competition brackets were reset and these archers continued the competition: vying for  the remaining YOG positions.

The following countries won quota places (the archer, or archers, who won the spot are in brackets):

MENArgentina (Francisco RODRIGUEZ), Belarus (Kiryl FIRSAU), Belgium (Rick  MARTENS),  Brazil  (Marcus  Vinicius  D’ALMEIDA),  Chinese Taipei  (HAN Yun-Chien), France (Thomas KOENIG and Mathieu JI-MENEZ), Germany (Andreas MAYR), Great Britain (Bradley DENNY), India (Ranjit NAIK and Atul VERMA), Korea (IM Ungyu, KIM Dongil and YOON Harim), Malaysia (M. NORHAIRULNIZAM and Muhamad Zarif  SYAHIIR), Mexico  (Luis Angel TAPIA), Netherlands  (Jan VAN TONGEREN),  Poland  (Marek  SZAFRAN),  Slovakia  (Boris  BALAZ), Slovenia (Gasper STRAJHAR) and Turkey (Orkun Ege TOKUSOGLU).

WOMENBelarus (Sviatlana KAZANSKAYA), Chinese Taipei (HUANG Li-Ting), France  (Mélanie  GAUBIL),  Great  Britain  (Bryony  PITMAN),  India (Sulekha SINGH), Indonesia (Diananda CHOIRUNISA), Israel (Maya 

RAYSIN), Italy (Vanessa LANDI), Korea (LEE Hyeseon) Japan (Miasa KOYKE), Mexico  (Rebeca MARQUEZ), Poland  (Sylwia ZYZANSKA), Russia (Valeria MYLNIKOVA), Spain (Alicia MARIN), Turkey (Yasemin Ecem ANAGOZ), Ukraine (Solomiya GNYP and Viktoria OLEKSIYK) and United States (Eliana CLAPS).

NOCs now own these places–national archery federations will nominate the archers they wish to represent their country at the Games and then request acceptance from their NOCs. The remain-ing places will go to the ones who claim spots at their respective continental  qualifying  tournaments,  host  nation  China  automati-cally receives one quota place per gender, and universality places will also be awarded.

RecurveRobin RAMAEKERS won  the  recurve  junior men’s  title,  his  first major and Belgium’s only gold  in Wuxi, one month short of his 19th  birthday. After  beating  tough  opponents  in  the  elimination rounds,  RAMAEKERS  scored  mostly  10s  in  the  final,  and  beat Kacper SIERAKOWSKI from Poland 7-3. The championship gold came  shortly  after  RAMAEKERS  showed  potential  at  his World Cup debut in Wroclaw by reaching the quarter-finals. Vitaliy KOM-ONYUK from the Ukraine–who is already experienced at the age of 20–won bronze.

The three Korean  junior women top qualifiers swept the re-curve junior women’s individual podium in their first internation-al event. JEON Sungeun won her gold final against SIM Yeji in a shoot-off, 10-9–and LIM Heeseon won her bronze final against 

REYNOLDS Danielle (USA) Compound Junior Mixed team from USAJOHNSTON Kalley and WILFER Alex

Recurve Junior Women bronze medal matchLIM Heeson (KOR) vs Begunhan Elf UNSAL (TUR)

Recurve Junior Women gold medal matchJEON Sunggeun (KOR) vs SIM Yeji (KOR)

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the  2010  European  bronze  medallist  from  Turkey,  Begünhan Elif UNSAL,  in a shoot-off, also 10-9! Korean gold, silver and bronze. Neither of the top Mexicans–Olympic medallist Mariana AVITIA and World Cup  finalist Alejandra VALENCIA–made  it  to the medal matches.

Despite their success in the individual competition–and break-ing the team match world record during eliminations–JEON, SIM and  LIM  could  not  defend  Korea’s  two  consecutive  team  golds. They  unexpectedly  lost  the  final  to  Anastasia  PAVLOVA,  Polina RODIONOVA  and  Olympian  Lidiia  SICHENIKOVA.  The  Ukrainian trio trailed by three points before the final six arrows but forced a shoot-off, which they won with a last-arrow 10 from RODIONOVA. It was the Ukraine’s only gold medal of this championships. Host country China beat defending silver medallists Chinese Taipei  in the bronze medal match.

Top  recurve  junior  men’s  scorers  in  the  eliminations,  Russia’s team of Galsan BAZARZHAPOV, Youth Olympic Games bronze med-allist Bolot TSYBZHITOV and Beligto TSYNGUEV won the gold medal. The United States kept it close for the first three ends, but disaster hit twins Daniel and Sean McLAUGHLIN and Jeremiah CUSICK in the fi-nal end: miss-6-7. Russia coasted towards the finish line and victory, 216-203. Both countries were back on the podium after missing out in 2011  in  this event. Team Netherlands – Jesher APPELS, Mitch DIELEMANS and world  senior  team silver medallist Sjef VAN DEN BERG – conqueror of top-seeded Korea earlier in the competition–scored a come-back victory over Belgium to take the bronze medal in a shoot-off. VAN DEN BERG released the winning 10.

KIM  Joo Wan  and SIM Yeji,  top  individual  qualifiers,  success-fully defended Korea’s recurve junior mixed team world champion title. They outscored surprising number 11 Spain in every end of the  final  for  a  comfortable  win,  150-137.  SIM Yeji’s  medal  tally increased to three: one gold and two silvers. Miguel ALVARINO and Mirene ETXEBERRIA’s silver medal was Spain’s first  in this event. The Russian pair of Kristina TIMOFEEVA and new team champion Bolot TSYBZHITOV won bronze.

Patrick HUSTON  is  the  new cadet man  to watch. The British archer  claimed  individual  and mixed  team gold medals.  Ranked fourth  after  qualifications–but  top  scorer  over  the  longer  dis-tances–17-year-old HUSTON steamrolled through his elimination matches, and his 6-2 win in the individual final over Sanzhar MUS-SAYEV  (KAZ) was no different. The 10th-seed Kazakhstani archer, also only 17, scored his country’s only podium. Mexico’s Luis Este-ban INFANTE won the bronze medal.

Asia dominated the women’s individual cadet podium. Top qual-ifier YEONG Yuri of Korea–competing in her first international event aged 15–beat third-ranked WU Jiaxin of host country China for a well-deserved  gold  medal.  YEONG’s  Korean  teammate,  14-year-old LEE Hyeseon won the bronze medal over surprise-Guatemalan Regina María ROMERO–the 58th seed and the only Central Ameri-can left at that stage in the competition.

France dominated the recurve cadet team events, winning both available golds. Laura RUGGIERI, Mélanie GAUBIL and Aurélie CAR-LIER posted their highest total of the championships to upset de-fending women’s champion, top scoring team in every elimination 

Daisy CLARK (GBR)

Compound Cadet Women gold FinalTANIGUCHI Sonia (USA) vs Alexandra SAVENKOVA (RUS)

Janine MEISSNER (GER)

KANG Un Ju (PRK)

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round and resounding-favourite Korea in the final, 221-217. Sec-ond-seeded China–LI Jiaman, ZHANG Lu and WU Jiaxin–snatched the third podium place in a one-sided match against the defending bronze medallists, Russia.

Inspired  by  their  female  counterparts’  performance, Thomas KOENIG, Romain FICHET and Mathieu JIMENEZ won France a sec-ond gold medal. Their surprising opponents  in the final, number 12 ranked Turkey, shot well below the mid-220 totals that upset Russia, the United States and top seed Chinese Taipei in the earli-er rounds. The French trio captured a good lead in the second end and went on to clinch the match before the final arrow. Defending champion Chinese Taipei–CHEN Wei-Chieh, HAN Yun-Chien and LEE Chin-Tang–beat India 216-215 in the bronze medal match.

“These victories are the fruit of a sports policy that we have been preparing for a long time”, explained French coach Nicolas RIFAUT. 

“Important groundwork was  laid within the training structure, and there are many national-level events and competition opportunities. The level in France is very high and places on the national team are very hard to obtain. These medals are a nice reward.”

In a cadet mixed team final between outsiders, Patrick HUSTON and Rebecca MARTIN overcame an  initial 6  to win Great Britain the  gold–145-140–over  France’s  Laura  RUGGIERI  and  Thomas KOENIG. The top two teams from qualifications, defending cham-pion Korea and China, met in a tight bronze medal match. After all sixteen arrows, Koreans KIM Dongil and JEONG Yuri emerged on top, 147-146.

CompoundTwo  archers  experienced  as  seniors  won  the  individual  com-pound junior titles. In a men’s final that pitted two 18-year-olds against each other, senior Team World Champion Stephan Han-sen  from  Denmark  bested  India’s  World  Cup  team  medallist Rajat  CHAUHAN  from  start  to  finish.  CHAUHAN’s  19-year-old teammate Jignas CHITTIBOMMA secured India a second spot on the podium. He won the bronze medal match with a  last-arrow 10–143-141–over Baptiste SCARCERIAUX, the Belgian who beat senior individual World Champion Mike SCHLOESSER (NED) ear-lier in the competition.

Star  of  the 2013 senior  season, Sara LOPEZ was expected to win the junior women’s title. The 18-year-old Colombian was unknown before June, and world number three and senior 15-ar-row match world record holder (a perfect 150) by the Wuxi came around.  Second-seeded  Janine  MEISSNER  (GER)  tied  the  gold medal final with the winner of the Antalya World Cup after regu-lation scoring, but LOPEZ was super  in  the shoot-off. She shot an X, very close to the centre, that her opponent just could not match. LOPEZ won the title, leaving 19-year-old MEISSNER silver for her first  international podium.  In  the duel  for bronze, Kailey JOHNSTON–team gold medallist at the 2011 Antalya World Cup–defeated  her  American  teammate  Paige  PEARCE,  cadet  world champion four years ago.

Some  surprising  world  champions  emerged  after  world record-shooting compound junior teams faltered. The men’s final was a rematch of the 2009 gold medal match won by the United States over Mexico. As new head-to-head world record holders, the  States  team  of  Danny  BUTTON,  Bridger  DEATON  and Alex 

David MONTIEL (MEX)

Maja ORLIC (CRO)

Recurve Junior Men Team from JAPAN

Stephan HANSEN (DEN)

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WIFLER  were  heavy  favourites.  They  scored  238  in  the  semi-finals–only  one  point  short  of  the  senior  world  record  held  by archery legends Braden GELLENTHIEN, Jesse BROADWATER and Reo WILDE.

In  the  final,  a  bad  first  end  of  54  put  the  United  States  four points behind Mexico from the start. Mario CARDOSO, Adolfo ME-DINA and David MONTIEL were consistent and steady, scoring 58 each of their first three ends and 59 in the last. Even a perfect 60 to  finish  proved  useless  for  the  USA  trio,  and  Mexico  won  gold. Sudhakar  Kumar  PASWAN,  Rajat  CHAUHAN  and  Jignas  CHITTI-BOMMA won a surprise bronze when Great Britain failed to shoot their final arrow in a match that was all but lost for India.

The  top  four  qualifying  teams made  it  to  the  junior women’s finals.  Number  one  ranked  United  States–individual  bronze  final-ists Kailey JOHNSTON and Paige PEARCE, and Lexi JELLER–took a small but consistent lead over Russia from the start of the gold medal  match.  Mariia  VINOGRADOVA,  Anna  LEMEZA  and  Elena ELIZAROVA  set  a  new world  record  of  228  in  the  quarter-finals, but could not find that level against the USA. The States team won 225-221, and Russia settled for silver for the fourth consecutive time  in  this  category.  Jyothi  Surekha VENNAM,  Jayalakshmi  SA-RIKONDA and Swati DUDHWAL clinched bronze for India in a 223-214 victory over Mexico.

Second-seed Colombia and the top-ranked United States con-tested  the  junior  compound  mixed  team  final.  Sara  LOPEZ  and Camilo Andrés  CARDONA  trailed Alex WIFLER  and  Kailey  JOHN-STON at  the halfway mark, but a perfect 40 reduced the gap to one point. LOPEZ and CARDONA shot a better last end and sealed Colombia’s  first  ever  mixed  team  victory,  154-153.  The  United States  settled  for  a  second  consecutive  silver  medal  in  this  cat-egory. Jignas CHITTIBOMMA and Jyothi Surekha VENNA won India the bronze with a 153-144 win over Belgium.

The top compound cadet men’s qualifier, 16-year-old Domagoj BUDEN of Croatia, overcame a disappointing start to win his gold final  against  Renaud  DOMANSKI  (BEL)–who  was  runner-up  two years ago. Dubravko BUDEN has now coached his two children to world championship  titles: Domagoj’s sister  Ivana won the world field in 2012, and came close to winning senior gold in Belek. Ma-rio VAVRO joined Domagoj on the podium after winning bronze.

Alexandra SAVENKOVA dominated the cadet women’s category in her  first  international  event. She  started  the week by  topping qualification,  then  tied  the  cadet  match  world  record  (147)  and left Wuxi with three medals, including the coveted individual gold! The  17-year-old  archer,  who  now  aims  to  make  Russia’s  senior team, met Sonia TANIGUCHI (USA) in the individual final. A perfect start gave the American an initial lead, but SAVENKOVA recovered and then secured the win, 145-142. Maja ORLIC (CRO)–who came fourth at the senior World Championships aged only 16–claimed the bronze medal.

In  the  cadet  men’s  gold  medal  match,  second-seed  Turkey defeated a surprising Canadian  team that had upset  two of  the favourites in the elimination rounds. Furkan DERNEKLI, Baris TAN-DOGAN and Samet Can YAKALI built a  lead  in  the first end and only extended the gap over Hunter McGINNIS, Logan KUPCHANKO and Tyler MURPHY as the match progressed, eventually winning 224-218.

ZHU Jiani (CHN)

Jeroen SMULDERS (NED), Anna-Sofia AALTONEN (FIN)

Miguel ALVARINO GARCIA (ESP), Jose Miguel CRUZ REYES (MEX), Javier GONZALES (ESP)

Compound Cadet Mixed Team gold medallist Russia: Anton BULAEV - Alexandra SAVENKOVA

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Top-seeded Mexico was behind in the first half of their bronze medal match  against  the United States,  but Ricardo GONZALEZ, Rodolfo GONZALEZ and Cecilio QUEVEDO flipped  the advantage with one end to go. The match came down to the last arrow, and Mexico needed a 10 to win. With 2 seconds on the clock, Rodolfo GONZALEZ shot 10! Mexico’s match: 228-227.

The  United  States  women  successfully  defended  their  cadet team title. Returning triple-gold medallist Emily FISCHER, and indi-

vidual finalists Sonia TANIGUCHI and Danielle REYNOLDS–seeded first–beat  Sofia  KHLYSTOVA,  Ekaterina  MAKEEVA  and Alexandra SAVENKOVA from Russia, 226-218. Great Britain’s sisters Kirsten and Aalin Elisse GEORGE, and Rebecca LENNON, won the bronze medal over Mexico.

The mixed team title was pocketed by Alexandra SAVENKOVA and Anton BULAEV, who was also  competing  in  his  first  interna-tional event. They defeated experienced Croatian archers Domagoj 

Compound Men Podium: From Left: Rajat CHAUHAN (IND), Stephan HANSEN (DEN), Jignas CHITTIBOMMA (IND)

Coumpound Cadet Woman Podium: From left: Maja ORLIC (CRO), Alexandra SAVENKOVA (RUS), Sonia TANIGUCHI (USA)

TANIGUCHI Sonia (USA) Sara LOPEZ (COL)

Juan Carlos HOLGADOCompound cadet boys team: From Left: Furkan DERNEKLI, Baris TANDOGAN, Samet Can YAKALI (TUR)

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BUDEN and Maja ORLIC  in the final, 153-151. Cecilio QUEVEDO and Fernanda SANDOVAL beat India 149-146 to win bronze, and Mexico’s fourth podium.

Coach  Santiago AVITIA,  older  brother  of  Olympic  bronze-win-ning Mariana, explained Mexico’s success in Wuxi: “Not only are more young people getting involved in the sport, but they have a stronger desire to win. Mexico’s two Olympic archery medals won in London–including one by an 18-year-old junior – were an addi-tional wave of motivation, as young archers realised they are on the right track and that the sport’s highest goals are within their reach.”

The  2013 World Youth  Championships  saw  a  record  number of nations winning podium places. Twenty-one countries  left  the event with a medal, more than the 15 at Ogden 2009 and 18 at Legnica 2011, evidence of archery’s worldwide development. Ko-rea and Russia won three world champion titles apiece, while Great Britain, France, Colombia and Russia each won two. Korea led the medal table with nine in total (3 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze) ahead of Russia (3, 2, 1) and the United States (2, 4, 1).

Stephan HANSEN (DEN) Robin RAMAEKERS (BEL)

Lidiia SICHENIKOVA (UKR)German team members supporting teammates

Tuana UGUR (TUR)

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Koreans on stands Event Judges

Vitaliy KOMONYUK (UKR) Mexican Compound Cadet Mixed Team Cecilio QUEVEDO and Fernanda SANDOVAL

Opening Parade

Recurve Cadet Women team podium: From left: China, France, Korea Chinese Official shooting an opening arrow

Mexican Team members World Archery TV

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Compound Junior Men Team podium: From Left: India, Mexico, USA

Recurve Junior Mixed Team podium: From left: Russia, Korea, Spain Recurve Cadet Mixed Team from GBR: Patrick HOUSTON and Rebecca MARTIN  with coach Lloyd BROWN

Compound Junior Women Team gold medallist: Kalley JOHNSTON - Lexi KELLER - Paige PEARCE

Stephan HANSEN (DEN) Irem OZKAN (TUR)

Ukraine Recurve Junior woman team Traditional dance during opening ceremony

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Medallists

Individual recurve junior men Individual recurve junior women

Robin RAMAEKERS (BEL)  JEON Sungeun (KOR) 

Kacper SIERAKOWSKI (POL)  SIM Yeji (KOR) 

Vitaliy KOMONYUK (UKR)  LIM Heeseon (KOR) 

 Kacper SIERAKOWSKI (POL) Regina Maria ROMERO (GUA)

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Individual compound junior men Individual compound junior women

Stephan HANSEN (DEN)  Sara LOPEZ (COL) 

Rajat CHAUHAN (IND)  Janine MEISSNER (GER) 

Jignas CHITTIBOMMA (IND)  Kalley JOHNSTON (USA) 

Recurve junior men teams Recurve junior women teams

RUSSIAGalsan BAZARZHAPOVBolot TSYBZHITOVBeligto TSYNGUEV

UKRAINEAnastasia PAVLOVAPolina RODIONOVALidiia SICHENIKOVA

USAJeremiah CUSICKDaniel McLAUGHLINSean McLAUGHLIN

KOREAJEON SungeunLIM HeeseonSIM Yeji

NETHERLANDSJesher APPELSMitch DIELMANSSjef VAN DEN BERG

CHINAZHANG XinyanZHU JianiZHU Yuwei

Compound junior men teams Compound junior women teams

MEXICOMario CARDOSOAdolfo MEDINADavid MONTIEL

USAKalley JOHNSTONLexi KELLERPaige PEARCE

USADanny BUTTONBridger DEATONAlex WIFLER

RUSSIAElena ELIZAROVAAnna LEMEZAMariia VINOGRADOVA

INDIARajat CHAUHANJignas CHITTIBOMMASudhakar Kumar PASWAN

INDIASwati DUDHWALJayalakshmi SARIKONDAJyothi Surekha VENNAM

Kailey JOHNSTON (USA) Isaac LOPEZ  BUENO (COL) Paige PEARCE (USA)

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Recurve junior mixed teams Compound junior mixed teams

KOREASIM YejiKIM Joo Wan

COLOMBIASara LOPEZCamilo Andrés CARDONA

SPAINMirene ETXEBERRIAMiguel ALVARINO

USAKailey JOHNSTONAlex WIFLER

RUSSIAKristina TIMOFEEVABolot TSYBZHITOV

INDIAJyothi Surekha VENNAMJignas CHITTIBOMMA

Individual recurve cadet boys Individual recurve cadet girls

Patrick HUSTON (GBR)  JEONG Yuri (KOR) 

Sanzhar MUSSAYEV (KAZ)  WU Jiaxin (CHN) 

Luis Esteban INFANTE (MEX)  LEE Hyeseon (KOR) 

Individual compound cadet boys Individual compound cadet girls

Domagoj BUDEN (CRO)  Alexandra SAVENKOVA (RUS) 

Renaud DOMANSKI (BEL)  Sonia TANIGUCHI (USA) 

Mario VAVRO (CRO)  Maja ORLIC (CRO) 

Laura RUGGIERI (FRA) Recurve Junior men team from USA Runa GRYDELAND (NOR)

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Recurve cadet boys teams Recurve cadet girls teams

FRANCERomain FICHETMathieu JIMENEZThomas KOENIG

FRANCEAurélie CARLIERMélanie GAUBILLaura RUGGIERI

TURKEYBerat AYDINMete GAZOZOrkun Ege TOKUSOGLU

KOREAJEONG YuriLEE HyeseonLEE Sodam

CH. TAIPEICHEN Wei-ChiehHAN Yun-ChienLEE Chin-Tang

CHINALI JiamanWU JiaxinZHANG Lu

Compound cadet boys teams Compound cadet girls teams

TURKEYFurkan DERNEKLIBaris TANDOGANSamet Can YAKALI

USAEmily FISCHERDanielle REYNOLDSSonia TANIGUCHI

CANADALogan KUPCHANKOHunter McGINNISTyler MURPHY

RUSSIASofia KHLYSTOVAEkaterina MAKEEVAAlexandra SAVENKOVA

MEXICORicardo GONZALEZRodolfo GONZALEZCecilio QUEVEDO

GR. BRITAINAalin Elisse GEORGEKirsten GEORGERebecca LENNON

Recurve Cadet men team from France

Janine MEISSNER (GER)

Maria VLAD (ROU) vs Mariyo OGAWA (JPN)

Recurve Junior Women team from Ukraine

Mariia VINOGRADOVA (RUS)

Regina Maria ROMERO (GUA) and her coach

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Recurve cadet mixed teams Compound cadet mixed teams

GR. BRITAINRebecca MARTINPatrick HUSTON

RUSSIAAlexandra SAVENKOVAAnton BULAEV

FRANCELaura RUGGIERIThomas KOENIG

CROATIAMaja ORLICDomagoj BUDEN

KOREAJEONG YuriKIM Dongil

MEXICOFernanda SANDOVALCecilio QUEVEDO

Medal Table

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total

Korea 3 3 3 9

 Russia 3 2 1 6

 USA 2 4 1 7

 France 2 1 3

 Great Britain 2 1 3

 Colombia 2 2

 Croatia 1 1 2 4

 Belgium 1 1 2

 Turkey 1 1 2

 Mexico 1 3 4

 Ukraine 1 1 2

 Denmark 1 1

 India 1 4 5

 China 1 2 3

 Canada 1 1

 Spain 1 1

 Germany 1 1

 Kazakhstan 1 1

 Poland 1 1

 Netherlands 1 1

 Chinese Taipei 1 1

Alexey ARTEMKIN (RUS) Maja ORLIC (CRO)

Team SHIBUYA rules Target Archery!

Christie COLIN, USA 7 Gold Medals at the 2011 WA World Cup

Sergio PAGNI, ITA 2010 & 2011 WA World Cup Champion

Natalia VALEEVA, ITA Multiple World Champion

Christopher PERKINS, CAN 2011 World Champion

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Archery dedicated peopleInsight on Margaret TUMUSIIME from Uganda:

“Archery is my life!”

By Deqa Niamkey urrently the Secretary General of Uganda Archery Federation, Margaret TUMUSIIME was born on 2 

June 1962. She  is married to Mustafa MWESIDGE, is a mother of four and grandmother to three grand-children, and lives in the countryside just outside of Kampala. While taking care of her farm, she teaches and practises archery on a daily basis. She  fell  in love  with  the  sport  thanks  to  her  husband  and  a Canadian  friend,  and  now  shares  her  passion  for archery with anyone she comes across.

Margaret  became  the  first  archer  to  represent Uganda at an Olympic Games when she competed at Sydney in 2000. Aside from the spectacle of the event,  the  organisation  and  the  media,  what  sur-prised Margaret most was the friendly atmosphere among everyone on the field of play. She truly felt that she was part of a worldwide archery family.

Until the end of her competitive career in 2008, 

Margaret developed her skills and  learned a huge amount while travelling to and participating at major archery events. Her best results were 4th at the 1996 African Championships, 7th at the 2000 Olympic Af-rican Continental Qualification Tournament (CQT) in South Africa and 9th at the African CQT in 2008.

After  the Olympic Games  in 2000, Margaret  re-alised  she  had  the  desire  to  pass  on  her  archery knowledge to future generations. She began coach-ing in 2004. Three years later she became national coach of the Uganda archery team, as well as tak-ing on the role of media coordinator for her national federation!

In  2011,  Olympic  Solidarity  granted  Margaret a  scholarship  to  study  sports  science  at  Semmel-weis University  in Budapest. The three-month  long course she successfully completed helped develop her coaching skills.

After becoming the first archer to represent Uganda at an Olympic Games, Margaret TUMUSIIME became the African country’s national coach. She and her family are key to the development of archery in Uganda.

Margaret with other delegations at the Sydney Olympic Games Opening Ceremony World Archery Training camp in Africa

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Margaret and two of her archers attended an Olympic Solidarity training camp in Marrakesh in 2012. The course was led by World Archery  Development  and  Education  Director  Pascal  COLMAIRE. Margaret was also responsible for the Ugandan national team at the 2012 African CQT in Rabat, during their campaign to qualify for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Now, she multitasks for the Ugandan  national  federation,  inspiring  and  contributing  tremen-dously to the development of archery in her country.

The Ugandan Archery Federation, with the support of its National Olympic Committee, recently held their first regional coaching course. Organised by Margaret, with assistance from her husband, son and one daughter, seventeen coaches from Uganda, Somalia and Rwanda (14 men and two women) took part. Pascal COLMAIRE, who conduct-ed the course, reported that “it was one of the best Olympic courses for archery coaches ever held in Africa, if not the best.”

Margaret’s  children  are  following  in  their  mother’s  footsteps. Daughter Shamim  is currently Uganda’s best  female archer and her son Hassan is also part of the national team. Hassan recently visited  Rwanda  to  assist  the  young  national  archery  federation there  develop  the  sport  of  archery.  Such  collaboration  between World Archery Member Associations in Africa deserves the archery family’s acknowledgement and support.

Looking to the future, Margaret’s vision is “promoting, develop-ing and sustaining archery in Uganda and Africa as a whole”.

World Archery  thanks  Margaret  and  her  family  for  their  long-time commitment and continuous efforts to develop archery in their country  and abroad. And Margaret  is  just  one example;  archery families around the world are doing great things for the sport, and we appreciate them all.

Preparing for the Sydney Games in Adelaide Getting ready to walk in the Sydney Opening Ceremony Preparing for the Sydney Games in Adelaide

Margaret at the World Archery training centre in Cairo Margaret preparing for the Sydney Olympics

Margaret having a rest at the Sydney Olympics

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Taipei hosted the 18th edition of the Asian Championships

By Marcos Lorenzo he event also included Asia’s Continental Qualifi-cation Tournament for next year’s Youth Olympic 

Games, open to cadet recurve archers. Developing archery nations Mongolia, Kazakhstan and the Phil-ippines secured places in Nanjing.

YOG continental qualificationFour  Nanjing  2014  quota  spots  were  available  in the  Continental  Qualification  Tournament,  open  to recurve cadet  archers. The winning nations would join the 18 already qualified for the event after the World Youth Championships in Wuxi.

Luis  Gabriel  MORENO  and  Bianca  GOTUACO won the Philippines spots in both the girls’ and boys’ events.  In  the final, MORENO beat Panjaji Bukhori RAHMAT  from  Indonesia,  who  claimed  the  other 

available boys’ place. Aruzhan ABDRAZAK won the girls’  tournament,  meaning  Kazakhstan  can  com-pete in Nanjing next year.

Recurve men teamJIN Jae Wang won two silvers at World Cup stages this year. He claimed the 2013 recurve men’s Asian Champion  team  title  with  KU  Bonchan  and  JUNG Sung Won after beating Malaysia in the semi-finals and then Japan in the final, 224-220.

Silver medallists Takaharu FURUKAWA, Shungo TABATA and Shohei OTA had overcome Chinese Tai-pei in the semi-finals. Host archers KUO Cheng-Wei, CHANG Wei-Hsiang and CHU Shu-Yu took bronze as consolation,  instead  of  World  Cup  Finalist  Khairul Anuar MOHAMAD and his teammates from Malaysia.

Korea, India and host country Chinese Taipei each claimed at least two titles at the 2013 Asian Championships, in a stark reminder of which countries from the region lead on the international scene.

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Mr. Sanguan KOSAVINTA (THA) - World Archery Vice President KATO Ayano (JPN)

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Compound women individualThe compound women  team bronze medallists  retook  to  the po-dium in a Korean individual medal sweep. SEOK Ji Hyun reclaimed her Asian Champion title from 2009 while YOUN So Jung settled for silver. The bronze medal went to CHOI Bomin, who upset Chi-nese Taipei’s CHEN Li Ju by a point.

Compound men individualIran’s  only  gold  medal  of  the  championships  came  thanks  to Hamzeh NEKOEEI’s  triumph  in  the compound men’s competition. He  prevented  an  all-Indian  gold  medal  match  by  beating  Sand-eep KUMAR in a semi-finals shoot-off while KUMAR’s teammate Abhishek VERMA beat Thailand’s Chanchai WONG. NEKOEEI then relegated VERMA to silver and KUMAR overcame WONG for bronze.

Compound mixed teamVERMA won his third medal and second gold of these champion-ships  partnered with  Lily Chanu PAONAM. They worked hard  to beat  Iranian pair Mino ABEDI and Amir KAZEMPOOR in  the com-pound mixed team final. Chinese Taipei claimed bronze after WEN Ning-Meng and KUNG Lin-Hsiang built a clear lead over Korea.

Recurve women individualLE Chien-Ying eliminated Deepika KUMARI and JOO Hyung Jung before  orchestrating  a  final  triumph  over  JUNG  Dasomi  to  take recurve  women’s  gold  for  Chinese Taipei.  JOO,  who  was Asian Champion in 2009, did not step onto the podium this time as she lost the bronze medal match to Bombayla Devi LAISHRAM.

Recurve women teamKorea’s recurve women dominated in the team event. CHOI Misum, Joo Hyun Jung and CHU Shu-Yu took home the gold medal thanks to a victory over Chinese Taipei. Despite their excellent results this World Cup season, TAN Ya-Ting, LE Chien-Ying and LIN Shih-Chia floundered  in the final. Japan recovered from their semi-final de-feat to Korea by beating Indonesia: bronze for Ayano KATO, Kaori KAWANAKA and Yuki HAYASHI.

Compound men teamAbhishek VERMA, Ratan Singh KURAIJAM and Sandeep KUMAR won  a  strongly-contested  compound  men’s  team  gold  for  India. They eliminated Chinese Taipei in the semi-finals and beat Korea in the final. CHOI Yong Hee, KIM Jongho and World Cup Finalist MIN Lihong  lost by  just  two points.  Iran disappointed  local spectators watching the bronze match: Amir KAZEMPOOR, Hamzeh NEKOEEI and Esmaeil EBADI beat hosts to secure the medal.

Compound women teamChinese  Taipei’s  compound  women  handed  the  hosts  an  Asian Championships team title with a clear victory over Iran in the final. WEN Ning-Meng, CHEN Li Ju and HUANG  I-Jou’s 224  total was seven points clear of Mino ABEDI, Shabnam SARLAK and Sakineh GHASEMPOUR.  Korea’s  CHOI  Bomin,  SEOK  Ji  Hyun  and YOUNG So  Jung,  who  had  lost  to  Iran  in  the  semi-finals,  beat  India  to bronze–222-217.

Women Team  from I.R.IRAN

Khairul Anuar MOHAMAD (MAS)

Compound Women Team PodiumFrom Left: .R. Iran, Chinese Taipei, Korea

HUANG I-Jou (TPE)

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Recurve mixed teamTriple  World  Cup  Finalist  Deepika  KUMARI  finally  won  a  gold medal with  her  recurve mixed  team partner  Jayanta TALUKDAR. They breezed past Chinese Taipei in the semis and Koreans CHOI Misun and KU Bonchan  in  the final  to  take  the Asian Champion-ships crown. TAN Ya-Ting and KUO Cheng-Wei from Chinese Taipei claimed a surprising bronze over Indonesia.

Recurve men individualOlympic silver medallist Takaharu FURUKAWA from Japan was the strongest  in Chinese Taipei. After a straight-set win over KU Bon-chan in the semis, he scored only 10s in his final against Gantugs JANTSAN. JUNG Sung Won beat KU in the all-Korean bronze medal match.

Team INDIA - Compound Men Team Gold Medal Recurve Men Podium: from Left: Gantugs JANTSAN (MGL), Takaharu FURUKAWA (JPN), JUNG Sung Won (KOR)

CHOI Bomin (KOR)

Deepika KUMARI (IND)

Hamzeh NEKOEEI (IRI)

Team KAZAKHSTAN

Marcos LORENZO and Ardingo SCARZELLA

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MedallistsIndividual recurve men Individual recurve women

Takaharu FURUKAWA (JPN)  LE Chien-Ying (TPE) 

Gantugs JANTSAN (MGL)  JUNG Dasomi (KOR) 

JUNG Sung Won (KOR)  Bombayla Devi LAISHRAM (IND) 

Individual compound men Individual compound women

Hamzeh NEKOEEI (IRI)  SEOK Ji Hyun (KOR) 

Abhishek VERMA (IND)  YOUN So Jung (KOR) 

Sandeep KUMAR (IND)  CHOI Bomin (KOR) 

Recurve men teams Recurve women teams

KOREAKU BonchanJIN Jae WangJUNG Sung Won

KOREACHOI MisunJOO Hyun-JungJUNG Dasomi

JAPANTakaharu FURUKAWAShungo TABATAShohei OTA

CHINESE TAIPEITAN Ya-TingLE Chien-YingLIN Shih-Chia

CHINESE TAIPEIKUO Cheng-WeiCHANG Wei-HsiangCHU Shu-Yu

JAPANAyano KATOKaori KAWANAKAYuki HAYASHI

Matteo PISANI Korean Athletes supportning their teammates

Team MALAYSIA Team JAPAN

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Compound men teams Compound women teams

INDIAAbhishek VERMARatan Singh KHURAIJAMSandeep KUMAR

CHINESE TAIPEIWEN Ning-MengCHEN Li JuHUANG I-Jou

KOREAMIN LihongCHOI Yong HeeKIM Jongho

IRANMino ABEDIShabnam SARLAKSakineh GHASEMPOUR

IRANAmir KAZEMPOORHamzeh NEKOEEIEsmaeil EBADI

KOREACHOI BominSEOK Ji HyunYOUN So Jung

Recurve mixed teams Compound mixed teams

INDIADeepika KUMARIJayanta TALUKDAR

INDIALily Chanu PAONAMAbhishek VERMA

KOREACHOI MisunKU Bonchan

IRANMino ABEDIAmir KAZEMPOOR

CHINESE TAIPEITAN Ya-TingKUO Cheng-Wei

CHINESE TAIPEIWEN Ning-MengKUNG Lin-Hsiang

YOG continental qualification boys YOG continental qualification girls

Luis Gabriel MORENO (PHI)  Aruzhan ABDRAZAK (KAZ) 

Panjaji Bukhori RAHMAT (INA)  Bianca GOTUACO (PHI) 

Ansar YAGUDIYEV (KAZ)  Oyuntungalag CHIMEDTSEREN (MGL) 

Medal Table of the Asian Championships

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total

 Korea 3 4 3 10

 India 3 1 2 6

 Chinese Taipei 2 1 3 6

 Iran 1 2 1 4

 Japan 1 1 1 3

 Mongolia 1 1

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Bangkok sets new standards for international para-archery

By Carole HicksPara-Archery Committee

Chairwoman

ome 230 athletes  from 35 countries  competed in  recurve men and women’s W2 and standing, 

compound men and women’s open, and men’s W1 competitions in Thailand’s superb Rajamangala sta-dium. Compound and recurve men and women shot in team and mixed team tournaments as well. The event marked the last time these classifications will be used until at least after Rio 2016.

W1 athletes, those requiring significant levels of support, shot qualification and match play at 50-me-tres for the first time. These athletes can choose to use either a recurve, with a release aid if their clas-sification permits it, or a compound bow that draws at  less  than  45lbs,  with  essentially  recurve  sights. Competition was tight, across all the classes.

Russia’s  recurve  men’s  standing  Paralympic Champion  Timur  TUCHINOV  made  a  triumphant return to the international stage. He fought off Yuri KOPIY  from  the Ukraine  to  claim gold  in  Bangkok and  improve  on  his  bronze  medal  from  the  2011 World Championships in Turin.

Mel  CLARK  could  have  forced  a  repeat  of  the London  Games  compound  women’s  open  final against her Great British teammate and the winner of  that  match  last  summer,  Danielle  BROWN.  But CLARK lost her semi-final against Burcu DAG from Turkey,  before  beating  the  Ukraine’s  Larysa  MIKH-NIEVA to take the bronze medal.

DAG went  on  to  challenge  two-time Paralym-pic  winner  BROWN  for  gold. The Turkish  archer 

Twelve months on from the triumph of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, athletes looked to repeat their successes or turn the tables on those victories at the 2013 World Archery Para Championships in Bangkok.

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Flag Handover ceremony. Maj.General Osoth giving the flag to Mario Scarzella 1st Vice President of World Archery

Prof. Dr. Ugur ERDENER giving a present to the participating delegations at the Opening Ceremony

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took an early lead, but let the experienced Brit catch up and tie the match  to  force a one-arrow shoot-off. Dani’s  competition record made her the favourite to win this battle. But after the pair both shot 9s,  it was clear Burcu DAG’s arrow was much closer to the centre.

Another British archer made the recurve men’s W2 (wheelchair athletes) gold medal match. Paul BROWNE seemed totally relaxed as he came to  the  line  to shoot his first arrow, not releasing his 10-second lead up time was up and he was well into the 20-sec-ond shooting period! He finally shot but the clock had run out, and he lost his highest scoring arrow that end.

On top of the tense tournament unfolding in the Rajamangala National Stadium,  team managers, coaches and other officials were  keen  to  discuss  the  changes  to  para-archery  that  come into  effect  in  2014.  In  particular,  the  alterations  to  the  sport classes for the Paralympic Games in Rio and the classification of athletes.

New sport classes for RioWorld Archery has tried repeatedly to introduce a team event for compound men and women into the Paralympic programme. Un-fortunately, its efforts have proven unsuccessful so far.

This has meant that while recurve athletes were able to compete for  two  medals–individual  and  team–compound  and W1  athletes only had an individual competition. World Archery strongly supports equality, especially for women and those needing greater support.

In  an  effort  to  promote  fairness, World Archery  consulted  ar-chers on making changes to the Paralympic sport classes through para-archery’s  representative  on  its  Athletes’  Committee,  Pippa BRITTON,  officials  from  around  the  world  and  other  interested parties on its website. As a consequence, new classes have been negotiated with the IPC for Rio 2016.

Recurve, compound and W1 men and women will compete in individual and mixed team events at the next Paralympic Games. This means that each athlete will have the opportunity to compete for two medals, making it fairer for everyone.

Compound W1 in action during the qualification round Compound Open Women duirng the qualification round

The local Thai fanclub Fairplay in action during the World Championships

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Many  Member  Associations  will  have  their  own  opinions  on managing  these changes  to  the Paralympic schedule, but World Archery’s Para-Archery Committee believe they will lead to greater involvement of Para athletes.

New classification levelsIt  was  hard  for  spectators  and  the  media  to  understand  the  vi-sual disparity between some athletes in the archery competition at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. World Archery and the IPC believe that international para-archery should only be for athletes whose physical disability has a significant effect on their ability to shoot a bow and arrow at an elite level.

To better assess the likely effect of disability, World Archery has changed the minimum classification level for the lower limb from 15 to 25 points. The upper limb score of 25 points has not changed, but it will no longer be possible to add the upper and lower limb scores together to reach the necessary total.

All  athletes need  to be  reclassified under  the new guidelines, which come into effect  in April 2014, so this opportunity was of-

fered as archers dropped out of  the competition  in Thailand. As standing athletes were  seen as most  at  risk of  losing  their  clas-sification, they were given priority.

Of course, where decisions  to  revoke a classification have been  or  will  be  made,  there  must  be  the  opportunity  for  ap-peal. World Archery is seeking centres willing to host those who wish  to appeal, and  the details of  this are available on World Archery’s website.

Some medallists  from London  or  even Bangkok may  no  lon-ger qualify as classified para archers under the new rules. These archers won medals under the rules, and their successes in para-archery were fair and admirable. We wish those who will not be able  to  shoot  as  para  athletes  any  longer  success  in  the wider archery community.

The World Archery  Para  Championships  in  Bangkok  set  new standards in the organisation and presentation of para-archery. It was only fitting to introduce the changes that will strengthen the sport at the event.

Italian Mixed Compound Team in action Mr Sanguan KOSAVINTA (THA) Vice President of World Archery ready to present a medal

Qualification round has just started in Recurve W2 British Compound Men’s Team clinches gold medal

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Medallists

Individual recurve men W2 Individual recurve women W2

Hanreuchai NETSIRI (THA)  Zahra NEMATI (IRI) 

Paul BROWNE (GBR)  XIAO Yanhong (CHN) 

TSENG Lung Hui (TPE)  LEE Mi Hyang (KOR) 

Individual recurve men standing Individual recurve women standing

Timur TUCHINOV (RUS)  Brigitte DUBOC (FRA) 

Yuriy KOPIY (UKR)  LIANG Qiurong (CHN) 

Vaclav KOSTAL (CZE)  Milena OLSZEWSKA (POL) 

Brigitte DUBOC (FRA) on the road to the gold medal

Turkey wins Gold Medal in Mixed Team Compound and is getting congratulated by British Team

Danielle BROWN shooting while team mate John STUBBS prepares during gold medal Mixed Team Compound final

Compound W1 Podium Qualification Round Recurve W2

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Individual compound men open Individual compound women open

John STUBBS (GBR)  Burcu DAG (TUR) 

Jere FORSBERG (FIN)  Danielle BROWN (GBR) 

Gianpaolo CANCELLI (ITA)  Mel CLARKE (GBR) 

Individual compound men W1

Jean Pierre ANTONIOS (FIN) 

Jeff FABRY (USA) 

David DRAHONINSKY (CZE) 

Recurve men teams open Recurve women teams open

RUSSIA Oleg SHESTAKOVBato TSYDENDORZHIEVTimur TUCHINOV

CHINA LIANG QiurongMA HuanXIAO Yanhong

FRANCE Armando CABREIRAStéphane GILBERTAlexandre LASVENES

THAILAND Priyaphon KAEOCHAEMCHANWasana KHUTHAWISAPPhannibha SRATHONGMAEW

GREAT BRITAIN Kenny ALLENPhillip BOTTOMLEYPaul BROWNE

KOREA KIM Ran SookLEE Hwa SookLEE Mi Hyang

Zahra NEMATI (IRI) on the way to gold.

Open Compound Women’s podium Italian team celebrating medal

Thai gold medallist and Thai officials W2 recurve men’s podium

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Compound men teams open Compound women teams open

GREAT BRITAIN Richard HENNAHANEFrank MAGUIREJohn STUBBS

RUSSIA Stepanida ARTAKHINOVAMarina LYZHNIKOVAOlga POLEGAEVA

ITALY Matteo BONACINAGianpaolo CANCELLIAlberto SIMONELLI

USA Martha CHAVEZArce HESSAshlee SHEPPARD

SLOVAKIA Peter KASCAKMarian MARECAKMarcel PAVLIK

JAPAN Nako HIRASAWAChieko KAMIYAMiho NAGANO

Recurve mixed teams open Compound mixed teams open

POLAND Milena OLSZEWSKAPiotr SAWICKI

TURKEY Burcu DAGErdoğan AYGAN

UKRAINE Roksolona DZOBA-BALYANYurik KOPIY

GREAT BRITAIN Danielle BROWNJohn STUBBS

IRAN Zahra NEMATIRoham SHAHABIPOUR

ITALY Eleonora SARTIAlberto SIMONELLI

Two happy International Classifiers. Thank you for the nice job!

Podium Recurve Standing Women

Turkey’s DAG wins gold in Compound Women Open

Podium Recurve Standing Men

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Medal Table

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total

 Russia 3 3

 Great Britain 2 3 2 7

 Turkey 2 2

 China 1 2 3

 Finland 1 1 2

 France 1 1 2

 Thailand 1 1 2

 Iran 1 1 2

 Poland 1 1 2

 Ukraine 2 2

 USA 2 2

 Italy 1 2 3

 Czech Republic 2 2

 Korea 2 2

 Japan 1 1

 Slovakia 1 1

Chinese Taipei 1 1

Team Compound Men

Team Recurve Women

Mixed Team Compound

Team Recurve Men

WORLD CUPS◆◆ ‘06◆Archery◆World◆Cup◆Stages:◆Croatia,◆Turkey,◆El◆Salvador,◆China;◆Final:◆Mexico◆◆ ‘07◆Archery◆World◆Cup◆Stages:◆Korea,◆Turkey,◆Italy,◆England;◆Final:◆Dubai◆◆ ‘08◆Archery◆World◆Cup◆Stages:◆Dominican◆Rep.,◆Croatia,◆Turkey,◆France;◆Final:◆Switzerland◆◆ ‘09◆Archery◆World◆Cup◆Stages:◆Dominican◆Rep.,◆Croatia,◆Turkey,◆China;◆Final:◆Denmark◆◆ ‘10◆Archery◆World◆Cup◆Stages:◆Croatia,◆Turkey,◆USA,◆China;◆Final:◆Great◆Britain◆◆ ‘11◆Archery◆World◆Cup◆Stages,◆Croatia,◆Turkey,◆USA,◆China;◆Final:◆Turkey◆◆ ’12◆Indoor◆Archery◆World◆Cup◆Stages:◆Singapore;◆Final:◆USA◆◆ ’12◆Archery◆World◆Cup◆Stages:◆China,◆Turkey,◆USA;◆Final:◆Japan◆◆◆ ’13◆Archery◆World◆Cup◆Stages:◆China,◆Turkey,◆Colombia,◆Poland;◆Final:◆France

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MULTI-SPORT EVENTS◆◆ ‘05◆Summer◆Universiade◆İzmir,◆Turkey◆◆ ‘07◆Black◆Sea◆Games,◆Trabzon,◆Turkey◆◆ ‘10◆Commonwealth◆Games,◆India◆◆ ’10◆PanAmerican◆Archery◆Championships,◆Mexico◆◆ ‘10◆Asian◆Games◆&◆Asian◆Para◆Games,◆China◆◆ ‘11◆PanAm◆Games◆&◆PanAm◆Para◆Games,◆Mexico◆◆ ‘11◆Arab◆Games,◆Qatar◆◆ ’13◆Mediterranean◆Games,◆Turkey◆◆ ’13◆World◆Games,◆Colombia◆◆

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS◆◆ ‘07◆World◆Archery◆Indoor◆Champ.,◆Turkey◆◆ ’07◆World◆Archery◆Outdoor◆Champ.,◆Germany◆◆ ‘08◆Taekwondo◆World◆Champ.,◆Turkey◆◆ ‘08◆World◆Archery◆Field◆Champ.,◆Wales◆◆ ‘08◆World◆Archery◆Youth◆Champ.,◆Turkey◆◆ ‘09◆World◆Archery◆Indoor◆Champ.,◆Poland◆◆ ‘09◆World◆Archery◆Youth◆Champ.,◆USA◆◆ ‘09◆World◆Archery◆Champ.,◆Korea◆◆ ‘10◆World◆Archery◆Field◆Champ.,◆Hungary◆◆ ‘11◆World◆Archery◆&◆World◆Archery◆Para◆Champ.,◆Italy◆◆ ‘11◆World◆Archery◆Youth◆Champ.,◆Poland◆◆ ‘11◆Asian◆Archery◆Champ.,◆I.R.◆Iran◆◆ ’13◆World◆Archery◆Champ.,◆Turkey◆◆ ’13◆World◆Archery◆Youth◆Champ.,◆China◆◆ ’13◆World◆Archery◆Para◆Champ.,◆Thailand◆◆ ’12◆World◆Archery◆Indoor◆Champ.,◆USA

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The Explorer in Bhutan: In the land of the sleeping giant

By Marcos Lorenzo lthough  the  name  ‘Kingdom  of  the  Thunder Dragon’  inspires  a  more  apocalyptic  image, 

Bhutan’s  serene atmosphere  surrounds  you  from the moment you land in Paro, its only international airport. The stunning view of  the Paro Dzong  (for-tress) does add to a palpable cheeriness in the air, part of a concept known  in  the country as Gross National  Happiness.  The  Bhutanese  people  use this  concept  to  measure  and  orientate  their  gov-ernance, religion, culture and social  lives. And be-cause  of  the  ideal,  the King  and  royal  family  are highly  respected  and  integrated  into  the  lives  of Bhutan’s inhabitants.

But until it was admitted as a full United Nations member  in  1971,  the  country  was  almost  cut  off from the outside world. One year later, in 1972, six-teen-year-old Jigme Singye ascended to the throne after the death of his father and started significant political and social reform, and opened his country to tourism. Although it seems unbelievable to most of  the Western world,  television and  internet were not introduced into Bhutan until 1999! In 2006, King Jigme Singye abdicated in favour of his eldest son, Jigme  Khesar  Namgyel.  The  incumbent  King  was crowned in November 2008, less than one year after Bhutan’s first parliamentary elections.

Archery has been entwined with the culture and habits of the Bhutanese people for centuries. Young children practise the traditional national game from the age of four or five years old, in the picturesque Himalayan nation’s ancestrally rich countryside and villages.

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Team at the NATC.The selected members of the BAF together with the Bhutan National

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The country has changed  radically over  the  last  twenty years. There are some good  roads and new hospitals, health coverage and many new schools. But despite this profound modernisation, Bhutan remains a developing country. Its people still live a relatively simple existence.

Bhutan  does  have  excellent  international  diplomatic  and  eco-nomic relations with India–its major trade partner–and Bangladesh, and American citizens make up the majority of its visiting tourists. The nation’s main source of income is hydraulic energy.

The Bhutan Olympic Committee as only sport authoritySeven people work at the Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC) head-quarters  at  Changlingmethang  National  Stadium.  The  organisa-tion has been headed by  its president HRH Prince Jigyel Ugyen WANGCHUK since 2009 and  its secretary general  is Mr Sonam Karma TSHERING.

Founded  in  1983  to  ensure  the  nation’s  participation  in  the 1984  Olympic  Games,  the  organisation  has  supported  Bhutan’s archery team in attending every Olympics since. At London 2012, Bhutan sent athletes to a second sport for the first time in its his-tory: shooting. Each of  the 15 affiliated Bhutanese sports federa-tions receive all their funding from the Bhutan Olympic Committee. The kingdom has no ministry of sports and therefore the budget for  sports  is  limited, as  it  has other priorities  in education,  infra-structure and social matters, and the private sector is not an active supporter  of  sports  organisations. “It  is  not  enough,” Mr TSHER-ING says. “We are the only organisation that looks after grassroots sports development, but we have very limited resources and at the end we are a poor country.”

The  funding  allocated  to  each  federation  is  not  fixed  or  bud-geted,  instead  depending  on  how  much  money  each  federation applies for. As they propose activities and development plans, the national Olympic committee does its best to fulfil their funding re-

An archer at the Coronation National Archery Tournament A target at 145m

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quirements. The Bhutan Archery Federation has done well in this system. “The  budget  for  archery  has  not  increased  dramatically, but  for  the  last  three years we have been able  to give  the sport what they have requested with the aim of reaching an elite level,” states Mr TSHERING.

Opening  the  government’s  eyes  to  the  benefits  of  sports  for young people seems  to have been  this BOC management  team’s greatest achievement to date. The Bhutanese people do not have a word for ‘sport’ in their language, instead they use ‘game’. Athletes in Bhutan do not practice, instead they play–and there is not much understanding of how sport can benefit peoples’ lives. Around three years ago, though, the government realised that an increased invest-ment in sport meant less had to be spent on health and youth. Impor-tant in a country where 60% of the population is under 29 years old!

“People  love sport  in Bhutan but  they do not have enough op-portunity,” explains Mr TSHERING. “At 5pm every day the National Stadium  is  packed with  people  willing  to  enjoy  sport. There  are even  football  teams  ready  to  pay  USD100  for  a  night  session... which  is a  lot of money! We received  lots of support  from World Archery for the 2012 Olympic Games in terms of solidarity places for our athletes. But we know Bhutan cannot have a quota place every time, as the number of nations deserving of them is rising.”

“Since  1984,  Bhutan  has  not  done  as  well  as  it  should  have in archery. We started well, improved quickly and then plateaued. While  countries  around  us  were  developing  we  stagnated–but things are changing, and it is time for us to fly with our own wings. If we do have  a  chance  to win Olympic medals,  it  is  in  archery. Archery is in our genes and in our blood, and the transition from traditional to Olympic archery is not impossible.”

Bhutan Archery FederationThe Bhutan Archery  Federation  (BFA) was  founded  in 1980 and has been a World Archery Member Association since 1983. Presi-dent Mr Ugyen RIZIN and Secretary General Mr Tsewang RICHEN have been in post for three years, developing talent identification procedures and refreshing  the  federation’s structures, objectives and plans. Mr RINZIN is also a well-known businessman in Bhutan, active in industries including insurance, real estate and hospitality, and maintains close contact with the Bhutanese royal family.

“The biggest challenge for the national federation is integrating archery into schools,” explains Mr RINZIN. “Basketball and football are very popular with kids. Schools only need a playground and a few balls for football, but for archery they need to buy bows, arrows, targets… and the cost is much higher.”

“Children do not get into archery as they did in the past, mainly because  they  spend most  of  their  time at  school. And  it  is  only recently that so many have been built all over the country.” In one of  the  most  traditional  nations  in  the  world,  the  archery  federa-tion president asks a question that probably sounds quite familiar: 

“Just how do we get archery into schools? ”Since  the  introduction  of  television,  Bhutan’s  inhabitants  are 

free to watch major football or other live sports events and, since there is not much in the way of a Bhutanese media, archery infor-mation  is  difficult  to  spread.  Nevertheless,  when  the  Bhutan Ar-chery Federation requests press attention they “can count on their cooperation,” reassures Mr RINZIN.

Tashi in action

a student at the Painting School

Traditional dance and songs

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Traditional archeryBhutan’s national ‘game’ is played with traditional bamboo bows and arrows that are still handmade in almost every town and vil-lage in the country. Two shops in Thimphu now sell modern com-pound bows, which were  introduced around 15 to 20 years ago and are permitted in national tournaments. But for classic Bhuta-nese compromises, bamboo is compulsory!

The  Coronation  National  Archery  Tournament–a  traditional competition celebrating the current King’s accession–ran from 29 September  to 2 November  at  the  national  archery  stadium. Dur-ing a traditional Bhutanese archery tournament, two teams of 11 archers stand on shooting lines 145 metres apart to shoot at tar-gets next to the opposing team. The participants all wear Bhutan’s national dress, the gho: a heavy, knee-length robe, tied with a belt and folded to form a pocket in front of the stomach.

Archers take turns to shoot two arrows per end, scoring up to three points for hitting the central area on the target. The first team to  reach 25 points wins,  but matches can  take days...  and  that just depends on the players’ performances and aptitude at aiming! Teams sing songs, usually about love and karma, when one of their archers hits the target, and dance or taunt to distract members of their  opposition. And  participants  are  encouraged  to  enjoy  alco-holic drinks as the competition progresses, resulting in some pretty jovial situations by the time the tournament ends.

More  than 1,000 archers attend Bhutan’s national champion-ship events around the country from June until September every year. Teams of six archers shoot two arrows each a set number of 

times–with 15 rounds making up the final match at the national stadium. The most peculiar part, though: all the prizes are house-hold  electrical  goods!  HRH  Prince  Jigyel  Ugyen’s  team  finished second in this year’s championships.

National Archery Training CentreThimphu’s  National Archery Training  Centre  (NATC)  was  built  to develop  the  nation’s  modern  archery  athletes.  Since  2009,  and thanks  to  funding  from  the BOC,  the  facility  has housed  the na-tional federation’s offices, a large meeting room, kitchen, bedroom and gym. There are plans to improve the centre by growing a new, flat grass field with watering system, adding lighting and construct-ing a hostel behind the main building. These new facilities would help  fulfil Bhutan’s  international archery development plans–and are a far cry away from the days when the nation’s athletes had to practise alone on any ground they could find in Thimphu.

The shooting  line will host up  to 15  targets once  the  improve-ments to the field are completed, and work is already well underway, while the archery hostel has been approved by the BOC and is ex-pected to be finalised by 2017. Working towards an elite residential archery programme, Mr RINCHEN wants “the hostel to become an academy, teaching other school subjects as well as archery.”

Getting to Thimphu is quite easy, but the same cannot be said for the rest of Bhutan as not every settlement is accessible by modern road. The BAF intends to build a second training centre in the east-ern town of Trashigang, to provide better coverage of the nation’s populace when quickly identifying and selecting young talents.

Landscape of a rice field

Practice with the Ugyen Academy

Students of the Ugyen Academy

The office of the BAF at the NATC

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This selection process began back in December 2012, when a steering committee including the federation’s president, secretary general and members of the Olympic committee took six months to evaluate 1,100 young archers. Three girls and five boys were selected to train at the NATC, with the girls living on site and the boys staying nearby.

One of those eight squad members is Olympic athlete and Bhu-tan’s  flag  bearer  Sherab  ZAM,  who  received  a  universality  spot for London 2012. Mr RINZIN would love his country’s athletes to win  full  places  for  future  Games  on  the  field  of  play. The  three recurve women and one man who represented the nation at the 2013 World Championships in Belek Antalya have taken the first steps to doing just that.

National squad archers train six days a week, Monday to Satur-day, practising different activities: free shooting, Olympic shooting, running and physical exercise. Their coaches are Choden TSHER-ING, Dolma DORJI and Tashi TSHERING–who is also in charge of administration  for  the  BAF–and  the  long  term  intention  is  that Sherab ZAM becomes a coach, too.

Mr RINZIN estimates that Bhutan “needs at least eight years to put the structures in place and build a team that is competitive at major international tournaments like the Olympics.”

Youth and educationSeveral  academies are  looking  to become archery  centres,  help with talent selection and generate competition archers for the na-tional team. The Ugyen Academy in Phunaka, especially, would like 

its  students  to  compete  with  other  schools  and  academies–but there are not enough coaches  in Bhutan  to begin  the project at the moment.

The  Youth  Development  Fund  has  a  centre  in  Thimphu  that delivers development projects  aimed at  young people. Their  pro-grammes complement normal school activities, and the BAF would like archery to be included. The Thimphu centre’s facilities include classrooms,  a  library,  restaurant  and  sports  field,  as  well  as  an original countryside house preserving traditional Bhutanese life for younger generations.

While it is unlikely that Bhutan’s national Painting School will introduce archery as an activity, it is still a fascinating institution. Students learn and practise painting, sculpture, embroidery, pot-tery and woodcraft. When their three-year education is finished, the  government  helps  many  open  their  own  handicraft  shops, while the best are selected for government jobs or sent abroad–mainly to Nepal and India–to teach people about Bhutanese and Buddhist art. It is a good example of the nation’s respect for its own heritage.

Looking to the futureBhutan holds enormous potential as an archery nation. It is already rich in archery culture and knowledge and although the transition from traditional to international archery is difficult, change driven by the BAF is starting to come.

Using  its  strong  international  relationships,  mainly  with  India, Bhutan  should  look  to  form exchange programmes  and  training 

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Kingdom of Bhutan

Area: 38,394 km² Government: Constitutional monarchy

Population: 745,000 Head of State: King Jigme Khesar Namgyel

Capital and largest city: Thimphu (80,000)  Currency: Bhutanese Ngultrum

Formation: early 17th century Archers: about 100,000

scape. But with the improvements to Bhutan’s elite programme, full Tokyo 2020 qualification is within the nation’s best archers’ grasp. The NATC is taking shape, identifying better athletes and aiming to fly  the Thunder Dragon flag at World Archery events more regularly.

Maybe, soon, this sleeping giant will realise the enormous archery potential it hides within its people and traditional Himalayan soul.

camps with  its successful sporting neighbour  India. Soon, the Hi-malayan nation might host international events in its region, then on a continental scale–and in the future we might just see world events pay Bhutan a visit.

Coaches  and  coach  structures  under  the  supervision  of World Archery are mandatory and needed to spread and evolve modern  archery  techniques  throughout  the  traditional  land-

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Exciting changes for Indoor World Cup; Marrakesh, Singapore, Telford and Las Vegas host top indoor archers

By Ludivine Maitre Wicki he  Indoor  World  Cup  has  expanded  for  the 2013/14 season. Previously,  three stages have 

been held in Asia, Europe and the Americas, but this year World Archery  has  added  a  fourth:  in Africa! Joining the programme to launch the indoor season, the  Marrakesh  tournament  marks  the  first  time  a World Cup takes place in the African continent.

There will be a second new host, as Nimes will not hold  the European  leg of  the  tour  in  its  fourth season. The French town is busy preparing for the Indoor World Championships from 25 February to 2 March  2014  so  replacing  the  popular  tournament on  the  international  calendar  this  year  is  Telford, Great Britain.

For  the  four  competition  categories  -  recurve and compound men and women - the format stays mostly the same across the four legs. Archers shoot 

60  arrows  at  18  metres  for  qualification  before head-to-head eliminations and finals using the set system. The top 16 finishers at each stage receive Indoor World Cup ranking points.

The 16 archers who have accumulated the most points in each category after the fourth stage qualify for the Indoor World Cup Final. Athletes are ranked by  their  top  three  results  from  the  four  legs,  and must have competed in at least two stages including Las Vegas to be eligible. This season’s finalists will compete for Indoor World Cup Champion titles in the evening of Saturday 8 February 2014 in Las Vegas.

Brady ELLISON (USA) and JEON Sung Eun (KOR) won  the  recurve  categories  at  last  year’s  Indoor World  Cup  Final.  In  the  compound  competition, Braden  GELLENTHIEN  (USA)  and  Andrea  GALES (GBR) enter this season as defending champions.

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Christine HARRELSON (USA), Ghufran Abdluhahhab Abed AL KHARZAJI (IRQ) Mike SCHLOESSER (NED)

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Stage 1 – MarrakeshThe 2013/14 season began on 16/17 November in Marrakesh. Not only was it the first competition on this year’s programme, but  it marked the first time a World Cup event had been held in the Afri-can continent. The Moroccan city had been successfully organising its own International Indoor Archery Tournament since 2010.

After two days of tight competition, many archers found them-selves in one-arrow shoot-offs to decide the finals! European ath-letes Naomi FOLKARD (GBR) and Rick VAN DER VEN (NED) won the 

recurve  categories,  and  USA  archers  Braden  GELLENTHIEN  and Crystal GAUVIN took the compound top spots. They now lead the Indoor World Cup rankings, after points were awarded to the top 16 finishers in each division in Marrakesh.

Recurve WomenNumber  one  ranked  recurve  woman  Tatiana  SEGINA  did  not drop a set until the semi-finals. Her opponent Melina TOUSSAINT (FRA)  managed  to  wrestle  away  two  set  points,  but  it  was  no-

Archers from Marrakesh with Meriam EL MAHIRI, Marrakesh Organizing Committee President

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where near enough to halt the relentless 21-year-old Russian’s path to the final.

Challenging her for gold: second seed Naomi FOLKARD of Great Britain.  The  current  World  Games  Field  Champion’s  journey  in-cluded a straight-set dismissal of Moroccan quarter-final opponent Fatine OUADOUDI, and beating Anna BOTTO (ITA) in the semis, 7-3.

SEGINA leaked three arrows into the 8 and it made the differ-ence in her battle with FOLKARD. The Brit only needed a draw in the fifth set: and that is exactly what she got, along with a 6-4 win 

and  gold.  BOTTO  fared  better  in  her  last  match,  beating TOUS-SAINT to bronze, 7-1.

Recurve MenRick VAN DER VEN cruised through the recurve men’s eliminations, winning each of his matches convincingly. In the semis he faced Olivier DURAND, who had upset his French countryman Thomas FAUCHERON  in  the  1/8  round. VAN  DER VEN  gave  DURAND  no room to manoeuvre and took the match in straight sets.

Braden GELLENTHIEN (USA)

Recurve Woman Podium in Marrakesh Braden GELLENTHIEN (USA) and Pierre Julien DELOCHE (FRA)

Compound Women podium in Marrakesh Compound Men podium in Marrakesh

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Matteo FISSORE (ITA) sunk hopes of a French archer  topping the podium when he knocked out Jean-Charles VALLADONT in the other semi-final. The gruelling match was tied after five sets and FISSORE shot better in the one-arrow shoot-off.

FISSORE’s gold medal match against VAN DER VEN would prove no easier. Despite shooting at least two 10s each set, the Italian archer quickly found himself on the losing end of a 6-2 score line. VALLDONT took the bronze after a 7-1 win over DURAND.

Compound WomenAfter  a  disappointing  qualifying  round, Pascale  LEBECQUE  (FRA) made it  into the last four of the compound women’s competition. Her semi-final opponent, Inge VAN CASPEL (NED), had been shoot-ing strong all weekend. LEBECQUE could not hold off  the Dutch archer and settled for defeat, 4-6.

Crystal GAUVIN (USA) and Naomi JONES (GBR) took their semi-final  to  a  tie-breaker,  which  GAUVIN  won.  JONES  was  able  to bounce back in the bronze by convincingly beating LEBECQUE, 6-2.

GAUVIN then found herself in another one-arrow shoot-off. She won the third set of the final and took a 4-2 lead before resilient VAN  CASPEL  battled  back  and  drew  the  match  5-5  at  the  end 

of  regulation  scoring. Both  archers  shot  10s,  but GAUVIN’s was closer: gold for the American.

Compound MenWorld-ranked number one compound man Pierre-Julien DELOCHE (FRA)  and  defending  Indoor  World  Cup  Champion  Braden  GEL-LENTHIEN  tied  their  semi-final  5-5  after  regulation  scoring,  and needed a one-arrow shoot-off to settle the match. But both men shot dead centre!

It was impossible to pick a winner, so the judge reset their targets,  the  captivated  crowd  got  even  more  excited  and  the pair tried again - second time around, GELLENTHIEN was better. He  advanced  to  the  final  against  his  teammate  Bridger  DEA-TON, who beat world  record holder Peter ELZINGA  (NED) 6-4 in semi-finals.

The value of experience was obvious in the last set of the US final. GELLENTHIEN won it 29 to 27, forcing a 5-all tie (for the third time today) on set points and a shoot-off for the gold medal. His one arrow was not dead centre, but it was enough: GELLENTHIEN won with a better 9. ELZINGA  took bronze by dropping  just  two arrows out of the 10, compared to DELOCHE’s three!

Medallists

Recurve Women Recurve Men

Naomi FOLKARD (GBR) Rick VAN DER VEN (NED

Tatiana SEGINA (RUS) Matteo FISSORE (ITA)

Anna BOTO (ITA) Jean-Charles VALLADONT (FRA)

Compound Women Compound Men

Crystal GAUVIN (USA) Braden GELLENTHIEN (USA)

Inge VAN CASPEL (NED) Bridger DEATON (USA)

Naomi JONES (GBR) Peter ELZINGA (NED)

Naomi FOLKARD (GBR) Matteo FISSORE (ITA)

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Stage 2 – SingaporeFor  the  third  year  in  a  row,  Singapore  hosted  the  Indoor World Cup’s Asian leg. The tournament previously started the indoor sea-son, but the introduction of Marrakesh in mid-November made it the second stage of the 2013/14 tour. A record number of athletes from  around  the  globe  headed  to  Singapore  on  8/9  December 2013 for the city-state’s only annual open international individual archery tournament.

In a repeat of the 2013 Singapore finals, Reo WILDE beat his young brother Logan WILDE (USA) to compound men’s gold. Erika JONES  (USA)  stunned Albina  LOGINOVA  (RUS),  Korea  swept  the recurve  women’s  podium  and  Jean-Charles  VALLADONT  (FRA) claimed  his  second  title  in  a  row  at  the Asian  leg  of  the  Indoor Archery World Cup.

Recurve WomenAs  expected,  Korean  athletes  dominated  the  recurve  women’s competition.  They  contested  both  the  bronze  and  gold  medal matches,  ending  the  tournament  with  an  unchallenged  clean sweep of the podium.

 JEON Sung Eun beat KIM Min Jong in straight sets to take the gold medal. In the bronze match, KIM Yu Mi - who had defeated Deepika KUMARI of India earlier in the tournament - had little dif-ficulty  relegating CHANG Hye Jin  to  the spectator stands  for  the medal ceremonies. KIM took the medal, 6-2.

Recurve MenThe recurve men’s eliminations were not short of surprises. United States archer Brady ELLISON cruised through his 1/8 match, then faced Tarundeep RAI from India. On something of a roll, RAI only let 

ELLISON have two set points on the way to knocking the decorated international athlete out of the tournament.

Last year’s bronze medallist Denis GANKIN (KAZ) was RAI’s next opponent. He did not seem to pose much of a threat, and RAI soon found himself preparing for a gold medal match against defending Singapore champion Jean-Charles VALLADONT.

Frenchman VALLADONT disposed of Jake KAMINSKI (USA) first. The pair met many times in 2013 with the outcome repeatedly one-sided: VALLADONT seems to have the American archer’s number. He then beat Atanu DAS in the semi-finals, who had just knocked out his more experienced Indian teammate Jayanta TALUKDAR, by six set points to four, in their quarter-final match-up.

 RAI’s hot streak came to a short, sharp end against VALLDONT. The French archer surrendered just two set points on his way to a second consecutive gold  in Singapore. RAI  took silver, and his Indian teammate DAS claimed bronze, beating GANKIN seven set points to one.

Compound WomenAlbina LOGINOVA (RUS) and Erika JONES (USA) met  in a familiar compound women’s final! To get there, two-time world champion LOGINOVA beat Linda OCHOA from Mexico, who had qualified first and was having a very strong tournament. OCHOA faltered next to her experienced Russian opponent, settling for defeat, 7-3.

 JONES faced her friend and fellow Team USA member Christie COLIN in the semi-finals. COLIN managed to claim two set points but  that was not  enough  to  keep JONES  from advancing  to  the gold medal match.

 Both United States archers found their competitive groove in the finals. COLIN gave OCHOA little room: the Mexican athlete 

Oddmund TJENTLAND (NOR), Morgan LUNDIN (SWE), Jitt KAENTHONGLANG (THA) Reo WILDE (USA)

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drew one set but lost the rest, and COLIN claimed bronze 7-1. In  the  gold  final,  LOGINOVA was  completely  shut  out.  JONES won  three  quick  sets  to  start  and  finish  the match,  and  take gold in Singapore.

Compound MenAfter  a  relatively  easy  journey  through  the  1/8  elimination,  num-ber one compound men’s seed Mike SCHLOESSER (NED) came up against Logan WILDE. The American archer had just defeated Mor-gan LUNDIN (SWE) in a one-arrow shoot-off that needed measuring with callipers to find out whose arrow was closest to the middle!

 The quarter-final match could have gone either way, as both archers  fought hard until  the end. WILDE prevailed,  though, six set points to four. That put him into the semis, and into a match 

against  Norway’s  Oddmund  TJENTLAND  -  which  ended  in  an-other single-arrow shoot-off. Yet again, WILDE’s arrow was closer, and he won himself a spot in the gold medal final. His opponent there: another WILDE! 

Reo, Logan’s older brother, won  the Singapore event  in 2011 and 2012 - and had the chance at a third consecutive title. This year, he beat Julio FIERRO (MEX) 6-2 and fellow countryman Steve ANDERSON 6-4 on his route to the final.

In  the gold medal match,  the WILDE brothers put on a show. Trading blows until the fifth and final deciding set, it was Reo who edged ahead and then put the contest on ice. Six set points, to his brother’s four - and another Singapore tournament gold medal in the bag. ANDERSON made it a USA 1-2-3 by beating TJENTLAND 6-2 in the bronze match.

Linda OCHOA (MEX), Brenda MERINO (MEX) Atanu DAS (IND)

Recurve Men Podium Recurve Women Podium Compound Men Podium Compound Women Podium

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Medallists

Recurve Women Recurve Men

JEON Sung Eun (KOR) Jean-Charles VALLADONT (FRA)

KIM Min Jong (KOR) Tarundeep RAI (IND)

KIM Yu Mi (KOR) Atanu DAS (IND)

Compound Women Compound Men

Erika JONES (USA) Reo WILDE (USA)

Albina LOGINOVA (RUS) Logan WILDE (USA)

Christie COLIN (USA) Steve ANDERSON (USA)

Brady ELLISON (USA), Erika JONES (USA) Erika JONES (USA)

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Stage 3 – Telford

With Nimes concentrating on the 2014 Indoor World Champi-onships, Telford will host the European leg of the Indoor World Cup  for  the 2013/14 season. Taking  its  inspiration  from  the French  town’s  long-running Tournoi Européen,  the  three-day European Archery Festival will follow a very similar format.

Around 1,000 archers are expected to compete at the Tel-ford International Centre from 24 to 26 January 2014. Archers will shoot qualification on either Friday 24 or Saturday 25 Jan-uary before the top 32 in each category advance to the elimi-nations,  which  start  on  Saturday  evening. The  competition’s finals will take place in a spectator arena and be broadcast live online on Sunday 26 January.

Stage 4 and Final – Las Vegas

The first two days of the Vegas Shoot make up the fourth and final  stage  of  the World  Indoor  Cup  -  the  tournament  is  ex-pected to attract over 2,000 competitors in 2014.

Ranking points are awarded after the 60-arrow qualification round in Las Vegas. Only the top 16 archers in each category, ranked after the four stages, qualify for the head-to-head finals, which decide the year’s four Indoor World Cup Champions.

Some of the world’s best archers will take to the arena floor in  the  South  Point  Hotel  and  Casino  on  7/8  February  2014, ready to  treat  fans to an exciting conclusion to  the 2013/14 Indoor World Cup season.

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Outdoor World Ranking

Recurve MenRank Progress Athlete Continent Code Country Points1   <–>  OH Jin Hyek   Asia  KOR  Korea  345.000 2   <–>  LEE Seungyun   Asia  KOR  Korea  277.750 3   <–>  DAI Xiaoxiang   Asia  CHN  P.R. China  224.000 4   <–>  IM Dong Hyun   Asia  KOR  Korea  193.750 5   <–>  JIN Jae Wang   Asia  KOR  Korea  189.000 6   <+1 >  FURUKAWA Takaharu   Asia  JPN  Japan  175.500 7   <-1 >  VAN DER VEN Rick   Europe  NED  Netherlands  173.750 8   <–>  ELLISON Brady   America  USA  USA  171.000Recurve WomenRank Progress Athlete Continent Code Country Points1   <–>  YUN Ok Hee   Asia  KOR  Korea  326.500 2   <–>  KI Bo Bae   Asia  KOR  Korea  269.500 3   <–>  KUMARI Deepika   Asia  IND  India  202.725 4   <–>  STEPANOVA Inna   Europe  RUS  Russia  198.250 5   <+3 >  JOO Hyun Jung   Asia  KOR  Korea  198.000 6   <-1 >  ROMAN Aida   America  MEX  Mexico  189.500 7   <-1 >  XU Jing   Asia  CHN  P.R. China  179.950 8   <-1 >  WINTER Karina   Europe  GER  Germany  174.750Compound MenRank Progress Athlete Continent Code Country Points1   <–>  DELOCHE Pierre Julien   Europe  FRA  France  288.350 2   <–>  WILDE Reo   America  USA  USA  282.700 3   <–>  GELLENTHIEN Braden   America  USA  USA  248.850 4   <–>  DAMSBO Martin   Europe  DEN  Denmark  230.450 5   <–>  PAGNI Sergio   Europe  ITA  Italy  194.500 6   <–>  LAURSEN Patrick   Europe  DEN  Denmark  172.250 7   <–>  GENET Dominique   Europe  FRA  France  161.000 8   <–>  SCHLOESSER Mike   Europe  NED  Netherlands  159.100Compound WomenRank Progress Athlete Continent Code Country Points1   <–>  JONES Erika   America  USA  USA  306.550 2   <–>  BERGER Kristina   Europe  GER  Germany  263.800 3   <–>  LOPEZ Sara   America  COL  Colombia  240.100 4   <–>  LOGINOVA Albina   Europe  RUS  Russia  220.700 5   <–>  SEOK Ji Hyun   Asia  KOR  Korea  214.200 6   <–>  BUDEN Ivana   Europe  CRO  Croatia  194.000 7   <–>  USQUIANO Alejandra   America  COL  Colombia  193.475 8   <–>  SOEMOD Camilla   Europe  DEN  Denmark  183.675

as of 20 November 2013

YUN Ok Hee (KOR)

Pierre Julien DELOCHE (FDA)

Jones ERIKA (USA)

OH Jin Hyek (KOR)

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Recurve Men W2Position Archer Continent Code Country Points

  1  TSENG Lung Hui  Asia  TPE  Chinese Taipei  166.125

  2  SANAWI Hasihin  Asia  MAS  Malaysia  145.800

  3  NETSIRI Hanreuchai  Asia  THA  Thailand  144.400

  4  BROWNE Paul  Europe  GBR  Great Britain  132.200

  5  SZARSZEWSKI Maik  Europe  GER  Germany  101.475

  6  CHOPYK Taras  Europe  UKR  Ukraine  91.800

  7  CHENG Changjie  Asia  CHN  P.R. China  91.600

  8  DE PELLEGRIN Oscar  Europe  ITA  Italy  91.200

Recurve Men StandingPosition Archer Continent Code Country Points

  1  TUCHINOV Timur  Europe  RUS  Russia  202.900

  2  KOPIY Yuriy  Europe  UKR  Ukraine  161.800

  3  LASVENES Alexandre  Europe  FRA  France   157.000

  4  SHESTAKOV Oleg  Europe  RUS  Russia  147.300

  5  OYUN Mikhail  Europe  RUS  Russia  120.450

  6  KOSTAL Vaclav  Europe  CZE  Czech Republic  112.000

  7  KORKMAZ Zafer  Europe  TUR  Turkey  98.750

  8  POLAT Oguzhan  Europe  TUR  Turkey  91.750

Compound Men W1Position Archer Continent Code Country Points

  1  DRAHONINSKY David  Europe  CZE  Czech Republic  198.000

  2  MURPHY Norbert  America  CAN  Canada  177.000

  3  ANTONIOS Jean Pierre  Europe  FIN  Finland  173.000

  4  FABRY Jeff  America  USA  USA  165.000

  5  CAVANAGH John  Europe  GBR  Great Britain  120.500

  6  KINIK Peter  Europe  SVK  Slovakia  111.500

  7  AZZOLINI Fabio  Europe  ITA  Italy  102.500

  8  KINNUNEN Osmo  Europe  FIN  Finland  99.000

Timur TUCHINOV (RUS)

David DRAHONINSKY (CZE)

Lung Hui TSENG (TPE)

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Compound Men OpenPosition Archer Continent Code Country Points

  1  FORSBERG Jere  Europe  FIN  Finland  200.000

  2  STUBBS John  Europe  GBR  Great Britain  139.900

  2  STUTZMAN Matthew Lee  America  USA  USA  138.000

  4  HANCI Dogan  Europe  TUR  Turkey  114.000

  5  EVANS Kevin  America  CAN  Canada  102.500

  6  KASCAK Peter  Europe  SVK  Slovakia  98.000

  6  CANCELLI Giampaolo  Europe  ITA  Italy  98.000

  7  HORNER Philippe  Europe  FRA  France  96.000

Recurve Women W2Position Archer Continent Code Country Points

  1  NEMATI Zahra  Asia  IRI  I.R. Iran  207.000

  2  XIAO Yanhong  Asia  CHN  P.R. China  133.000

  3  VOLYNETS Iryna  Europe  UKR  Ukraine  121.900

  4  KALAY Ozlem   Europe  TUR  Turkey  120.450

  5  DZOBA-BALYAN Roksolana  Europe  UKR  Ukraine  116.000

  6  MIJNO Elisabetta  Europe  ITA  Italy  113.000

  7  BAYAR Hatice  Europe  TUR  Turkey  92.475

  8  SIDKOVA Marketa  Europe  CZE  Czech Republic  92.200

Recurve Women StandingPosition Archer Continent Code Country Points

  1  OLSZEWSKA Milena  Europe  POL  Poland  181.250

  2  DUBOC Brigitte  Europe  FRA  France  155.750

  3  BYAMBASUREN Javzmaa  Asia  MGL  Mongolia  127.000

  4  BATOROVA Irina  Europe  RUS  Russia  123.000

  5  KHUTHAWISAP Wasana  Asia  THA  Thailand  107.600

  6  LEE Hwa Sook  Asia  KOR  Korea  103.000

  7  COMTE Magali  Europe  SUI  Switzerland  101.000

  8  KIM Ran Sook  Asia  KOR  Korea  98.000

Compound Women OpenPosition Archer Continent Code Country Points

  1  BROWN Danielle  Europe  GBR  Great Britain  182.000

  2  ARTAKHINOVA Stepanida  Europe  RUS  Russia  152.000

  3  CLARKE Mel  Europe  GBR  Great Britain  138.000

  4  LYZHNIKOVA Marina  Europe  RUS  Russia  111.000

  5  VAN NEST Karen  America  CAN  Canada  107.500

  6  DAG Burcu  Europe  TUR  Turkey  100.000

  7  REPPE Zandra  Europe  SWE  Sweden  99.750

  8  SU Gulbin  Europe  TUR  Turkey  96.000

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Milena OLSZEWSKA (POL)

Danielle BROWN (GBR)

Jere FORSBERG (FIN)

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GUA GuatemalaGUI GuineaHAI HaitiHKG Hong Kong, ChinaHON HondurasHUN HungaryINA IndonesiaIND IndiaIRI Islamic Republic of IranIRL IrelandIRQ IraqISL IcelandISR IsraelISV Virgin IslandsITA ItalyJPN JapanKAZ KazakhstanKEN KenyaKGZ KyrgyzstanKIR KiribatiKOR KoreaKOS KosovoKSA Saudi ArabiaKUW KuwaitLAO Lao People’s Democratic RepublicLAT LatviaLBA Libyan Arab JamahiriyaLIB LebanonLIE LiechtensteinLTU LithuaniaLUX LuxembourgMAC MacauMAR MoroccoMAS MalaysiaMAWMalawiMDA Republic of MoldovaMEX MexicoMGL MongoliaMKD F.Y.R.O. MacedoniaMLT MaltaMNE Republic of MontenegroMON MonacoMRI MauritiusMYA MyanmarNAM NamibiaNCA NicaraguaNED NetherlandsNEP NepalNFI Norfolk IslandsNGR NigeriaNIG NigerNOR Norway

NZL New Zealand

PAK Pakistan

PAN Panama

PAR Paraguay

PER Peru

PHI Philippines

PLW Palau

PNG Papua New Guinea

POL Poland

POR Portugal

PRK Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

PUR Puerto Rico

QAT Qatar

ROU Romania

RSA South Africa

RUS Russian Federation

RWA Rwanda

SAM Samoa

SEN Senegal

SIN Singapore

SLE Sierra Leone

SLO   Slovenia

SMR San Marino

SOM Somalia

SRB Serbia

SRI Sri Lanka

SUD Sudan

SUI Switzerland

SUR Suriname

SVK Slovakia

SWE Sweden

TGA Tonga

THA Thailand

TJK Tajikistan

TOG Togo

TPE Chinese Taipei

TRI Trinidad and Tobago

TUN Tunisia

TUR Turkey

UGA Uganda

UKR Ukraine

URU Uruguay

USA United States of America

UZB Uzbekistan

VAN Vanuatu

VEN   Venezuela

VIE Vietnam

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시그니처_좌우조합Horizontal Signature

시그니처는 심볼마크와 로고타입을 최적의 비례로 조합한 것으로 적용 매체의 특성에 따라 좌우조합 또는 상하조합 등

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FIVICS Archery*(formerly “Soma Archery”)Korea

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Easton Technical Products Inc.USA

HoytUSA

Samick Sports Co. LtdKorea

Win & Win Archery Co.Korea

Shibuya Archery(a division of Yasui & Co.)Japan

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Archery Life Co.Korea

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시그니처_좌우조합Horizontal Signature

시그니처는 심볼마크와 로고타입을 최적의 비례로 조합한 것으로 적용 매체의 특성에 따라 좌우조합 또는 상하조합 등

적절한 시그니처 타입을 선택·사용한다.

시그니처의 사용은 본 매뉴얼 CD-Rom에 수록된 원고용 파일을 출력하여 사용하는 것을 원칙으로 한다

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기본형

FIVICS Archery*(formerly “Soma Archery”)Korea

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Maple Leaf Press Inc.*USA

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PetronUnited Kingdom

Samick Sports Co. LtdKorea

Shibuya Archery(a division of Yasui & Co.)Japan

Win & Win Archery Co.Korea

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