Tag: archery
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ALVAREZ and TIMOFEEVA burst on World Cup
World Archery News, June 25, 2012: At just 21 years old, Luis ALVAREZ (MEX) was impressive in the final of the Ogden World Cup! His victory offered him a trip to the World Cup Final in Tokyo! TIMOFEEVA (RUS) did even better! At 19 years old, she won the individual and team categories at the…
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Final Olympic Individual Qualifications Ogden
World Archery News, June 25, 2012: Ogden, On Friday, the last individual Olympic qualifications took place for the countries that didn’t have a place (per gender). There was 7 spots for the men available and 8 for the women. They were contested by 80 men (from 35 countries) and 50 women (from 25 countries). This…
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Final Olympic Team Qualifications
June 25, 2012: Here are the last teams who qualified. On the men’s side India, Japan and Chinese Taipei. On the women’s side the USA, Mexico and Japan! Here is their way to London! On Friday, the last individual qualifications will take place. This Thursday afternoon was the very last chance to qualify a full…
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Reo WILDE made in history in World Cup
World Archery News, June 25, 2012: Reo WILDE (USA) made in history in Ogden. He not only won the three stages of the Archery World Cup 2012. He is on a 4-win streak counting the last leg in Shanghai in 2011. He is also the first archers to have won in the four cities that…
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World Cup and Final Olympic Qualifications in Ogden
Lausanne – June 14, 2012: World Cup Stage 3: HRACHOV, Stage 3 of the World Cup will exceptionally be the last leg this year. World Archery has usually four qualifying stages to its World Cup Final, but this year as everybody knows there is another big event in the calendar: the Olympic Games. The fact…
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Nine countries already qualified for the World Games
Lausanne, June 14, 2012: The World Games will be held in Cali, Colombia in 2013, for both the compound men and women. The recent African Championships, European Championships, and Panamerican Championships were used as Continental Qualifiers. The outdoor target archery competition of the 2013 World Games will feature only the compound division (field archery is…
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Reo WILDE scores a hat trick at Antalya World Cup 2012
Antalya – May 06, 2012: The team finals in the four international categories were contested on Sunday afternoon on the Antalya beach and concluded the second stage of the World Cup season. Competing in two other finals (men’s team and mixed team) after he won the individual competition on Saturday, the top seeded compound competitor…
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The 17-year-old Deepika KUMARI wins Antalya World Cup
Antalya – May 05, 2012: All individual finals at the Archery World Cup Stage 2 were competed on a beautiful, windy venue, the beach of Antalya. In recurve women the top seeded athlete LEE Sung Jin (KOR), team Olympic champion and silver medallist in Athens 2004, was shocked by the 17-year old junior world champion…
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Quotes of the Individual Finals World Cup stage 2 in Antalya
Antalya – May 05, 2012: Albina LOGINOVA, The individual finals of the four international categories took place today at the World Cup stage 2 in Antalya. Here are the reactions from the finalists live from the beach. Recurve Men IM Dong-Hyun (KOR) – 1st place I’m very happy! I lost two sets but it didn’t…
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New world record at the Para Archery Test Event
London – May 05, 2012: The Russian archer Timur TUCHINOV set a new world record in the recurve men standing division for the opening of the Paralympic Test Event on Friday, 4 May. Cold and colourful are the descriptive words being used at the Royal Archery Barracks for the Para Archery Test Event. Archers and…