The Target: Summer 2012

ISSUE NO1 ’12

Official Magazine of the World Archery Federation

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Dear Friends of Archery,

orld Archery is ready for its most important stage, the 2012 London Games. As you know, archery has an extremely prestigious venue during the Games: the world famous Lord’s Cricket Ground will be the “Home of archery” in London. Fifty-five national flags will wave representing the 128 quota places at Lord’s. I believe that we will have very thrilling matches during the Games, especially after having created the new set system. I believe that all our spectators at Lord’s and our TV audiences around the world will be pleased while watching our great archers.

In this issue of our magazine, you will find wonderful pictures from the three 2012 World Cup events which were held on three different continents. As always, there were exciting and very highly competitive matches between our athletes as they engaged in competitions for the final quota places for London, especially during the last stage in Ogden, Utah, USA.

World Archery is moving forward very rapidly with its new name and new logo, which were the results of our Archery World Plan. As you know, our stakeholders prepared this plan and it has been a very important development for archery. Some elements of our World Plan continue to this day and every day we integrate improvements into our normal operations.

While speaking about our World Plan, let me say that we are finishing the different parts of our original 5-year plan. This set of plans was devised years ago based up the input of several think-tanks. Many of you participated in these think-tanks and were instrumental in the development of our Archery World Plan. From these think-tanks came a general understanding of the approach we wished to take as World Archery developed as an organisation. Then under the guidance of a steering committee, the ideas generated at the think-tank level became concrete plans for improvement.

Throughout the entire process World Archery’s general approach to development was one of from the bottom up. For instance, our set system, which we will be using at the London 2012 Games, was developed with the input of athletes, coaches, and media-aware personnel who have worked with World Archery for many years. As an organisation, World Archery must be open to change, improvement, and forward development. It is our intention to continue with this work in terms of concrete plans to carry us forward for the next five years.

Best regards,

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Prof Dr Ugur ERDENERWorld Archery President

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Editorial from World Archery President Prof Dr Ugur ERDENER 1Did the World Archery Plan succeed at making archery an important Olympic sport? Yes! 4Lord’s: The Home of Archery 8The Greatest Olympic Games in Archery’s History? 1 2Aiming for Olympic Glory from the “Pavilion End” 1 9 Last Olympic places were awarded in Ogden 2 2Archery, the Athletes’ Committee and life according to Viktoriya KOVAL (UKR) 3 4In Shanghai, TONIOLI wins second Archery World Cup event 4 0Team GB gets ready for Olympic Games with World Cup win 4 6

Contents

The Target La Cible 3

Reo WILDE makes history at Ogden World Cup 5 2 World Cup Final 2012 in Tokyo 6 2 VALEEVA Wins her Fifth Individual Indoor World Title in Vegas 6 6

WILDE Again at Indoor World Cup in Vegas! 7 0 World Archery Field Championships Val d’Isères 2012 7 4

World Archery Development Training of Coaching Course Conductors 7 6

Archery World Cup 2012 - Calendar 8 0

Calendar Highlights 8 2

World Ranking Lists 8 3 Our Member Associations 8 4

Sponsors, Partners and Associate Members 8 5

Thanks 8 8

Credit:

The Target 1/2012 has been produced by the World Archery Federation. All rights reserved. Graphic design: World Archery in Ankara, Turkey. All opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily of World Archery. Unless otherwise credited, all pictures are from World Archery archives of World Archery Official Photographer Dean ALBERGA. World Archery Federation – Maison du Sport International - Avenue de Rhodanie 54 - CH-1007 Lausanne, Switzerland.

World Archery Staff: Raheleh AHADPOUR, Vanahé ANTILLE, Sandrine BLATTER MARTINEZ, Jenny BRUGGER, Pascal COLMAIRE, Tom DIELEN, Séverine DERIAZ, Juan Carlos HOLGADO, Ludivine MAITRE WICKI, Didier MIEVILLE, Caroline MURAT, Deqa NIAMKEY.

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Did the World Archery Plan succeed at making archery an important Olympic sport? Yes!

Text: Tom DIELEN Photos: Dean ALBERGA

he World Archery Plan (2007-2012), a proj-ect of change and regeneration for the sport of archery, was introduced in 2007 with the aim of increasing the sport’s international recognition in the lead up to the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

The project focused on making changes that would improve the status of archery at the Olympic Games.

This strategy was rooted in the belief that a more prominent position in the Olympic Games would cre-ate an even stronger platform upon which the sport could develop at all levels.As the London Games rapidly approach, we ask: Has the World Archery Plan succeeded at realis-ing its vision of making the world recognise ar-chery as one of the key Olympic sports by the year 2012?

From the World Archery Plan 2007-2012…


There have been some visible results from the World Plan. The first was the creation of the new ‘World Archery’ brand and spreading this brand to the Continental and Member As-sociations. Archery events have also become more athlete-, TV-,

media- and fan-friendly. Hosting the World Cup Final in iconic locations has showcased archery events in new and innovative ways while also creating important new partnerships with our host cities. The number of international sponsors has increased, and the way in which World Archery reaches out to media and fans around the world has evolved, including using social media platforms to engage varied audiences.

The World Archery Family celebrated these and other accom-plishments at the recent Congresses in 2009 (Ulsan) and 2011 (Turin). The question still remains, however: Does all of this prog-ress prove that World Archery has succeeded in its vision?

The Piazza Castello in Turin for the 2011 world championships illustrated our event concept

Final field in Turin – another success!

…to the World Archery Plan 2012-2016


According to a survey that World Archery ran in June 2012, 61%of the 85 experts polled from the world of international sport agreed that, over the last five years, World Archery has increased its status amongst the Olympic sports. This response can provide World Archery with confidence that it is moving toward its vision.

With these recent successes fresh in our minds, we need to keep this momentum going. This is why, as the World Archery

Plan 2007-2012 is celebrated and comes to a close, a new proj-ect will begin that will continue to inspire change, progress and innovation in archery. We are an important Olympic sport and we will continue to showcase this achievement. Together, we can move our sport to new levels and attain the recognition that World Archery deserves, from which the future development of our sport will come.

The first Member Associations Management Seminar was a true working meeting to share and foster best practices and new ideas. Here are the participants at the Maison du Sport International in Lausanne, home of the World Archery office

Another event with a breath-taking scenery: the Istanbul World Cup Final on the Bosphorus shore

Bosphorus bridge “on top” of the Istanbul World Cup Final 2011


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Victoriya KOVAL, World Archery Athletes Committee Chair, at the Edinburgh World Cup Final in 2010

Alison WILLIAMSON MBE: sixth time Olympian, bronze medallist in Athens, former chair of WA Athlete Committee. WILLIAMSON also won two medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

Lord’s: The Home of Archery

Text: Tom DIELEN Photos: Dean ALBERGA

he world famous Lord’s Cricket Ground, commonly referred to as The Home of Cricket, will welcome a new sport into its domain this summer. On 27 July 2012, Lord’s will become The Home of Archery for the London Olympic Games. Much has changed in the archery family since the Beijing Olympic Games and participants from more than 50 countries will compete for archery’s four Olympic gold med-als in what will be the most competitive field yet encountered.

In Beijing, archery maintained the tradition of the host country winning a gold medal. The medal that was awarded to China was expected to go to the top-ranked archer and reigning Olympic Champion, PARK Sung-Hyun from Korea. However, it was ZHANG Juan

Juan from China who shot most precisely and won the coveted crown. Viktor RUBAN from Ukraine man-aged to keep another Olympic tradition to continue: in the men’s individual competition the favourites from Korea did not win the gold. Not to be unseated, however, the Korean powerhouse took home the two gold medals in the team events.

During the Olympiad, we saw many countries that are new to archery compete at the highest level. This emerging phenomenon is undoubt-edly linked to our World Cup circuit that allowed a much higher level of competition than in the past. During the last two World Championships, we saw medal winners from all five continents. The gold medal from Ibrahim SABRY from Egypt at the Youth Olympic Games clearly shows the


trend that all countries, even those new to the sport, can reach the top.

The women’s competition at the Turin World Championships was won by Denisse VAN LAMOEN from Chile against Kristina ESEBUA from Georgia. The team gold medal went to Italy, leav-ing India with the silver and Korea only managing bronze. The men’s competition was dominated by Korea but only because of the Koreans winning a shoot off against Brady Ellison from the USA.

So this summer, we will be in London, the birthplace of many sports. Archery’s history is also linked to Britain: the five colours on the target originated in the English Archery Rounds, although we have since added more scoring rings. The target’s size of 122cm, however, has never changed.

The Paralympic Games originated in Stoke Mandeville. We look forward to hosting Paralympic Archery at the Royal Artillery Bar-racks. We are eagerly anticipating the Paralympic Games, which demonstrate the incredible level of competition that athletes who have disability are able to achieve.

This summer we will also be coming to the home country of the former World Archery President, Mrs Inger K. FRITH. Mrs FRITH brought archery back to the Olympic Games in 1972. She would have likely been proud of her sport competing at Lord’s, although she probably would have preferred the All Whites rule for uniforms that is maintained for Cricket Test Events.

In terms of the competition format, we will see the set system for the individual competition for the first time at the Olympics. It was successfully used in Singapore for the Youth Olympic Games and at all major competitions since 2010.

Lord’s is a magical venue where sports history has already been made. It has been said that there was already an archery demonstration by the Sioux Indians that was organised by the venue’s namesake, Thomas LORD, in the 19th century. Although the sport has changed considerably since those days, the heritage of our sport will be linked to the Pavilion, which is truly a fantastic place. Walking out of the Pavilion to go to the field of play is magic that will be experienced by all of the athletes at the upcoming Olympic Games.

The historical field will contrast the state-of-the-art media centre behind the targets. We are a modern sport with a strong heritage.

Who will win the Olympic Games in archery? They will be among the 64 men and 64 women that have practiced over four long years, usually six days a week, shooting more than 250,000 arrows over the Olympiad to showcase their best starting on 27 July 2012. Some athletes will be competing at their first Olympic Games, including some of the Youth Olympic Games participants like Miranda LEEK of the USA. We will also have veterans like Alison WILLIAMSON MBE, who will compete in her sixth successive Olympic Games and who won bronze in Athens.

The Lord’s Cricket Ground will be a magnificent venue for archery at the London 2012 Olympic Games


For me it will also be my sixth Olympic Games, and I really look forward to them since over these six Games our sport has gone through many changes.

I want to thank all those have made these Games possible. In particular:

The athletes. Without you there is no competition. We thank you for your commitment and for keeping the integrity of our sport at the highest level possible;

The volunteers that will work 24 hours a day and have been working over the last seven years to deliver this event;

The IOC President and the IOC for hosting the Games, which in the times we live in, truly bring together humanity in friendly competition;

Lord Sebastian COE for his vision and for putting together the bid as well as the organising committee;

Chris MARSH and his entire team for organising the event;

Manolo ROMERO and the Olympic Broadcasting Services for showing the event to the world;

The Press for covering the event; Eva THESEN and Juan Carlos HOLGADO, our Technical Del-

egates, for their patience and hard work; The IOC Sports Department and its director Christophe DUBI; The IOC Games Department and its director, Gilbert FELLI, who

will be missed at future Games; ASOIF, its President and Coordination Committee Chair Denis

OSWALD, and Director Andrew RYAN for their support and com-mitment to deliver the best possible games for all 26 sports;

Olympic Solidarity for their support to our athletes over the last four years;

The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) for proposing to the Bid to host an Olympic Event and for allowing archery to have its home at Lord’s during the Olympic Games. Also special

2008 Paralympian Champion Danielle BROWN (GBR) competes with the able-body athletes in the Archery

World Cup. She will compete “at home” at the London 2012 Paralympic Games

World championships podium: gold for KIM Woojin (KOR), silver for OH Jin Hyek (KOR) and bronze for Brady ELLISON (USA)

World champion Denisse VAN LAMOEN (CHI) will be the flag bearer of the Chilean delegation at the Opening Ceremony in London

IOC President Jacques ROGGE and World Archery President Prof Dr Ugur ERDENER2008 Olympic Champion Viktor RUBAN (middle) together will silver medallist PARK Kyung Mo and bronze medallist Bair BADENOV (RUS)


thanks to Philip HODSON for having given up access to his home (Lord’s) for some weeks of his Presidency of the MCC;

IPC for its continued effort to make sure that the Paralympic Games are a first class event;

The World Archery Member Associations for preparing their ath-letes over the last four years and in particular Archery GB for supplying many volunteers;

The National Olympic Committees for their support to the ath-letes;

The World Archery Athletes’ Committee and its current chair, Viktoriya KOVAL, and former chair Alison WILLIAMSON MBE;

The World Archery Staff and Event Staff; The World Archery Executive Board; The World Archery President for his support and commitment to

our sport.

Embadul HAQUE MILON Md. (BAN) is one of the archers at the London Games who competed at the Singapore

2010 Youth Olympic Games! He is also an Olympic Solidarity scholarship holder

Elisabetta MIJNO and Oscar DE PELLEGRIN (ITA) at archery exhibition during a Juventus Turin football match. They will

compete at the Paralympic Games. DE PELLEGIN was named the Italian delegation flag bearer

World Archery Secretary General Tom DIELEN

The volunteers already helped making a success the London Olympic Games Archery Test Event


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The young ELLISON at the 2008 Olympic Games tattooed the Olympic rings on his forearm Youth Olympian Emdadul HAQUE MILON (BAN)

The Greatest Olympic Games in Archery’s History?

Text: Didier MIEVILLE Photos: Dean ALBERGA

he London 2012 Olympic Games could

well be the greatest Games for archery! Here is why.

The Greatest PlaceArchery will benefit from a truly magnificent venue during the upcoming Olympic Games. The Lord’s Cricket Ground is not only one of the most iconic venues of the Games, but it is also one of the most famous places in British sporting his-tory and is recognised worldwide. What Wembley is to football and Wimbledon is to tennis, Lord’s is to cricket and will be to archery during the London Games.

Recurve Men: the Greatest RivalryPossibly the greatest archery rivalry of all time is developing between IM Dong Hyun from Korea and Brady ELLISON from the USA!

IM, the Roger FEDERER of archery and currently ranked No. 2 in the world, is a star in Korea, having won two team Olympic gold medals in 2004 and 2008. IM is one of the world’s greatest talents in ar-chery’s history: he won the individual silver medal at the World Championships in 2003 at age 17. He went on to win the individual title in 2007 and the team title in 2003, 2007, 2009 and 2011! IM won several World Cup stages (the most recent one was this May in Anta-lya), including the 2008 World Cup Final in Lausanne.


Brady ELLISON (USA) could be referred to as the Rafael NADAL of archery. ELLISON was a top young athlete in the compound division, which is not an Olympic event. He switched to recurve in 2007 and immediately created an impact in the international recurve scene. He qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games by beat-ing all of the American records despite his young age. Brady is now the No. 1 in the world on the men’s side. He won the World Cup Final in 2010 and 2011 and many World Cup stages (the World Cup is a series of events that take place every year, whereas the world championships take place only once every two years). In 2011, he lost only two matches, accu-mulating individual victories at the World Cup Final, three World Cup stages, the Pan-American Championships, the Olympic Test Event in London, and more. He earned the bronze medal at the World Championships (one of his only two defeats). Despite a crowded sports world in the USA, Brady is receiving numerous media requests (including ESPN, NBC, Late Show, etc.). In April 2012, ELLI-SON won the Shanghai World Cup Stage.

ELLISON and IM are the two favourites for the Olympic individual recurve men’s gold medal. Korea and the USA have also historically been the biggest rivals in ar-chery, considering they have dominated the sport

most years. However, the USA has not won the Olympic individual gold since 1996 and Korea has never won it despite winning so many Olympic medals since 1984. Will one of these two giants of archery make his dream and his country’s dream come true in London?

Among the other favourites, Great Britain’s Laurence GODFREY, who ranked 4th in Athens in 2004, has progressed nicely this spring. He ranked 2nd at the final pre-Olympic World Cup Stage in Ogden this past June. We are also counting on the last two Olympic Champions Viktor RUBAN (UKR) and Marco GALIAZZO

(ITA), as well as OH Jin Hyek (KOR), Markiyan IVASHKO (UKR), Juan Rene SERRANO (MEX), Crispin DUENAS (CAN), Jayanta

TALUKDAR (IND) and the 1992 double-medallist Simon TERRY (GBR) to show their experience and

perform well at the London Games. TER-RY retired from archery after the 1992

Games, but returned in 2005 to qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games. He is

now ready to put on a show for his home crowd!

Let’s talk about some young underdogs who

could create a big upset this summer: Luis AL-VAREZ (MEX), who burst into the top level by winning the Ogden World Cup event last month, Rick VAN DER VEN (NED), who won the European Championships in May, Gael PREVOST (FRA) and the 2011 Asian champion

Khairul Anuar MOHAMAD (MAS).

Lord’s venue design for the Olympic Games

Brady ELLISON (USA) winning the 2011 World Cup Final in Istanbul


LEE Sun Jin (KOR) –left- and Alison WILLIAMSON (GBR) – right- on the 2004 Olympic podium with PARK Sung Hyun (KOR)

Korean men’s in action

Korean women’s team

Chinese Taipei

China

Finally, let’s watch out for athletes from countries that were not previously powerhouses in archery: The Venezuelan Elias MALAVE, the European Championships silver medallist Klemen STAJHAR from Slovenia, Rene Philippe KOUASSI from the Ivory Coast, AUNG Nay Myo from Myanmar and Emdadul HAQUE MILON from Bangladesh.

Recurve Men Team: the Greatest Field EverIn light of citing so many spectacular athletes in the individual re-curve competition, the calibre of the 12 teams participating in the recurve men team event has never been so high nor has the com-petition been so tight in the history of the Olympic Games! Each of the participating teams have a realistic shot at the podium. In alphabetical order, the teams will be: China, France, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Chinese Taipei, United States of America, Ukraine.

To attempt to analyse who will perform the best at the Lon-don Games, let’s compile the top 4 finishers in five major archery

France

India


IM Dong Hyun (KOR) –middle- already won the team Olympic gold medal in 2004 Natalia VALEEVA won yet another world title with Italy last year

Marianna AVITIA was the youngest competitor from the entire Mexican delegation in Beijing! She went on with the Singapore Youth Olympic Games and now London!

Who will win? The men’s team event will take place on Saturday, 28 July. Will one of these teams bring home the first gold medal of the London Games? Will Great Britain continue the tradition that the host country usually wins a gold medal in archery?

Recurve Women: Two of the Greatest ParticipantsWill Deepika KUMARI (IND) go down as the greatest archer in

the sport’s history? That answer remains to be seen for years to come, but the 18-year-old is definitely the most talented young athlete on the field. She climbed to the No. 1 spot in the world this spring. At age 16, she won the individual gold medal at the Com-monwealth Games in New Delhi 2010, which made her a star in In-dia. She followed up with two junior world championships titles and many medals at the senior level. She won a team silver medal at the World Championships 2011 in Turin, the individual silver medal at the Individual World Cup Final 2011 in Istanbul and this year, she claimed victory at the Antalya World Cup Stage.

KUMARI is in good company, with two of the greatest partici-pants in Olympic history competing against her. Both Alison WIL-

LIAMSON (GBR) and Natalia VALEEVA (ITA) will compete in their sixth consecutive Olympic Games. This ties

the archery record set by the Italian DI BUO and WILLIAMSON will also tie the British record of the most Olympic Games com-peted in across all sports. For this feat, WILLIAMSON was awarded the Queen’s

MBE recognition. WILLIAMSON won an Olympic bronze in 2004. Tied with her for

events since 2008 (the Beijing Games, the 2009 and 2011 World Championships, the 2010 Asian Games and the 2011 Olympic Test Event) and the three World Cup stages in 2012:

Events 1st 2nd 3rd 4th

2008 Olympic Games in Beijing:

KOR ITA CHN UKR

2009 World Champi-onships in Ulsan:

KOR FRA JPN CHN

2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou:

KOR CHN IND TPE

2011 World Champi-onships in Turin:

KOR FRA ITA MEX

2011 London Test Event: USA TPE KOR* ESP2012 World Cup Stage Shanghai:

USA FRA UKR KOR

2012 World Cup Stage Antalya: GBR IND KOR FRA2012 World Cup Stage Ogden: USA IND GBR ITA

*Korea broke the world record in the quarterfinals.

This gives:4 victories to Korea in the most important events;2 silver medals to France at the two world championships;2 victories to the USA in the three World Cup stages this year;2 places to India at the last two World Cup stages; and2 podium results to Great Britain at the last two World Cup stages.


archery’s greatest number of Olympic Games, VALEEVA competed on three different teams at the Games (the Unified Team, which was the name used for the sports team of the former Soviet Union, in 1992, Moldova in 1996, and Italy since 2000). She won two individual World Championships and team World Championships across three decades! Just like Simon TERRY on the men’s side, she earned two bonze medals at the Barcelona Games in 1992. At the 2012 Games, a former teammate of VALEEVA’s will also be competing: Khatuna LORIG, who competed on the Unified Team in 1992, Georgia in 1996 and 2000, and now for the USA! LORIG will play in her fifth Games (she missed Athens). LORIG was also a personal coach to actress Jennifer LAWRENCE in the recent Hun-ger Games film.

KUMARI will have two other very strong opponents in London: the Koreans KI Bo Bae and LEE Sung Jin. At No. 2 in the world, KI has been now on the Korean team for three years, accumulating experience and victories but also some individual disappointment at the World Championships and Asian Games. Which KI will show up on the Lord’s field? LEE is no less than the individual silver medallist (and team gold medallist) from Athens 2004. On the 1st of July, she was ranked “only” 27th in the world, because she recently

came back to the Korean national team after fighting to overcome a shoulder injury. LEE won the individual and team gold at the 2005 World Championships. LEE has also the great PARK Sun-Hyung as her personal coach. PARK won the individual gold in Ath-ens, and came 2nd in Beijing, among many other accomplishments).

Other favourites include the Chinese and Russian archers, TAN Ya Ting and LE Chieh Ying (TPE), Miranda LEEK (USA), Alejandra VALENCIA (MEX), KWON Un Sil (PRK). There is also the surprise 2011 World Champion Denisse VAN LAMOEN from Chile and Bishindee URANTUNGALAG from Mongolia!

Recurve Women Team: the Greatest Streak Ever?On the women’s team side, Korea has won all of the Olympic

team gold medals in the history of the event. This six out of six streak started in 1988, a record that features among the top across all of the Olympic sports. In women’s events, only the for-mer Soviet Union outperformed this streak with eight consecu-tive gold medals in women’s artistic gymnastics from 1952-80. Will Korea climb one more step in this record race? Can they be beaten? Their arch-rival China, as well as Chinese Taipei and India, have never been so close. Other teams, including Rus-sia, Mexico, the USA, Great Britain, Japan, Ukraine, Denmark

Deepika KUMARI (IND) The “silver fox” Simon TERRY (GBR) Deepika KUMARI (IND) at the 2011 World Cup Final in Istanbul

KI Bo Bae (KOR) Mexico


IM Dong Hyun winning the 2008 World Cup Final in Lausanne

The last three men’s team that qualified for the Games: Japan-India-Chinese Taipei China at the Test Event at Lord’s last year

Natalia VALEEVA and Khatuna LORIG with the Unified Team on the 3rd place team podium of the 1992 Olympic Games

Viktor RUBAN (UKR) will defend his Olympic title

Larry GODFREY (GBR) at Athens 2004


Programme:

Friday 27 July

Ranking Round (in the morn-ing of Opening Ceremony Day)

Saturday28 July

Men’s Team Eliminations and FinalsVictory Ceremony

Sunday29 July

Women’s Team Eliminations and FinalsVictory Ceremony

Monday30 July

Men’s & Women’s Individual - 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations

Tuesday31 July


Wednes-day1 August


Thursday2 August

Women’s Individual - 1/8 Eliminations & FinalsVictory Ceremony

Friday3 August

Men’s Individual - 1/8 Eliminations & FinalsVictory Ceremony

and Italy, who are the current World Champions, all may pose a slightly lower threat.

Who will win? As with the men, we can attempt a analysis based on the teams’ performances at the last major international archery events:

Events 1st 2nd 3rd 4th

2008 Olympic Games in Beijing:

KOR CHN FRA GBR

2009 World Champi-onships in Ulsan:

KOR JPN RUS BLR

2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou:

KOR CHN IND TPE

2011 World Champi-onships in Turin:

ITA IND KOR CHN

2011 London Test Event: KOR CHN JPN GBR2012 World Cup Stage Shanghai:

KOR IND CHN UKR

2012 World Cup Stage Antalya: KOR TPE CHN MEX2012 World Cup Stage Ogden: RUS USA MEX GER

So Korea, who stayed home to train during the Ogden Stage, was beaten only once during the eight events. Italy took ad-vantage of this opportunity that India opened up for them by beating Korea, and won the World Championships. The Koreans also went to a double shoot-off (extra arrows) against China at the Asian Games before prevailing. This cannot be replicated in London as the tie-break rule changed. In the case of a tie in the shoot-off, the team that has the closest arrow to the centre wins the match. And this, if it happens at the London 2012 Olympic Games, would be one of the great moments in the history of archery competition!

World champion Denisse VAN LAMOEN (CHI) Great Britain is ready

Gael PREVOST (FRA)


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Recurve Women gold medal match between Justyna MOSPINEK (POL) and JUNG Dasomi (KOR) at Archery Test Event 2011

The famous Father Time weather vane at Lord’s

Aiming for Olympic Glory from the “Pavilion End”

Text: Philip BARKER Photos: Dean ALBERGA

Philip BARKER

rchery will be the first individual sport

in action at the 2012 Olympics and the first sport held within London city limits. The ranking rounds will be held at Lord’s Cricket Ground on the day of the Opening Ceremony. The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) owns the ground and their famous red and yellow ban-ner will fly alongside the five Olympic Rings throughout the Games.

“There is a buzz around the place, a real excite-ment that we are involved so closely with the Olym-pics. It is really good for us to be hosting such a global event,” said new MCC Chief Executive Derek BREWER.

Olympic organisers took over the ground after the England v India women’s cricket match on 1 July 2012. Many people who will come to Lord’s during the Olympic period will already be well acquainted with their surroundings. One familiar face will be the BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan AGNEW who has been assigned to report on archery. Last year, former England cricket captain Michael ATHERTON wrote about the archery test event in The Times.

“It will be a great addition to have actual cricket commentators working the event,” said BREWER.

The MCC offered their facilities as soon as the Olympic bid was announced. Displays of archery were held on the ground during international cricket matches and, in 2007, Great Britain was joined by China and India to contest the MCC Ar-chery Cup. It was the first chance to envision how archery would look at this famous venue during the Olympic Games.

The Olympic ranking rounds will be held on the Nursery Ground, where the appropriately named

“Cross Arrows” club play cricket every September.Medal competitions will take place in the main

arena, where archers will shoot with a backdrop of the Victorian pavilion, which was built six years be-fore the first modern Olympic Games in 1896.

The field itself is one of the oldest sporting ven-ues in the world. In 1814, Thomas LORD laid down turf to establish the arena that now bears his name. Although he had been forced to move the cricket


arena twice from other sites in the vicinity, this venue stood the test of time.

Back in 1904, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) visited Lord’s for a cricket match and watched Middlesex play against South Africa. Later in the day, they headed to nearby Regents Park to watch archery at the Royal Toxophilite Society.

During the 2012 Games, Lord’s ground staff will continue to tend to the square and all important cricket pitches. Temporary stands will be placed on the outfield to enable spectators to gain a closer view of the archery competition. IOC members will watch from the historic Long Room, which is normally the preserve of members of the host MCC club.


“I work here every day, but it is still a special place to go into. Whatever sport you are involved in at whatever level, when you come into the Long Room, there is an aura and atmosphere about it that is unique,” said BREWER.

“The members I’ve spoken to are fully behind the Olympics. All the members’ tickets went very quickly when they came up for grabs.”

When the Olympic Games are over, the temporary stands will be removed, and the race will be on to repair any damaged areas before one of the cricketing highlights of the summer begins on 16 August: the England v South Africa test match.

Chinese archers in 2007 at the MCC Cup Team GBR: Amy OLIVER, Alison WILLIAMSON and Naomi FOLKARD

Archery advertised at the Grace Gates

World record for OH Jin Hyek, IM Dong-Hyun and KIM Woojin (KOR) with coach (left) at Archery Test Event 2011

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No. 1 in the world Brady ELLISON (USA) with young British fans


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Last Olympic places were awarded in Ogden

Text: Didier MIEVILLEScott EINSMANN

Photos: Dean ALBERGA

gden, USA, hosted three competitions within

one event from 18-24 June 2012: the Archery World Cup Stage 3 (18-24 June)—see our re-port on later pages—the Final Team Olympic Qualification (21 June) and the Final Individual Olympic Qualification Tournaments (22 June).

The qualifications for the Ogden World Cup stage that were held on 19 June were also valid as quali-fications for the Final Olympic Qualification Tourna-ment (FQT). Only the scores of the teams participat-ing in the FQT were taken into consideration. These scores were used to create the match play bracket for the team FQT. The bracket for the FQT for in-dividuals was only established after the FQT team tournament was complete.

Final Team Olympic Qualification TournamentThere were three remaining team Olympic spots (for which each team consists of three individual team

members) per gender up for grab in Ogden. Coun-tries that had not yet qualified a full team at the Turin 2011 World Championships could enter the team FQT. The FQT took place on Thursday, 21 June. The competition was a true battlefield: on the men’s side, a total of 32 teams competed for three places; on the women’s side, 28 teams competed for three Olympic berths.

Team Recurve MenWith 1942 points, Chinese Taipei topped the quali-fications for the FQT. Russia finished second among the teams fighting for Olympic qualification with a score of 1940 points, and India came third with 1938 points.

In the first round (1/8 elimination), the No. 15 Ro-mania upset the No. 2 Russia by one point, ending the match 219-218. The No. 9 seeded Iran defeated No. 8 ranked Germany 217-216. The top ranked Chinese Taipei trailed Finland 163-164 but turned

Evangelia PSARRA (GRE) (right) qualified for her fourth Olympic Games! Yavor Vasilev HRISTOV (BUL)


the situation around to win 220-214. The No. 11 Canada defeated the No. 6 Netherlands 220-216.

In the quarterfinals, Iran led Chinese Taipei 55-53, 109-107 and 162-160. However, Chinese Taipei came back at the end and clinched victory by 215-212. India scored 58 in the last end against Canada to win 224-216. Australia (No. 7) and Japan (No.

5) also made it to the semi-finals. Three of these four semi-finalists would qualify for the Olympic Games in the finals round.

What a match the semi-final between India and Australia was! The Aussies led 56-53, 110-108 until India tied the score to 165-165. Then, with only two arrows to go, the two teams were tied again at 202-202. India shot a 10, while Australia scored a 7. India

Decisive match between India and Australia

Reena PARNAT (EST) Rafal DOBROWOLSKI (POL)


finished with a 9 to clinch the match and the Olympic qualification 221-209! Australia finished with a “miss” but that did not matter as their semi-final fate was already sealed. In the other semi-final, the match between Chinese Taipei and Japan was tight until the third end: 54-53, 107-105, 158-159. Japan finished more strong-ly than Chinese Taipei, and went on to win 210-202.

Whereas Japan’s victory 221-218 over India in the first place match was just for bragging rights—the two teams had already clinched their Olympic spots—the 3rd place encounter between Aus-tralia and Chinese Taipei would determine to whom the last Olympic spot would go. The No. 1 seeded Chinese Taipei did not want to let their last chance go. The Asian team dominated the match from be-ginning to end: 56-53, 112-110 and 165-159, for a victory 216-213.

Zhara DEHGHANABNAVI (IRI)

Yerubi SUAREZ (VEN) vs Begul LOKLUOGLU (TUR)

Team Venezuela

USA and Mongolia in the first round

Coach LEE Kissik - one the most successful coaches in archery history - brings two full US teams to London

Axel MULLER (SUI) congratulated by teammate Dominik FABER (SUI)


Team Recurve WomenMexico topped the qualifications in the women’s team FQT with 1986 points. Japan came second with 1940 points and the USA came in third with a score of 1932.

In the 1/8 elimination round, Georgia (No. 12) upset Germany (No. 5) 214-204. No. 4 seeded France trailed 46-53 after the first end against Canada (No. 13) but came back and prevailed 204-195.

Georgia and France then faced each other in the quarterfinals and finished regulation time tied at 210-210! In the shoot-off, France scored 10-10-8, while Georgia shot 10-10-9 to claim vic-tory. USA (No. 3) had a good lead against Belarus (No. 6), and although the Eastern Europeans came back strong in the last end, the Americans prevailed 212-210. Mexico and Japan, who were

Leidys BRITO and Elias MALAVE (VEN)

It is a “go” for Japan

The athletes who who an individual place for their countries

Elias MALAVE (VEN) World Archery Secretary General Tom DIELEN gives certificates to the athletes who won an Olympic place for their countries

Rafal DOBROWOLSKI (POL) v Axel MULLER (SUI)


the top two teams from qualifications, also reached the semi-finals. Three out of these four teams would qualify for the Olympic Games.

Lifted by their fans, the USA were cheered into Olympic qualifi-cation! The match was tight but they led all the way against Japan: 55-53, 109-107, 163-161, and 218-212. In the other semi-final, Mexico could also count on the support of numerous fans and beat Georgia 212-207.

The first place match was a tight match between the USA and Mexico. There was a tie at 213 and again after the shoot-off (27-27). As each team had shot a 10 in the tie-breaker, the judge had to measure which country’s arrow was closest to the centre. After measurement, it was determined that the USA’s arrow was the closest, thereby naming the hometown team the victors. There

was still one Olympic spot to be decided on the female side, and it was between Georgia and Japan. In the third place match, the Georgian ladies led 55-52 after one end, but the Japanese came back to tie at 104-104. The Asian athletes then took the lead at 155-152 and finally clinched Olympic qualification, 212-200!

Final Individual Olympic Qualification Tournament The Final Individual Qualification Tournament on Friday, 22 June, allocated the remaining individual places for the London 2012 Olympic Games. The tournament was open to all countries that had not yet obtained an Olympic berth for each gender through the other qualification events.

Japan was the only team in Ogden to qualify both men and women. However, in total 10 countries have qualified both men and women’s teams

Australia finished 4th - the athletes are disappointed

Mexico came with a lot fans!


If any of the countries that won a team quota place in Ogden (see above) had already obtained an individual quota place, this was added to the list of available places for the Final Individual Qualification Tournament. There were therefore seven qualification spots that remained for the men and eight for the women. These places were contested by 80 men (from 35 countries) and 50 women (from 25 countries).

The top eight performances from qualifications were pre-seed-ed in the 1/16 eliminations. The matches were played out through five sets of three arrows (two points per set to be earned). If the match was tied at five set points for each archer, there was a one arrow shoot-off, with the closest arrow to centre winning.

Individual Recurve MenOn the men’s side, after tense matches from the 1/48 and 1/8 elimination rounds, there were still eight athletes from eight dif-ferent countries for seven Olympic spots! The rules were clear: the four quarterfinal winners won a spot to the Games, while the four losers were ranked based on their set points (and, if needed, ar-rows points). The top three won the remaining places.

The decisive quarterfinal match turned out to be between Rafal DOBROWOLSKI of Poland and Silie TAN of Singapore. DOBROWOL-SKI won the match in straight sets 6-0. As the three other matches went beyond three sets, all of the other competitors scored at least one set point and secured a spot in the Olympics for their coun-

Tension

Japan – India – Chinese Taipei: here are the last men’s teams that are going to London!

USA – USA!


tries: Yavor Vasilev HRISTOV (BUL), Denis GANKIN (KAZ), Rafal DO-BROWOLSKI (POL), Mark JAVIER (PHI), Klemen STRAJHAR (SLO), Axel MULLER (SUI), and Elias MALAVE (VEN). TAN was the only quarterfinalist who did not qualify for London.Individual Recurve Women On the women’s side, the rule was more straightforward: the eight athletes who reached the quarterfinals would win their tick-ets to the London Olympic Games. The only exception would be if there were several archers from the same country who reached the quarterfinals. In this case, a “play-off” would be competed among the athletes who lost in the 1/8 eliminations who were from the countries that had not yet won an Olympic spot.

In the decisive round (1/8 elimination), the three-time Olym-pian Evangelia PSARRA won a spot for Greece by defeating An-neli PREIMANN (EST) in a very tight match: 7-3 (26-26, 23-23, 25-23, 26-26, 28-27). However, Estonia clinched an Olympic place nevertheless thanks to Reena PARNAT (EST) who beat Brina BOZIC (SLO) 6-2. Switzerland also won a spot with Celine SCHOBINGER, defeating Aita-Evi ATLA (GRE) 7-3. Kazakhstan will be going to London thanks to Anastassiya BANNOVA (KAZ) defeating Asel SHARBEKOVA (KGZ) 6-0.

Finally, two athletes from Turkey and two from Venezuela won their 1/8 round matches: Damla ERGIN (TUR) 6-2 v Edwina DELOS REYES (PHI); Begul LOKLUOGLU (TUR) 6-2 v Zahra DEHGHANAB-NAVI (IRI); Leidys BRITO (VEN) 6-2 v Rachelle Anne CABRAL (PHI); Yerubi SUAREZ (VEN) 6-2 v Laura KOURULA (FIN). However, as a particular country could only win one Olympic berth, there were two spots that remained to be awarded between the “lucky losers” Asel SHARBEKOVA (KGZ), Edwina DELOS REYES and Rachel Anne CABRAL (PHI), Zhara DEHGHANABNAVI (IRI), Brina BOZIC (SLO) and Laura KOURULA (FIN).

Based on their seed (qualification scores), CABRAL and BOZIC had a bye. In the first “play-off” matches, DELOS REYES defeated SHARBEKOVA 6-2, and DEHGHANABNAVI beat KOURULA, 6-0. As the two athletes from the Philippines, DELOS REYES and CABRAL, played each other in the next round, Philippines had already se-cured an Olympic spot!

The last qualification spot at stake was competed for between DEHGHANABNAVI from Iran and BOZIC from Slovenia. These ladies were tied 2-2 after two sets. DEHGHANABNAVI won the third and fourth sets, clinching the match 6-2 as well as the last Olympic place in the women’s category!

“Yes, we are going to the Olympic Games!”

Turkish Delegation

Victory for USA!

Celine SCHOBINGER (SUI)


This Final Olypmic Qualification Tournament completed the archery participants, 64 men and 64 women, at the Lon-don 2012 Olympic Games. They are listed in the magazine

as known as the date of publication. Moreover, the Olympic places must be ultimately confirmed by the National Olympic Committees.

Japan – Mexico – USA: here are the last women’s teams that are going to London!

Mariana AVITIA (MEX) Rafal DOBROWOLSKI (POL)


Olympic Games Participants in ArcheryAs per information on 10 July

All the NOCs (National Olympic Committee) with three men/women athletes will particapte in the respective team competitions with these athletes.

Men ParticipantsNOC Name NOC Name

AUS WORTH Taylor KAZ GANKIN Denis

BAN HAQUE MILON Md. Emdadul KOR IM Dong HyunKIM BubminOH Jin Hyek

BRA REZENDE XAVIER Daniel LUX HENCKELS Jeff

BUL HRISTOV Yavor Vasilev MAS CHENG Chu SianKAMARUDDIN HaziqMOHAMAD Khairul Anuar

CAN DUENAS Crispin MDA OLARU Dan

CHN DAI XiaoxiangLIU ZhaowuXING Yu

MEX ALVAREZ LuisVELEZ EduardoSERRANO Juan Rene

CIV KOUASSI Rene Philippe MGL GANTUGS Jantsan

COL PINEDA Daniel Felipe MYA AUNG Nay Myo

CUB STEVENS Juan-Carlos NED VAN DER VEN Rick

EGY EL-NEMR Ahmed NOR NESTENG Baard

ESP CUESTA Elias PHI JAVIER Mark

FIJ ELDER Robert POL DOBROWOLSKI Rafal

FRA FAUCHERON ThomasGIROUILLE RomainPREVOST Gael

SLO STRAJHAR Klemen

GBR GODFREY LaurenceTERRY SimonWILLS Alan

SMR GUIDO Emmanuele

GER MAYR Camilo SUI MULLER Axel

HKG LEE Kar Wai Calvin THA THAMWONG Witthaya

IND TALUKDAR JayantaBANERJEE RahulRAI Tarundeep

TPE CHEN Yu-ChengKUO Cheng WeiWANG Cheng Pang

IRI MANOOCHEHRRIMOGHADAM Nader

UKR RUBAN ViktorHRACHOV DmytroIVASHKO Markiyan

ITA GALIAZZO MarcoFRANGILLI MicheleNESPOLI Mauro

USA ELLISON BradyKAMINSKI JakeWUKIE Jacob

JPN KIKUCHI HidekiFURUKAWA TakaharuISHIZU Yu

VEN MALAVE Elias


Olympic Games Participants in ArcheryAs per information on 10 July

All the NOCs (National Olympic Committee) with three men/women athletes will particapte in the respective team competitions with these athletes.

Women ParticipantsNOC Name NOC Name

AUS BARNARD Elisa ITA VALEEVA NataliaTOMASI JessicaLIONETTI Pia

BHU SHERAB Zam JPN HAYAKAWA RenKANIE MikieKAWANAKA Kaori

BLR TIMOFEYEVA Ekaterina KAZ BANNOVA Anastassiya

CAN BEAUDET Marie-Pier KOR CHOI HyeonjuKI Bo BaeLEE Sung Jin

CHI VAN LAMOEN Denisse Astrid MAS HASHIM Nurul Syafiiqah

CHN CHENG MingFANG YutingXU Jing

MEX AVITIA MarianaROMAN AidaVALENCIA Alejandra

COL RENDON Ana Maria MGL URANTUNGALAG Bishindee

DEN CHRISTIANSEN CarinaJAGER MajaLAURSEN Louise

PHI CABRAL Rachelle Anne

EGY Nada Kamel POL LESNIAK Natalia

ESP GRANDAL Iria PRK KWON Un Sil

EST PARNAT Reena RSA HULTZER Karen

FRA SCHUH Berengere RUS PEROVA KseniaSTEPANOVA InnaTIMOFEEVA Kristina

GBR FOLKARD NaomiOLIVER AmyWILLIAMSON Alison

SAM TUIMALEALIIFANO Maureen

GEO ESEBUA Kristine SUI DIELEN Nathalie

GER RICHTER Elena SWE BJERENDAL Christine

GRE PSARRA Evangelia TPE LE Chien-YingTAN Ya-TingLIN Chia-En

INA ROCHMAWATI Ika Yuliana TUR LOKLUOGLU Begul

IND DEVI BombaylaKUMARI DeepikaSWURO Chekrovolu

UKR SICHENIKOVA LidiiaPALEKHA KaterynaDOROKHOVA Tetyana

IRI ASADI Sareh USA LEEK MirandaLORIG KhatunaNICHOLS Jennifer

IRQ AL-MASHHADANI Rand VEN BRITO Leidys

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Archery, the Athletes’ Committee and life according to Viktoriya KOVAL (UKR)

Text: Didier MIEVILLEVanahé ANTILLE


he Ukrainian archer Viktoriya KOVAL is the

Chairwoman of the World Archery Athletes’ Committee and a member of the World Ar-chery Executive Board. In a recent interview, she shared her thoughts on archery, Olympism, and her role in sports administration.

What is the role of the World Archery Athletes’ Committee? Our role is to represent the archers. We are the link between World Archery and the athletes,

making sure that communication flows freely between the two parties. Our committee gathers the opinions expressed by the archers and com-municates their main messages to the Secretary General of World Archery Tom DIELEN and to the Events Director Juan Carlos HOLGADO. We also ensure that information travels in the other di-rection by communicating World Archery’s mes-sages to the athletes.


Getting ready

How did you start working with the Athletes’ Committee of World Archery?My involvement with the Committee was unanticipated. In 2009, the World Ar-chery Events Director Juan Carlos HOLGADO and the Secretary General Tom DIELEN proposed my candidature for the Athletes’ Committee. I decided to give it a try and accepted their proposal.

I was chosen because they wanted to have a member who would represent the Russian-speaking athletes. We are a strong force in ar-chery: not only do competitors from all of the for-mer Soviet countries speak Russian, but many Western countries also have Russian-speak-ing archers. Notable examples include Ve-ronika HAIDN TSCHALOVA

from Germany, Natalia VALEEVA of Italy, Khatuna LORIG of the USA, and the list goes on.

Our committee is very diverse: I speak English and Russian, Linda OCHOA (MEX) speaks English and

Spanish, Wietse VAN ALTEN (NED) speaks Eng-lish, Dutch, and German, Matija ZLENDER (SLO) speaks Slovenian and English, Pippa BRITTON

from Great Britain (who represents the para-ar-chers) speaks English, and HAN Seung Hoon (KOR) speaks English and Korean. We can therefore com-municate with our archers in several languages. We compile key points of view on important matters and group them by lan-

guage and by category (re-curve, compound, field, para-archery, etc.)


What is the main concern that the Committee is addressing at the present time?For instance, we are talking about the Olympic Games and their qualification system. There are some discussions about the wild card quotas and based on our recommendations, World Archery has taken this discussion further to the IOC and ASOIF.

Another important point of discussion involves the possible in-troduction of a mixed team category or the inclusion of the com-pound class at the Olympic Games. These considerations are very important because, in most countries, there is no support for sports that are not Olympic disciplines. If compound became an Olympic event, the worldwide calibre for compound archery would increase.

Archery has only four events at the Olympic Games: two for individuals and two for teams. This represents a small number of events compared to other sports like athletics or swimming. We suggested to World Archery that we ought to try to obtain an addi-tional event. World Archery has now presented this proposal to the International Olympic Committee. As of yet, we do not know what the outcome will be: deliberations on proposals such as this take a long time and the status quo can be difficult to change.

What other examples are there regarding the Committee’s main points of concern?Another important point of discussion circles around the inequali-ties that are intrinsic to the side of the field from which an archer shoots. Depending on where the wind comes from, an archer is either protected or not. If the wind crosses from right to left, you are protected if you stand on the right side, but you suffer from the cross-wind if you shoot from the left. This is something that we could potentially amend. It was proposed that, in the team competition, the three members shoot separately, with one ar-cher shooting from the right, one from the middle and one from the left.

Another hot topic has to do with the new rules. Why do com-pound archers shoot from 50 metres while recurve athletes shoot from 70, when compound supposedly allows for more precision? This is a delicate issue: World Archery needs to differentiate the rules of the compound division from those of recurve if we want to have compound included in the Olympic Games. The Committee wants to help World Archery find new solutions to this issue.

What do you think about the evolution of archery over the last few years?Archery has undergone a very big and positive evolution since the World Cup was launched in 2006. The overall level of com-petition has increased considerably, and the finals have become more visible to live and television spectators. This last point is very important to the dissemination of awareness about our sport.

In my hometown of Kharkov, for example, we have two million inhabitants but only one archery club. Nevertheless, the club is very successful in terms of international results: it recently pro-duced Olympic medallists Viktor RUBAN and Oleksandr SERDYUK, among other notable archers. We have a strong tradition and very good coaches. However, not many people know about archery, and we need more children to try the sport. Television coverage encour-ages awareness and new participation. For example, the Olym-pic victory of Viktor RUBAN was excellent at promoting archery in Ukraine after 2008, because people saw images of his victory on television.

What can you say about the role of television in the development of archery?TV images are the best vehicle for promoting archery as TV can reach vast audiences worldwide. After discovering archery on TV, maybe young children will be tempted to try the sport and will go on to become the next Olympic champions!

The showcase of the World Cup Final in spectacular locations was an excellent idea. The World Archery Events Director Juan Carlos HOLGADO is a top-level manager who has lots of good

Focused

At the 2010 Antalya World Cup


ideas. World Archery is very fortunate that it has a great team that it can depend on for the development of our sport. We are also lucky to have people like the World Archery President Prof Dr Ugur ERDENER who take part in many conferences worldwide and in-crease archery’s visibility.

The athletes have had to adapt in some ways to rules made for television. Can you discuss these adaptations and their impact on the archers?Archery TV and television broadcasts are tailored to the spectators. In that respect, we have had to adjust some rules to make ar-chery more TV-friendly. For example, the format of the final rounds is designed for TV rather than for the athletes. Archers don’t like the 20-second time limit in the finals; it is too stressful. What do you do if it’s windy? Remember last year when it was so windy at the Antalya World Cup in 2011 that even the Korean women shot misses? The matches go very quickly. This format does not favour the archers. It is, however, very good for TV. If we want to develop our sport, we must make it TV-friendly. We do, however, have to find a balance between what is TV-friendly and what is also archer-friendly. What about yourself, how did you become involved in archery?Archery is a tradition in my family: my mother was the cham-pion of the USSR and she is now a coach. She competed in archery when she was pregnant with me, and I obtained an Olympic spot for Ukraine last year when I was pregnant with my daughter Diana! I discovered the sport at the age of 3, but

didn’t shoot seriously until I was 12 years old. I had tried many different kinds of sports, including athletics, gymnastics, and volleyball, but by the age of 12, I started to take archery seri-ously. In 2001, at age 18, I competed in my first international event: the European Junior Cup in Croatia, where I won my first international medal. I now have two coaches: Alexander XENO-FONTOV and my mother. How do you combine elite sports with taking care of a baby?Very well! I have a normal life for a Ukrainian woman (laughs): I have a husband, a baby, and a job that is archery. In my country, all of the National Team members are professional athletes funded by the Ministry of Sports. We receive a salary equivalent to an average Ukrainian salary. It’s fantastic to be paid to do what we like best, because archery is my passion. Everything will go well for me as long as I keep shooting well: if I stop obtaining good results, younger sportswomen might take my place on the team.

I started shooting again one month after giving birth to my daughter. I take my baby to training with me; my mother and my husband are coaches so the whole family works together at the field. I took part in my first competition in Ukraine in late April. My result of 1328 was good. I hope to compete in prominent interna-tional competitions very soon!

How is your level of shooting and training these days?I shoot nearly 150 arrows a day in an average of two to three hours. I try to shoot more and more as the Olympic Games ap-proach. If I qualify for London, I have to be in good shape. If I don’t qualify, I can take training more easily. We will see how I perform in the internal selections. We are lucky because Ukraine has already obtained three places for women (compared to only two in Beijing, where I was fortunate to have been chosen to be one of the two). I used to be on the team for major events but I wasn’t selected to compete at the Antalya World Cup 2012 because I emerged fifth from the internal selection and only four women could go. I com-peted at the Beijing Olympics and although I’m going to be present in London as a Member of the World Archery Executive Board, I hope to be there as an athlete as well!

At the Edinburgh World Cup Final 2010

Winner of the Antalya World Cup Stage 2010


What is your message to the athletes and to young archers?The most important message is to communicate well with other sports, other countries, and other National Olympic Committees. I

hope to help the information travel effectively between the organis-ing committees, the sport federations and the athletes.

As elite archers, we have a wonderful lifestyle. We train, we shoot in competition, we have international friends that we meet on the circuit… All of the emotions that we share in competition are very intense, and those include not only the emotions that we feel ourselves but also those that are emitted from other champions like Brady ELLISON (USA). If you want to become one of the best archers, you must dedicate five to ten years of your life to the sport. This is true not only for archery, but also for life in general. If you really want it and work hard, you can achieve your dreams.

Will your daughter be an archer?I think so. Both my family and my husband’s family are archery families. I guess she should try our sport too! I will, however, let her choose what she wants to do with her life.

Thank you and all the best.

With World Archery Honorary President James EASTON (right) and World Archery Technical Chair Don RABSKA (left)

With World Archery President and IOC Member Dr Ugur ERDENER at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Taking care of her daughter

On the podium of the Edinburgh World Cup Final 2010

At the IOC Athletes Commission meeting with IOC Member Frankie FREDERICKS

With coaches as well as Ukrainian NOC President and IOC Member Sergey BUBKA


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Marcella TONIOLI (ITA), Compound Women Individual winner

Exhibition of traditional archery

Compound Women Individual: 1. Marcella TONIOLI (ITA), 2. Albina LOGINOVA (RUS), 3. Diane WATSON (USA)

KI Bo Bae (KOR), Recurve Women Individual winner

In Shanghai, TONIOLI wins second Archery World Cup event

Text: Ludivine MAITRE WICKIPhotos: Dean ALBERGA

he first World Cup Stage of the season took

place in Shanghai, China from 10-15 April 2012. The Riverside Boulevard on the East bank of Huangpu River welcomed the final matches for the second time.

The teams in the recurve division took the field first for their medal matches on Saturday morning, 14 April, 2012. Team USA, which was made up of Jacob WUKIE, Joe FANCHIN and Brady ELLISON, clinched victory in the men’s team competition,

225-220 against France’s Gael PREVOST, Thomas FAUCHERON and Romain GIROUILLE. Third place went to the Koreans IM Dong Hyun, KIM Bubmin and OH Jin Hyek, who beat the reigning Olympic champion Viktor RUBAN and his teammates from Ukraine Dmytro HRACHOV and Markiyan IVASHKO with a score of 221-216.

Korea confirmed supremacy on the female side. LEE Sung Jin, CHANG Hye Jin and KI Bo Bae proved to be the most consistent in the final against India’s


Deepika KUMARI, Chekrovolu SWURO and Laishram Bombayla DEVI with ends of 55, 56, 55, and 56 points. Once again, they deserved victory, securing the lead 222-212. The local archers CHENG Ming, XU Jing and FANG Yuting were the most consistent throughout the 3rd place match and clinched a 217-206 victory against Ukraine’s Kateryna PALEKHA, Juliia ZAKHARCHENKO and Lidiia SICHENIKOVA.

In the mixed team event, the No. 2 seeded double of Chinese Taipei won gold. KUO Cheng Wei and TAN Ya-Ting beat the Japa-nese Hideki KIKUCHI and Ren HAYAKAWA 149-144. Japan suc-

ceeded twice despite expectations in this competition: entering eliminations as the lowest seeded mixed team, they upset the No. 1 Koreans, the No. 9 Ukrainians and the No. 5 Chinese in the previ-ous rounds. Third place was clinched by China’s XING Yu and FANG Yuting. The Chinese, who were on home soil, were cheered by a rapturous crowd along the Riverside Boulevard and defeated the American pair of Brady ELLISON and Khatuna LORIG, 143-141.

The recurve division’s competition ended with the four individ-ual medal matches on Saturday afternoon. On the men’s side, the American Brady ELLISON was again a cut above the competition.

Finals field

Recurve Men Individual 1st place match: Brady ELLISON (USA) v Dmytro HRACHOV (UKR) Duncan BUSBY and Danielle BROWN (GBR), Compound Mixed Team 3rd place


He clinched a straightforward victory over Ukraine’s Dmytro HRA-CHOV 6-0 in the final match. Thomas AUBERT from France and CHENG Chu Sian from Malaysia went to a shoot-off in the 3rd place match where they each scored an 8. At the end, CHENG’s arrow proved the closest to the centre, thereby securing him the victory.

In the women’s event, the Korean KI Bo Bae ruined local hopes when she defeated FANG Yuting, 6-2. Another Korean, CHOI Hy-eonju, shot against USA’s Miranda LEEK for 3rd place. The 19-year old American was consistent in her game, but her opponent was even more so, affording her a straightforward victory, 6-0.

On the morning of 15 April, the world’s top nation in compound, USA, entered the three team gold matches as the favourite. The American athletes won unquestionable victories in the men’s and women’s events. They were stopped from a hat-trick, however, by the French mixed double.

On the men’s side, the two highest seeded teams, USA (1) and France (2) worked things out to meet up for gold in Shanghai. Dave COUSINS, Reo WILDE and Braden GELLENTHIEN could have tied the record of 239 that they set one year earlier at the World Cham-pionships in Turin, but GELLENTHIEN released a 9 with the last

Team USA

˚Compound Women Team: 1. USA, 2. Russia, 3. Italy

Compound Women Individual: 1. Marcella TONIOLI (ITA), 2. Albina LOGINOVA (RUS), 3. Diane WATSON (USA)

World Archery Secretary General Tom DIELEN and basketball star YAO Ming


arrow of the match. With yet another fantastic score, however, they won another impressive victory, 238-229, over Dominique GENET, Christophe DOUSSOT and Pierre-Julien DELOCHE! The Italian team of Herian BOCCALI, Luigi DRAGONI and Sergio PAGNI set a new national record in their first elimination match with 237 points. Unfortunately, they suffered from the gusty wind that blew over the finals’ field and let victory go: 226-224 in favour of Venezuela’s Leandro ROJAS, Maico GOMEZ and Gabriel OLIFEROW.

The women’s team final will go down as a classic in compound archery! It was indeed the 12th encounter between the USA and

Russia since 2006. The reigning individual world champion Albina LOGINOVA, with Natalia AVDEEVA and newcomer Polina NIKITINA could not find the right pace against Jamie VAN NATTA, Christie COLIN and Erika ANSCHUTZ. The Americans were victorious, with a 224-218 result! Laura LONGO, Anastasia ANASTASIO and Mar-cella TONIOLI from Italy were a cut above in their 3rd place match and clinched an easy victory, 230-217, against India’s Lily Chanu P., PARVEENA and Jyothi V. SUREKHA, who, at 16, was the young-est competitor in Shanghai.

Recurve Women Individual: 1. KI Bo Bae (KOR), 2. FANG Yuting (CHN), 3. CHOI Hyeonju (KOR)

Award ceremony

Recurve Men Individual: 1. Brady ELLISON (USA), 2. Dmytro HRACHOV (UKR), 3. CHENG Chu Sian (MAS)

Compound Men Team: 1. USA, 2. France, 3. VenezuelaReo WILDE (USA), Compound Men Individual winner,

with Ricardo FIERRO (MEX) and Dominique GENET (FRA)

World Archery First Vice President Mario SCARZELLA and Vice President Sanguan KOSAVINTA


In the mixed team event, the French pair of Dominique GENET and Pascale LEBECQUE trailed by four points half-way through the match, but they managed to reverse the score and win by a whisker: 153-152 against the No. 1 seeded double of Reo WILDE and Jamie VAN NATTA (USA). The Mexicans Julio Ricardo FIERRO and Linda OCHOA, who beat the world champion pair of Italy in the quarterfinal, fought against the No. 2 seeded team of Duncan BUSBY and Danielle BROWN (GBR) for 3rd place. In a close match the British double finally came out victorious 150-149.

In the afternoon, the mixed team world champion 2011 from Italy, Marcella TONIOLI, defeated the reigning individual world

champion from Russia, Albina LOGINOVA, in the women’s indi-vidual gold final, 143-140. The Italian clinched her second World Cup victory after Stage 3 in Ogden last year. The American Diane WATSON beat the British para-archer Danielle BROWN for 3rd place after a tie-breaker (143-143/9-8).

On the men’s side, the top-seeded archer Reo WILDE (USA) had a straightforward victory 147-138 over the surprising Mexican Ju-lio Ricardo FIERRO (No. 26 seed). In a very close encounter, Domi-nique GENET (FRA) won the 3rd place match against his teammate Pierre Julien DELOCHE with a score of 147-146.

Pascale LEBECQUE and Dominique GENET (FRA), Compound Mixed Team winners

Erika ANSCHUTZ, Christie COLIN and Jamie VAN NATTA (USA), Compound Women Team winners

Dave COUSINS, Braden GELLENTHIEN and Reo WILDE (USA), Compound Men Team winners

Recurve Women Team: 1. Korea, 2. India, 3. China

CHANG Hye Jin, KI Bo Bae and LEE Sung Jin (KOR), Recurve Women Team winners

Recurve Men Team: 1. USA, 2. France, 3. Ukraine

Finals field


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Team GB gets ready for Olympic Games with World Cup Win

Text: Ludivine MAITRE WICKIPhotos: Dean ALBERGA

ntalya hosted its seventh edition of a World Cup stage from 1-6 May 2012. With 388 ath-letes (211 men and 177 women), this was the largest event ever.

Qualifications took place on Wednesday, 2 May. The start of the competition saw three new world re-cords! IM Dong-Hyun (KOR) had an impressive finish with a total of 696 after 72 arrows in the men’s indi-vidual event. Together with his teammates OH Jin Hyek and KIM Woojin, he also set a new team world record with a score of 2069 points. Furthermore, the 20-year old Spaniard Juan I. RODRIGUEZ beat the 70m Round junior previously-best score with 682 points.

The No. 1 in the world Brady ELLISON scored 690, establishing a new U.S. national record. The American finished runner-up of the qualifications. The Italian Mauro NESPOLI also set a national record with his 689 points that offered him 3rd place.

All individual finals at the Archery World Cup Stage 2 were competed on a beautiful, windy venue, the beach of Antalya, on Saturday 5 May. All top-seeded competitors in each of the four categories reached the final. Besides the exception of the Ko-rean LEE Sung Jin in recurve women, they all also clinched victory!

Reo WILDE (USA), Compound Men Individual winner Deepika KUMARI (IND), Recurve Women Individual winnerAlbina LOGINOVA (RUS), Compound Women Individual winner


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 and se-nior runner-up Deepika KUMARI (IND), and lost to her 6-4. The archer from Chinese Taipei LIN Chia-En won 3rd place over the Chinese XU Jin.

In recurve men, in the absence of the world No. 1 Brady EL-LISON (USA) who was defeated in an early round, the No. 1 seed of the competition and world record holder for the 70m Round IM Dong Hyun (KOR) clinched victory 6-4 over Markiyan IVASHKO (UKR). 3rd place was taken by another Korean, the world champion KIM Woojin, who defeated his fellow countryman KIM Bubmin.

Reo WILDE and Erika ANSCHUTZ (USA), Compound Mixed Team winners

Reo WILDE (USA) and Braden GELLENTHIEN (USA), Compound Men Individual finalistsCompound Mixed Team: 1. USA, 2. Italy, 3. Great Britain


In the compound men’s category, another top-seeded competi-tor had reached the final. The American Reo WILDE, recent indoor world champion, beat his teammate Braden GELLENTHIEN 148-145. Dominique GENET (FRA) finished 3rd after he defeated Paul TISCHER (GER) in a close match, 143-142.

The compound women world champion and No. 1 seed, Albina LOGINOVA (RUS), defeated the newcomer in the German national team Kristina BERGER, who competed in her very first World Cup event! Marcella TONIOLI (ITA), winner of the first World Cup of the year three weeks ago, took revenge over Jamie VAN NATTA (USA) and won the bronze medal match. The American had won her first face-to-face encounter at the Shanghai World Cup in September.

The team finals in the four international categories were con-tested in the afternoon of Sunday 6 May. Competing in two other finals (men’s team and mixed team) after he won the individual competition on Saturday, the top-seeded compound competitor Reo WILDE (USA) scored a hat trick this year in Antalya.

Erika ANSCHUTZ and teammates Jamie VAN NATTA and Christie COLIN (USA), Compound Women Team winners

Compound Men Individual: 1. Reo WILDE (USA), 2. Braden GELLENTHIEN (USA), 3. Dominique GENET (FRA)

Compound Women Individual: 1. Albina LOGINOVA (RUS), 2. Kristina BERGER (GER), 3. Marcella TONIOLI (ITA)

IM Dong Hyun (KOR), Recurve Men Individual winner

Recurve Mixed Team: 1. Korea, 2. Italy, 3. Mexico

Natalia VALEEVA and Mauro NESPOLI (ITA), Recurve Mixed Team 2nd place


Teamed up with Dave COUSINS and Braden GELLENTHIEN, WILDE beat the Danish team of Martin DAMSBO, Torben JOHAN-NESSEN and Patrick LAURSEN after a shoot-off (231-231/29-27). Third place in the compound men’s team event was taken by the Netherlands with Ruben BLEYENDAAL, Mike SCHLOESSER and Peter ELZINGA who easily defeated the Italians Herian BOCCALI, Luigi DRAGONI and Sergio PAGNI, 230-222.

In mixed team, WILDE was paired with Erika ANSCHUTZ (photo) and the two had won the upper hand over the Italians Sergio PAGNI and Marcella TONIOLI only by a whisker, 143-142. The match for 3rd place that was shot on Friday saw the pair of Duncan BUSBY and Andrea GALES beat Paul TITSCHER and Kristina BERGER from Ger-many, 143-142. Friday’s highlight was the world record set by the U.S. pair in compound: Reo WILDE and Erika ANSCHUTZ reached 159 points out of 160 in their semi-final against Great Britain.

On the female side of the compound, Team USA, made up of Erika ANSCHUTZ, Christie COLIN and Jamie VAN NATTA, de-

Simon TERRY, Alan WILLS and Larry GODFREY (GBR), Recurve Men Team winners

Compound Women Individual: 1. Albina LOGINOVA (RUS), 2. Kristina BERGER (GER), 3. Marcella TONIOLI (ITA)

Recurve Men Team: 1. Great Britain, 2. India, 3. Korea

Reo WILDE, Dave COUSINS and Braden GELLENTHIEN (USA), Compound Men Team winners

Great Britain shooting for victory!

World Archery Secretary General Tom DIELEN, Turkish Archery Federation President Abdullah TOPALOGLU and World Archery President Prof Dr Ugur ERDENER


feated the Italians Anastasia ANASTASIO, Laura LONGO and Mar-cella TONIOLI for 1st place, 224-223. The German ladies Kristina BERGER, Melanie MIKALA and Andrea WEIHE finished 3rd with a victory clinched after a tie-break (223-223/30-29). They had the upper hand over the Russian team led by the world champion and individual winner in this stage, Albina LOGINOVA, teamed up with Natalia AVDEEVA and Viktoria BALZHANOVA.

In recurve, the men’s team competition saw the No. 7-seeded British team of Laurence GODFREY, Simon TERRY and Alan WILLS, win against India before their last arrow was shot, 222-211. Rahul BANERJEE, Tarundeep RAI and Jayanta TALUKDAR did not repeat their performance in the semifinal, and defeated the top-seeded

team of the USA. Third place went to Korea’s IM Dong Hyun, KIM Bubmin and OH Jin Hyek, who had the upper hand over France’s Gael PREVOST, Thomas FAUCHERON and Romain GIROUILLE, 225-222.

The recurve mixed team competition was won by the Korean pair of IM Dong Hyun and LEE Sung Jin by the smallest possible margin, 148-147, against the Italians Mauro NESPOLI and Natalia VALEEVA. The 3rd place match was already shot on Friday right af-ter the semi-finals. It was a hard-fought contest between the pairs of Luis Eduardo VELEZ/Alejandra VALENCIA (MEX/7) and Romain GIROUILLE/Berengere SCHUH (FRA/12), but the Mexicans finally prevailed 148-147.

Albina LOGINOVA (RUS) and Kristina BERGER (GER), Compound Women Individual finalists

Recurve Women Individual: 1. Deepika KUMARI (IND), 2. LEE Sung Jin (KOR), 3. Lin Chia-En (TPE)

Recurve Women Team: 4th place for Mexico

KI Bo Bae and teammates CHOI Hyeonju and LEE Sung Jin (KOR), Recurve Women Team winners

Recurve Men Individual: 1. IM Dong Hyun (KOR), 2. Markiyan IVASHKO (UKR), 3. KIM Woojin (KOR)

Recurve Women Team: 1. Korea, 2. Chinese Taipei, 3. China


Finals field on Antalya beach


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Reo WILDE makes history at Ogden World Cup

Text: Didier MIEVILLEScott EINSMANN

Michael PEARTPhotos: Dean ALBERGA

he Ogden World Cup Stage 3 that ran from 18-24 June 2012 gathered an impressive participation: a total of 383 athletes from 66 countries went to the United States to com-pete in the World Cup. The participants aimed to qualify for the World Cup Final in Tokyo, and also for the 2012 Olympic Games through the Final Olympic Qualification Tournament for teams and individuals.

Archers took to the field on Tuesday, 19 June, for the qualification rounds that consisted of 72 arrows.

The recurve men started the morning session and were followed by the recurve women and all of the compound archers in early afternoon.

After 72 arrows in the recurve men’s qualifica-tions, Khairul Anuar MOHAMAD (MAS), the No. 5 ranked archer in the world, climbed to first place with 668 points. Bato TSYNGUEV (RUS) led the first half of the competition, and continued to shoot well. He also finished with a 668, but as he shot fewer 10s than MOHAMAD, he came in second. Mi-

Jamie VAN NATTA (USA) Tension: Mariana AVITIA (MEX) Larry GODFREY (GBR) on eliminations field


lad VAZIRI TEYMOORLOOEI (IRI) finished third with 666 points. In the team events, the leaders also switched places throughout the Cup. USA ascended into first place with a 1957. Rounding out the top three were Malaysia with 1950 points and Mexico with 1948 points.

At the conclusion of the 72-arrow qualification round, Ksenia PEROVA (RUS) finished in first place by shooting a 666. Mariana AVITIA (MEX), who led at 36 arrows, fell to second place with a 663. The world and Pan American champion Denisse Astrid VAN LAMOEN (CHI) finished in third place with 662 points. The women’s team rankings were the same after 36 and 72 arrows: Mexico in first with 1986 points, Russia in second with 1953 points and Japan in third with 1940 points.

On the compound men’s side, the current world champion Christopher PERKINS (CAN) stole the lead from the world No. 2 ranked archer Braden GELLENTHIEN (USA) by shooting a 707 to the American’s 705. Pierre JULIEN DELOCHE (FRA) climbed from fifth place after 36 arrows to third by shooting a total of 705 points. In the team ranking, the USA remained in the lead, shooting a 2107. They were trailed by El Salvador and Canada, who both earned 2091 points.

Compound women’s world No. 3 ranked archer Erika AN-SCHUTZ (USA) was in first place with 350 points at the halfway mark. Closely behind her was world No. 4 Jamie VAN NATTA (USA) with 349 points. Linda OCHOA (MEX) held third place with 346

Lindquist Baseball Field that hosted for the third year the finals of Ogden World Cup Stage

Larry GODFREY (GBR) on final field Magali FOULON (ESP)


points. After 72 arrows, ANSCHUTZ held her lead with 697 points and was trailed by OCHOA and the No. 1 ranked archer Albina LOGINOVA, both with 690 points. USA’s compound domination continued in the women’s division with the American women lead-ing the field with 2066 points. Italy and Russia followed them with 2045 points and 2036 points, respectively.

In the mixed team events, Russia finished first in recurve qualifi-cations ahead of Mexico and the USA. In mixed compound, the USA topped qualifications ahead of Mexico and Italy.

Mixed team eliminations and bronze medal matches followed the qualifications on 19 June. Individual eliminations were held on 20 June and team eliminations took place in the morning of 21 June. The afternoon of the 21st was devoted to the Final Olympic Qualification Tournament (FQT) for teams. The FQT for individuals was held the following day, Friday, 22 June. The competitions in Ogden culminated with the compound finals on Saturday and all recurve finals on Sunday.

In compound, Reo WILDE (USA/4) made history in Ogden. He not only won the three stages of the Archery World Cup 2012, but he also continued his four-win streak that included a victory in the last leg of the 2011 circuit in Shanghai. He is also the first archer to have won in the four cities that have hosted the most World Cups (Ogden, Shanghai, Antalya and Porec). Currently ranked first in the world ranking, WILDE is also the reigning indoor world cham-pion. In Ogden, however, it was not easy for WILDE in the final against Peter ELZINGA (NED/10): his victory was a slight 145-144. For third place, the No. 3 seeded archer Pierre Julien DELOCHE

The arrow has just left!

Jamie VAN NATTA (USA) vs Christie COLIN (USA)

Peter ELZINGA (NED)

Compound mixed team final ...

Luis ALVAREZ (MEX) on eliminations field


(FRA) easily defeated the reigning World Champion and No. 1 seed Christopher PERKINS (CAN) by 146-139.

On the women’s side, American teammates Christie COLIN (USA/8) and Jamie VAN NATTA (USA/6) ended up in a shoot-off to decide the winner, 140-140. VAN NATTA shot an 8 as her tiebreak arrow. Her timing was a little slow, which could have caused the low arrow. COLIN shot a 9 to win. Kristina BERGER (GER/5) won her 3rd place match 147-140 over Laura LONGO (ITA/7).

The top seeded men’s team, the USA, had a clear advantage entering the final against the No. 3 seeded Canada. Indeed, the two teams had met three times before in gold medal matches at the World Cup, and the USA had won all three matches. In Ogden, the Canadians could not recover from a bad start, and despite a perfect last end, the USA only needed to hit their last arrow to win. Braden GELLENTHIEN clinched the match with a 10, securing a victory for USA 233-224. Mexico (4) upset El Salvador (2) 222-216 for third place.

On the women’s side, the Americans Erika ANSCHUTZ, Christie COLIN and Jamie VAN NATTA, who were No. 1 seeds in Ogden and reigning World Champions, won the first two World Cup team events of the season in Shanghai and Antalya. Looking for a hat-trick this season, they faced the Russians (3), who could count on the experienced and talented Albina LOGINOVA, 2009 and 2011 world champion and 2010 World Cup winner, to crush the Ameri-can’s dreams. The two teams were tied at 169 before the final end, and Russia took a 1-point lead with three arrows remaining. While the USA shot three low 9s to end the match, Russia scored

Luis ALVAREZ (MEX) on finals field

Great Britain recurve men’s team are ready for the Olympic Games

Team Venezuela had a fine week in Ogden

Russia compound women’s team... victory for Russia

Team Venezuela in the final field


10-9 and needed only an 8 to win. LOGINOVA did not shake and clinched victory with a 9 (225-223). The match for third place was between Venezuela (5) and Italy (2) and ended up with a victory for the lower seeded South Americans, 228-225.

To earn a spot in the compound mixed team final match, the No. 9 seeded pair from the Netherlands upset the top seeded USA in the quarterfinal. Seeded No. 11, Russia defeated the No. 3 (Italy) and No. 2 (Mexico) in the previous rounds. The Dutch Irina MAR-KOVIC/Peter ELZINGA and the Russians Albina LOGINOVA/Dmitry KOZHIN could not make a decision and ended up in a shoot-off at

152-152. ELZINGA’s tiebreaker arrow was a 9 and MARKOVIC’s was a spider (X10), but their opponents shot two X10s for the win (20-19). For third place, the pair Kristina BERGER/Paul TITSCHER (GER/5) got the upper hand over Linda OCHOA/Julio Ricardo FI-ERRO (MEX/2), 155-150.

On Sunday, 24 June, Luis ALVAREZ (MEX) put on an impres-sive show in the recurve men’s final. His victory offered him a trip to the World Cup Final in Tokyo at just 21 years of age. Kristina TIMOFEEVA (RUS) did even better. At 19 years of age, she won the individual and team categories on the women’s side.

USA vs. Canada

World champion Christopher PERKINS (CAN) shakes hands with Pierre Julien DELOCHE (FRA)

Eliminations field at the Spike Exhibition Centre at the feed of the Rockies Mountains

Christie COLIN (USA) is the winner!


Ranked No. 92 in the world, ALVAREZ is a relative newcomer to the international scene. Seeded No. 12 in Ogden, the Mexican faced Laurence GODFREY (GBR), No. 16 in the world and No. 6 seed. Neither of them had ever won an individual gold medal at a World Cup event. In this match, ALVAREZ never let GODFREY in. The Briton just missed out by one point in each set to lose 6-0.

ALVAREZ and GODFREY will both be heading off to the World Cup Final in September. In a real nail biting third place match between Gael PREVOST (FRA/16) and Tarundeep RAI (IND/34), the French-man shot the cross out to win 6-5 in a fitting end to a great match in World Cup history!

In recurve women, both Jennifer NICHOLS (USA/9) and Kristina

“So close” says Pierre Julien DELOCHE (FRA) after the semifinal shoot-off Denise PARKER, CEO of USA Archery Women’s recurve podium

Eliminations field at the Spike Exhibition Centre at the feed of the Rockies Mountains


TIMOFEEVA (RUS/27) were looking for their first World Cup vic-tory. TIMOFEEVA recently moved to the adult ranks from the junior division, where she became the World Indoor Champion earlier in 2012. NICHOLS has considerably more experience, having com-peted internationally since 2003 and as a member of the US team that won the FQT earlier in the week. TIMOFEEVA led 4-0 after two sets, and NICHOLS came back at 4-2 after three. The American tried to avoid a loss by shooting a 9-9-9, but TIMOFEEVA had a great set with 10-10-9 to clinch victory 6-2. Alejandra VALENCIA (MEX/4) never let up and thumped a 6-0 win over Magali FOULON (ESP/74), who had a surprise appearance in the third place match.

The recurve men’s team final between the USA (No. 1) and India (No. 7) was a great match from start to finish with no team pull-ing ahead. The last end was very windy, and both teams dropped

points to end on a tie (213-213). The USA shot a great 28 to win in the shoot-off against India’s 27. In the third place match, the British boys once again showed that they are a world-class force and that their gold medal at the last leg in Antalya was no fluke. They did not even have to shoot their last arrow to win 223-210 over the Italians.

The best seeded compound women’s teams, Mexico (1) and Russia (2) faced against each other for victory. The Mexicans had a fantastic performance all week and won their place at the Olympic Games. In the Ogden World Cup final match, however, they never found their rhythm and Russia steamed ahead, 204-195. For third place, USA (4) shot a great match to come back from a bad start (44-54 in the first end). That miss with Miranda LEEK’s first shot would have normally ended the match before it started, but with great shooting, the American ladies turned it around to claim a great bronze medal win, 206-204, over Germany (6).

In the mixed team event, the No. 3 seeded pair from the USA smashed the top seeded team Russia by 13 points (150-137). The four-time Olympian Jennifer NICHOLS—heading off her fifth Olympic Games in London—and No. 1 ranked archer in the world, Brady ELLISON, pulled ahead on the first end and never looked back at their opponents Ksenia PEROVA and Bato TSYNGUEV. This world-class show was spectacular for the home crowd to watch. In the third place match, the No. 7 double, Lisa UNRUH and Camilo MAYR from Germany, beat the No. 4 seeded team, Hideki KIKUCHI and Kaori KAWANAKA of Japan, in a close match, 145-144.

Jennifer NICHOLS and Brady ELLISON (USA) at the Mixed Double

Gael PREVOST (FRA) is going to Tokyo

Reo WILDE with brother Logan

American women’s recuvre team is pumped up


Women’s recurve team podium: Mexico- Russia - USA

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The Hibiya Park will host the world Cup Final in 2012

World Cup Final 2012 in Tokyo

Text: Didier MIEVILLEPhotos: Dean ALBERGA

he World Cup Final 2012 will take place on

22-23 September at the Hibiya Park in Tokyo, near the Imperial Palace, with the 32 best ath-letes of the season.

This will be the 7th edition of the World Cup Final which showcases at its best the event concept of World Archery! Intense competitions in some of the world’s most spectacular places! For instance, the first Final was organised in the heart of the Maya-pan Pyramids in Mexico in 2006. It was followed by Dubai in 2007, where World Archery built a 70-meter floating platform on the Madinat Jumeirah Lake with the famous 7-star hotel Burj Al Arab in the back-ground. The 2008 World Cup Final was hosted in the Olympic Capital, Lausanne, and the 2009 edition “on” the famous Nyhavn Canal in wonderful Copenhagen. The Gardens of Edinburgh (GBR) and the Bosphorus shore of Istanbul (TUR) completed the hosts line-up of the World Cup Final in the last two years.

The programme of the Final consists of compact sessions over two days where the top archers of the season pit themselves in exciting head-to-head

matches. In Tokyo, the compound division will play on Saturday 22 September and the recurve one on Sunday 23 September. The athletes shoot quarter-finals in the morning, followed by semifinals and finals in the afternoon. These are single elimination matches; there is no second chance, despite com-ing this far. At the end of the day, the winner is crown as the best archer of the season!

The top 7 individuals (with a maximum of two per countries) in each category qualify to the Final based on the points they earned at the World Cup stages in 2012. They were organised in Shanghai, Antalya, Turkey, and the American town of Ogden near the Rockies Mountains. To complete the line-ups, the Japanese hosts will designate one wild card per caterogy! The Japanese mixed teams will also play against the top pairs of the world in mixed double finals. This year, both the American recurve and compound mixed doubles will play against Japan.

Based on the Archery World Cup rankings, here are the individual quarterfinalists in Tokyo!


Tokyo, here we go!

Recurve Men

Gael PREVOST (FRA)/No. 7 vs Dmytro HRACHOV (UKR)/No. 2

Larry GODFREY (GBR)/No. 3 vs KIM Woojin (KOR)/No. 6

Luis ALVAREZ (MEX)/No. 5 vs Brady ELLISON (USA)/No. 4

IM Dong Hyun (KOR)/No. 1 vs Wild Card from Japan/No. 8

Recurve Women

XU Jing (CHN)/No. 7 vs KI Bo Bae (KOR)/No. 2

CHOI Hyeonju (KOR)/No. 3 vs Jennifer NICHOLS (USA)/No. 6

FANG Yuting (CHN)/No. 5 vs Kristina TIMOFEEVA (RUS)/No. 4

Deepika KUMARI (IND)/No. 1 vs Wild Card from Japan/No. 8

Compound Men

Paul TITSCHER (GER)/No. 7 vs Braden GELLETHIEN (USA)/No. 2

Dominique GENET (FRA)/No. 3 vs Julio Ricardo FIERRO (MEX)/No. 6

Peter ELZINGA (NED)/No. 5 vs Pierre Julien DELOCHE (FRA)/No. 4

Reo WILDE (USA)/No. 1 vs Naoto ANJI (JPN)/No. 8

Compound Women

Olga BOSCH (VEN)/No. 7 vs Marcella TONIOLI (ITA)/No. 2

Christie COLIN (USA)/No. 3 vs Laura LONGO (ITA)/No. 6

Jamie VAN NATTA (USA)/No. 5 vs Kristina BERGER (GER)/No. 4

Albina LOGINOVA (RUS)/No. 1 vs Yumiko HONDA (JPN)/No. 8


World Cup Finals

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2008

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2006

2009

2010

World Cup Final 2006 in Merida

World Cup Final 2008 in Lausanne

World Cup Final 2010 in Edinburgh World Cup Final 2011 in Istanbul

World Cup Final 2009 in Copenhagen

World Cup Final 2007 in Dubai

2012 Tokyo, here we go


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VALEEVA Wins her Fifth and WILDE his Third Individual Indoor World Title in Vegas



he World Archery Indoor Championships took place from 5-9 February 2012, followed by the Stage 3 and the Final of the Indoor Ar-chery World Cup on 10-11 February. Archers from 36 countries competed in Las Vegas, USA to try their luck at this game of precision, with many of the world’s superstars shooting for world championship titles.

All finals in the junior and senior categories were held on Thursday, 9 February at the South Point Ho-tel and Casino of Las Vegas. In the individual com-

petition, Natalia VALEEVA (ITA) won her fifth individ-ual indoor title and Reo WILDE (USA) his third. The champions had the honour of receiving their medals from the hands of the famous tennis champion An-dre AGASSI (USA).

Jake KAMINSKI (USA) created a sensation when he defeated teammate and world number one Brady ELLISON to advance to the recurve men’s final in his first World Indoor Champion-ships. He faced Marco GALIAZZO (ITA) who was indoor world junior champion back in 2001 and

Andre AGASSI gives the winners’ Longines watch to Marco GALIAZZO (ITA)

Natalia VALEEVA (ITA), Recurve Women Individual world champion

Jake KAMINSKI (USA)


team champion in 2003 and 2005. The Italian also won the Olympic title in 2004 and the World Cup Final in 2009. KAMIN-SKI and GALIAZZO were back to back at 5-5. In the shoot-off, KAMINSKI shot a 9. GALIAZZO did not falter under pressure and released a 10: gold medal for the Italian. ELLISON left no chance to his opponent Heribert DORNHOFER (AUT) for the bronze med-al, shooting nine 10s in a row for a victory 6-0.

On the women’s side, Natalia VALEEVA (ITA) had become indoor world champion back in 1992. She was a silver medallist as well as team champion at the last World Indoor Championships in 2009. The 2012 championships were the first indoor world champion-ships for her 18-year-old opponent Miranda LEEK (USA). The two

ladies were tied at 4-4 with one set to go. VALEEVA then shot 10-9-10, and LEEK 10-9-9, the last arrow being just outside of the 10 ring. Victory 6-4 and gold medal for VALEEVA, 20 years after her first indoor world title! Ksenia PEROVA (RUS) took the bronze medal 7-1 over Naomi FOLKARD (GBR).

The compound men’s gold medal final featured two archers who have both won double gold medals (team and individual) at indoor world championships in the past. Jimmy BUTTS (USA) did so in Havana in 1999, competing at the time on the same team as Dee WILDE, father of Reo WILDE (USA). WILDE won this match against his countryman 7-3. This win provided WILDE with yet an-other double victory (individual and team) in addition to those from

Marco GALIAZZO (ITA), Recurve Men Individual world champion

Recurve Women Team: 1. USA, 2. Japan, 3. ItalyMiranda LEEK (USA), Recurve Women Individual silver medallist


2003 and 2005. Julio Ricardo FIERRO (MEX) defeated Guillaume RUBBEN (FRA) 6-4 for bronze.

In the compound women’s category, both finalists were compet-ing in their first world indoor championships. Viktoria BALZHANOVA (RUS) was 2010 European outdoor champion. The 20-year-old Inge VAN CASPEL (NED) was junior world champion in 2009 and runner-up in 2011. After an indecisive match, the Russian clinched victory 6-4 to become the new world champion. The bronze medal went to Linda OCHOA (MEX), who beat Christie COLIN (USA) 6-4.

Following the visit of Longines Ambassador Andre AGASSI to the World Archery Indoor Championships finals where he present-ed the new champions with Longines watches, a strong delegation of archers went to the Andre AGASSI College Preparatory Academy of Las Vegas to give an initiation in archery to young attendees. Among them the No. 1 archer in the world, Brady ELLISON (USA), and no fewer than three Olympic medallists gave an archery initia-tion to more than 200 young students on 11 February.

ELLISON demonstrated his skills by shooting at balloons placed on targets about 20 yards away. He also told the children about

Recurve Men Team: 1. USA, 2. Russia, 3. Ukraine

Recurve Men Individual medallists Marco GALIAZZO (ITA), Brady ELLISON (USA) and Jake KAMINSKI (USA) with World Archery First Vice President Mario SCARZELLA, US Archery CEO Denise PARKER, tennis champion Andre AGASSI

and World Archery Events Director Juan Carlos HOLGADO

Recurve Men Team bronze medal match: Ukraine v Mexico

Compound Women Team: 1. USA, 2. Russia, 3. Great Britain

Recurve Women Team world champions Brandi DELOACH, Jennifer NICHOLS and Miranda LEEK (USA), with coach

Chris WHITE, Liam GRIMWOOK and Duncan BUSBY (GBR), Compound Men Team bronze medallists


why he picked up archery and how he became so successful. The students then had a chance to shoot arrows under the guidance of certified instructors/coaches from USA Archery. They also received advice of the four-time Olympic champion KIM Soo-Nyung (KOR), the 1992 team Olympic champion Juan Carlos HOLGADO (ESP) and the 1988 Olympic medallist Denise PARKER (USA), who now occupy various roles in archery management.

AGASSI, an Olympic gold medallist and eight-time Grand Slam single champion, continued his efforts in the public sector after his retirement in 2006 by founding the Andre AGASSI Foundation for Education, which has raised over 177 million for undeserved youth in the greater Las Vegas area. The Andre AGASSI College Prepara-tory Academy of Las Vegas is a tuition-free public charter school for children in the historical West Las Vegas community.

World Archery would like to thank Longines, an official archery sponsor and supporter of AGASSI’s foundation. Both on the field of play and in the school yard, archery and Longines combine “preci-sion and elegance as an attitude”.

Complete results and reviews of the Las Vegas 2012 World Ar-chery Indoor Championships can be found on www.worldarchery.org.

Compound Men Team: 1. USA, 2. France, 3. Great Britain

Erika ANSCHUTZ, Tristan SKARVAN and Christie COLIN (USA), Compound Women Team world champions

Compound Junior Women Team: 1. Russia, 2. USA, 3. Croatia

Juan Carlos HOLGADO, Bruce CULL, Andre AGASSI and Greg EASTON with some young athletes

Recurve Junior Women Team: 1. Ukraine, 2. Russia, 3. USA


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Reo WILDE (USA), Compound Men champion

WILDE Again at Indoor World Cup in Vegas



tage 3 and the Final of the Indoor Archery

World Cup were held on 10-11 February 2012 as part of the NFAA World Archery Festival in Las Vegas. In compound men, Reo WILDE (USA) added one more crown to his record — or, more accurately, kept the Indoor World Cup crown that he won in 2011. Joana CHESSE (FRA) won in compound women and Ksenia PEROVA (RUS) won in recurve women. Brady ELLISON (USA) clinched the Indoor World Cup Final after winning the last two Outdoor World Cup Finals.

The top 16 indoor athletes of each category from the Stages in Singapore, Nimes and Las Vegas took on the Equestrian Centre at the South Point Casi-no for the Indoor World Cup Final. Best of 5 sets matches (three arrows per set) were shot from 1/8 eliminations to the final match.

In recurve men, the No. 1 in the world Brady EL-LISON (USA) had a clean sheet — all 10s, giving him 6-0 twice — in the first two rounds before meeting Thomas AUBERT (FRA) in the semifinal. Jake KA-MINSKI (USA) defeated Sebastian ROHRBERG (GER), the 2007 indoor world champion, in the quarterfinal to reach the semifinal against Matteo FISSORE (ITA). In the semis, ELLISON beat AUBERT and KAMINSKI defeated FISSORE by the same score: 6-2. ELLISON then went on to beat KAMINSKI 6-4 and clinch the Indoor World Cup title! For 3rd place, FISSORE de-feated AUBERT 6-4.

In the semifinals on the women’s side, Lisa UN-RUH (GER) met with Naomi FOLKARD (GBR), while the bronze medallist from the Indoor World Cham-pionships 2012 Ksenia PEROVA (RUS) faced the Indoor World Cup defender Louise LAURSEN (DEN). FOLKARD beat UNRUH 6-4, while PEROVA defeated

Jake KAMINSKI (USA), Recurve Men silver medallistRecurve Women gold medal final: Ksenia PEROVA (RUS) v Naomi FOLKARD (GBR)


LAURSEN 6-2. The final was the rematch of the bronze medal match at the Indoor Worlds three days before. PEROVA scored eight 10s out of 12 arrows to take the match 6-2! Nimes stage winner UNRUH took 3rd place in Vegas, defeating LAURSEN 6-2.

In the compound men’s category, it was not a surprise to have all-American semifinals: Reo WILDE versus Dave COUSINS and Braden GELLENTHIEN versus Ben CLELAND. CLELAND managed to force GELLENTHIEN to a shoot-off. However, once there, his op-ponent proved more solid and found a 10, while CLELAND shot a 9. In the other semifinal, WILDE got the best of COUSINS, 7-3.

The gold medal match between WILDE and GELLENTHIEN was a face-off between more than a dozen gold World Championships medals. WILDE gave his teammate no chances and secured his fate with a 6-2 victory! The bronze final was a very tight match between CLELAND and COUSINS. CLELAND was perfect in the last set to win 6-4.

There was an all-French quarterfinal in compound women between Sandrine VANDIONANT and Pascal LEBECQUE. VANDIO-NANT won 6-4 and joined Naomi JONES (GBR), Joanna CHESSE (FRA) and Camilla SOEMOD (DEN) in the semifinals. VANDIONANT

The Equestrian Centre at South Point Casino, venue for the Indoor World Cup Final

Joanna CHESSE (FRA)Brady ELLISON (USA) and Jake KAMINSKI (USA)


defeated JONES 7-3, while CHESSE beat SOEMOD 6-4, resulting in an all-French gold final. VANDIONANT and CHESSE were back to back and reached a shoot-off at 5-5. While VANDIONANT scored 9, CHESSE killed the spider with her arrow (bull’s eye) for gold! JONES took bronze after a shoot-off against SOEMOD in which

both archers scored 9, but JONES’s success came from her arrow being the closest to the centre.

Complete results and reviews of the Indoor World Cup events can be found at www.worldarchery.org.

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is taking off. This project will multiply the op-portunities for archery coaching candidates to be trained properly. Following a trial that took place in Medellin, Colombia from 10-16 December 2008, a major project was proposed to European Member Associations and imple-mented in 2011 and 2012. This project is a large-scale collaboration between World Ar-chery Europe (formerly EMAU), World Archery, Olympic Solidarity, European National Olym-pic Committees, the French National Olympic Committee and the French Archery Federation.

The objective of this project is to teach archery coaches who have solid level 2 or 3 experience how to train emerging level 1 and level 2 coaches. The desired outcome would be an increased capacity to train more level 1 and 2 archery coaches in Europe in the near future.

The programme started more than a year ago (28 February – 5 April 2011) with a one-week course that was attended by fourteen coaches from eleven European countries. The participants learned how to prepare and conduct a level 1 archery coaching course. After this first course, the candidates had to independently prepare, and conduct at least one level 1 coaching course, and then report on it. Nine participants completed these requirements and thereby became eligible to attend the second course that took place from 22 to 26 May 2012. The eligible graduates were Anu UUSMAA (EST), Carlos FREITAS (POR), Constantine YANTSIOS (GRE), Damir KOLAREK (CRO), Elena GHEORGHITA (ROM), Kristin NESTOR-ALVISTE (EST), Miljko COLOVIC (SRB), Stanislav TROYEPOLSKIY (ISR) and Urte PAULUS (AUT).

Additionally, the legendary Korean female archer Mrs KIM Soo-Nyung also attended the 2012 course


as an observer. She participated within the framework of her train-ing to contribute later to the development of the archery in Asia. This experience provided her and the federations with insight into current development activities.

The participants group was very cohesive. All participants were successfully evaluated by the Trainers and received the World Ar-chery Europe Certificate, which stated that they are now certified as a “Level 1 and 2 World Archery Europe Coaching Course Conductor”.

Both the 2011 and 2012 above mentioned World Archery Eu-rope Coaching Courses took place at the archery centre of Comp-iegne (France). The friendly environment offered excellent training

conditions. The Trainers were Mr Pascal COLMAIRE, World Archery Development and Education Director, and Mr Andre KORLAAR, Ar-chery Expert from the Netherlands.

The World Archery Europe Certificates were handed out to the participants by Mr Philippe BOUCLET, Council Member of World Archery Europe and President of the French Archery Federation, as well as by Mrs Evelyn PAPADOPOULOU, Council Member of World Archery Europe and Chairwoman of its Development and Technical Assistance Committee.

The important benefits of this development project are that the successful graduates can organise and teach level 1 and 2 coach-

World Archery Development and Coaching Director Pascal COLMAIRE in action

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ing courses in their countries and abroad. There will be so more worldwide capacity to train archery coaches by experts who live nearby (same country or neighbouring country) and who share a similar culture and possibly language. The proximity of qualified coaches will also generate lower travel expenses, and should ease the continuing education.

World Archery, with the assistance of the Continental Archery Associations, will mainly:

Train new archery coaching course conductors;Maintain the continuing education of the existing archery

coaching course conductors.

World Archery has already allocated to Mrs Urte PAULUS (AUT) and Mr Carlos FREITAS (POR) the mission of conducting an Olym-pic Solidarity Level 1 Archery Coaching Course in Malawi and Chad, respectively. These two persons are recent graduates of the World Archery Europe Coaching Course Conductors programme.

World Archery is now collaborating with the Asian Archery Fed-eration to extend this project to Asia. The Asian course will be held January 2013 in Bangkok.

Participants of 2012 Coaching Course for Conductors

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Teaching workshop 2

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◆ ‘08 Beijing Olympic & Paralympic Games ◆ ‘10 Youth Olympic Games, Singapore ◆ ’11 European Youth Olympic Festival, Turkey ◆ ‘11 London Archery Classic Olympic Test Event, Great Britain ◆ ’12 London Olympic & Paralympic Games

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

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (International Federations) ◆ ‘07 World Archery Indoor Champ., Turkey ◆ ‘07 World Archery Indoor 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 ◆ ’12 World Archery Indoor Champ., USA

WORLD CUPS (International Federations) ◆ ‘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

Upcoming EVENTS ◆ ‘12 World Archery Field Champ., France ◆ ’12 Archery World Cup Final, Japan ◆ ’13 Indoor Archery World Cup Stages: Singapore, Nimes; Final: USA

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Calendar 2012-2013

4-7 July 2012 World Archery University Championships Cordoba (ESP)

8-13 July 2012 Torneo Batalla de Carabobo Valencia (VEN)

9-14 July 2012 European Grand Prix Sofia (BUL)

10-15 July 2012 World Ranking Tournament “Czech Target 2012” Nove Mesto nad Metuji (CZE)

27 July - 12 août 2012 Olympic Games (Archery: 27 July-3 August) London (GBR)

14-19 August 2012 World Archery Field Championships Val d’Isere (FRA)

29 August - 9 September 2012 Paralympic Games (Para-Archery: 30 August-5 September) London (GBR)

22-23 September 2012 Archery World Cup Final Tokyo (JPN)

24-29 September 2012 Open South American Championships Mar del Plata (ARG)

28 November - 5 December 2012 3rd Asian Grand Prix (IRI)

8-9 December 2012 Indoor World Cup 2012-13 Stage 1 Singapore (SIN)

14-19 May 2013 Archery World Cup Stage 1 Shanghai (CHN)

10-16 June 2013 (TBC) Archery World Cup Stage 2 Antalya (TUR)

20-30 June 2013 Mediterranean Games (Archery: 25-28 June) Mersin (TUR)

9-14 July 2013 Archery World Cup Stage 3 (TBC)

25 July - 4 August 2013 World Games (Compound: 27-28 July; Field Recurve and Barebow: 30 July-1 August) Cali (COL)

(TBC ) Archery World Cup Stage 4 TBC

1-8 September 2013 World Archery Youth Championships Wuxi (CHN)

21-22 September 2013 Archery World Cup Final Paris (FRA)

27-28 September 2013 World Archery Congress Antalya (TUR)

29 September - 6 October 2013 World Archery Championships Antalya (TUR)

8-12 October 2013 (TBC) World Archery 3D Championships Sassari (ITA)

Oct.-Nov. (TBC) World Archery Para Championships Bangkok (THA)

Bold = World Ranking Events Italic = Para-Archery World Ranking EventsTBC = To Be Confirmed


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Albina LOGINOVA (RUS)

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World Ranking

Recurve MenProgress Position Archer Nation Previous Points 1 Brady ELLISON USA 1 313.000 2 Dong Hyun IM Korea 2 261.200 3 Woojin KIM Korea 3 246.000 4 Dmytro HRACHOV Ukraine 4 233.550 5 Khairul Anuar MOHAMAD Malaysia 5 206.250 6 Jin Hyek OH Korea 6 191.875 7 Joe FANCHIN USA 7 186.650 8 Markiyan IVASHKO Ukraine 8 181.100

Recurve WomenProgress Position Archer Nation Previous Points 1 Deepika KUMARI India 1 253.800 2 Bo Bae KI Korea 2 239.400 3 Yuting FANG P.R. China 3 219.400 4 Dasomi JUNG Korea 4 210.400 5 Alejandra VALENCIA Mexico 9 199.125 6 Ming CHENG P.R. China 5 193.725 7 Berengere SCHUH France 6 178.200 8 Miranda LEEK USA 7 172.250

Compound MenProgress Position Archer Nation Previous Points 1 Reo WILDE USA 1 333.000 2 Braden GELLENTHIEN USA 2 235.850 3 Rodger WILLETT JR USA 3 207.450 4 Pierre Julien DELOCHE France 6 193.300 5 Christopher PERKINS Canada 12 193.150 6 Sergio PAGNI Italy 4 192.550 7 Dominique GENET France 5 183.050 8 Dietmar TRILLUS Canada 7 175.850

Compound WomenProgress Position Archer Nation Previous Points 1 Albina LOGINOVA Russia 1 288.325 2 Marcella TONIOLI Italy 2 266.200 3 Erika ANSCHUTZ USA 3 248.200 4 Jamie VAN NATTA USA 4 234.450 5 Christie COLIN USA 8 194.975 6 Laura LONGO Italy 5 190.350 7 Kristina BERGER Germany 11 188.550 8 Pascale LEBECQUE France 6 167.350

As of 25 June 2012



149 Member AssociationsAFG Afghanistan • AfghanistanALG Algeria • AlgérieARG Argentina • Argentine ARM Armenia • ArménieASA American Samoa • Samoa américainesAUS Australia • AustralieAUT Austria • AutricheAZE Azerbaijan • AzerbaïdjanBAN Bangladesh • BangladeshBAR Barbados • BarbadeBEL Belgium • BelgiqueBEN Benin • BéninBER Bermuda • BermudesBHU Bhutan • BhoutanBIH Bosnia and Herzegovina /

Bosnie-HerzégovineBLR Belarus • BélarusBRA Brazil • BrésilBUL Bulgaria • BulgarieCAF Central Africa • Centrafrique CAM Cambodia • CambodgeCAN Canada • CanadaCHA Chad • TchadCHI Chile • ChiliCHN People’s Republic of China •

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République démocratique du CongoCOL Colombia • ColombieCRC Costa Rica • Costa RicaCRO Croatia • CroatieCUB Cuba • CubaCYP Cyprus • ChypreCZE Czech Republic • République tchèqueDEN Denmark • DanemarkDMA Dominica • DominiqueDOM Dominican Republic •

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République démocratique populaire LaoLAT Latvia • LettonieLBA Libyan Arab Jamahiriya •

Jamahiriya arabe libyenneLIB Lebanon • LibanLIE Liechtenstein • LiechtensteinLTU Lithuania • LituanieLUX LuxembourgMAC Macau • MacaoMAR Morocco • MarocMAS Malaysia • MalaisieMAW Malawi • MalawiMDA Republic of Moldova •

République de MoldavieMEX Mexico • MexiqueMGL Mongolia • MongolieMLT Malta • MalteMNE Montenegro • MonténégroMON Monaco • MonacoMRI Mauritius • MauriceMTN Republic of Montenegro •

République du MonténégroMYA Myanmar • BirmanieNAM Namibia • NamibieNCA Nicaragua • NicaraguaNED Netherlands • Pays-BasNEP Nepal • Népal

NFI Norfolk Islands • Iles NorfolkNGR Nigeria • NigeriaNIG Niger • NigerNOR Norway • Norvège NZL New Zealand • Nouvelle-ZélandePAK Pakistan • PakistanPAN Panama • PanamaPAR Paraguay • ParaguayPER Peru • PérouPHI Philippines • PhilippinesPLW Palau • PalaosPNG Papua New Guinea • Papouasie

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PUR Puerto Rico • Porto RicoQAT Qatar • QatarROU Romania • RoumanieRSA South Africa • Afrique du SudRUS Russian Federation • Fédération de RussieSAM Samoa • SamoaSEN Senegal • SénégalSIN Singapore • SingapourSLE Sierra Leone • Sierra LeoneSLO Slovenia • SlovénieSMR San Marino • Saint-MarinSOM Somalia • SomalieSRB Serbia • SerbieSRI Sri Lanka • Sri LankaSUI Switzerland • SuisseSUR Suriname • SurinameSVK Slovakia • SlovaquieSWE Sweden • SuèdeTGA Tonga • TongaTHA Thailand • ThaïlandeTJK Tajikistan • TadjikistanTOG Togo • TogoTPE Chinese Taipei • Chinese TaipeiTRI Trinidad and Tobago • Trinité-et-TobagoTUN Tunisia • TunisieTUR Turkey • TurquieUGA Uganda • OugandaUKR Ukraine • UkraineURU Uruguay • UruguayUSA United States of America •

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