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As you read this, the 2014 outdoor season will be well underway.

For the second year in a row, our Archery World Cup stage line-

up consists of Shanghai, Medellin, Antalya and Wroclaw.

All four have been extremely successful – as Shanghai and

Antalya have been many times already. With another year’s

experience, our organising committees in Colombia and Poland

made impressive improvements in the standard of their events.

The crowds, finals and reception to our World Cup stages in 2014

is testament to the work of our local organising committees, the

performances of our athletes and archery’s ever expanding fanbase.

We are now preparing for the Archery World Cup Final in

Lausanne – and we are proud to extend our welcome to

international officials and the public. It will be the Final’s second

visit to the city, after previously hosting the event in 2008.

The Olympic Capital is a fitting location for our premier event,

not least because significant progress has been made in the

development of our World Archery Training Centre in the city.

We recently received official confirmation that the Training Centre

has been approved for inclusion in the proposed area – and

the urban planning has been changed, which marks completion

of the first step in the administrative process. The process of

obtaining a building permit is now underway, which should allow

us to start construction after the summer.

The Centre will be an essential part of World Archery’s future

development strategy.

We will witness some of that already-successful strategy at

the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing – which will include

participants supported by our current development programmes.

Looking back, at the beginning of last indoor season, Marrakesh

hosted the first ever World Cup stage on African soil. It marked

another exciting phase in the evolution of our sport.

Three more thrilling contests followed – in Singapore, Telford and Las

Vegas – before the World Archery Indoor Championships in Nimes.

The Nimes finals drew an impressive crowd and looked impeccable

on television – and in the photographs you will see in this magazine.

Highlights from events throughout the year have been shown

numerous times on Eurosport, a network – I am proud to say –

which will feature archery for the next three years. It really is the

platform we need to ensure the sport keeps finding new fans.

Alongside Eurosport, our sponsorship programme is finding

sustained success and we continue to receive interest from

television broadcasters around the world.

Finally, I must thank everyone for their messages of support during

the IOC Executive Board and ASOIF Council elections. I continue

to represent the voices of archery, inclusive sport and evolving

formats – keeping World Archery at the heart of international

sporting excellence.

Looking forward to the challenges and opportunities we face over

the second half of this year, I hope to see you at Lausanne 2014.

Progress made on Lausanne Centre; another step in archery’s evolution

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15 The big stage: Archery World Cup 2014

24 Continents collide: all five medal at Nimes

37 Bright lights: Indoor World Cup 2013/14

49 Head to head: VAN DER VEN and VALLADONT

61 Athlete of the Year 2013

67 Spread the word: maximising publicity

72 Iconic venues: payoff for perseverance

78 Youth Olympic Games: Nanjing 2014

82 International archery arrow groups

87 World Rankings

91 Calendar

92 Member Associations

95 Sponsors and Partners

96 Thanks

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Prof Dr Uğur ERDENER elected to IOC Executive Board

At the 126th International Olympic

Committee Session in Sochi, ahead

of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Prof Dr

Uğur ERDENER was made a member of the

Olympic Movement’s Executive Board.

The vote took place on the morning of

the last day of the session. Prof Dr Uğur

ERDENER was elected with 51 votes in

favour against 42 for Mr Richard POUND,

former IOC Vice President and former Pres-

ident of WADA.

Prof Dr ERDENER said: “It is an honour to

have been appointed to such a prestigious

position. The continued promotion and pro-

gression of the Olympic Movement is para-

mount to the success and development

of all sports worldwide, and a cause I am

most passionate about.”

“As President of World Archery, I have seen

a change in the way we present sport to

world, its people and media. To retain the

attention of old Olympic fans and encour-

age the support of new, we must continue

to evolve and engage.”

As well as serving as the President of the

Turkish Archery Federation for 23 years,

Prof Dr ERDENER spent five years as

President of World Archery Europe before

becoming the first Turkish sportsman to be

elected President of an International Fed-

eration in 2005 – and is currently President

of the country’s NOC. He was re-elected to

a third term as President of World Archery

at the organisation’s 50th Congress in Belek,

Turkey last year.

Prof Dr Uğur ERDENER is the second

World Archery President to obtain a posi-

tion on the IOC Executive Board after Jim

Easton served as a Vice President from

2002 to 2006.

The IOC Session in Sochi was hailed as his-

toric because of unprecedented discussion

on the future of the Olympic Games under

the leadership of Dr Thomas BACH. The

newly-elected Executive Board will play a

key role in the implementation of the Olym-

pic 2020 Agenda.

“ It is honour to have been appointed to such a prestigious position”

President BACH addresses delegates at

the 126th IOC Session in Sochi (© IOC)

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World Archery signs three-year

broadcast deal with Eurosport

Kia extend partnership by two years

As one of the original partners of the Ar-

chery World Cup when it was launched

in 2006, Kia Motors has supported each

step of archery’s evolution to its current

status as in-demand spectator sport.

“Our seven-year relationship with Kia has

been crucial,” said World Archery Secre-

tary General Tom DIELEN.

Hyundai Motor Group Vice Chairman

Euisun CHUNG added: “Passion and ex-

citement, emotions close to Kia’s ethos,

are what make archery great. Kia Motors is

proud to be long-term supporter of such a

fascinating sport.”

The organisation will continue to have sec-

tor exclusivity as Official Car Sponsor of the

Archery World Cup for the duration of the

partnership extension. Kia’s brand, one of

positivity, economy, adventure and open-

ness – evidenced in its current marketing

strategy of inviting customer reviews – is

seen as the perfect complement for the

sport of archery.

Over the last eight years, Kia has seen the

value of its association with World Archery

consistently increase as the sport gains wid-

er exposure. Archery is now regularly broad-

cast on television channels around the world,

offers one of the best live event experiences

on the Olympic programme and gets more

press coverage than ever before.

In 2013, the company expanded its live

archery event sponsorship to include part-

nerships on Eurosport programming and

awareness campaigns, which will now

continue until the end of 2016 following a

recent extension.

Kia Motors’ overseas subsidiaries and dis-

tributors, in cooperation with global HQ, of-

ten offer additional support to archery events.

In Europe, the company recently supplied

official vehicles to the World Archery Cham-

pionships in Belek/Antalya, Turkey and the

indoor championships in Nimes, France.

Archery in Kia Motors’ home country

of South Korea is as popular as ever as

athletes prepare for this summer’s Asian

Games, which are being held in the Ko-

rean city of Incheon. The nation’s archers

won both recurve events at the World Cup

Final under the Eiffel Tower in Paris last

year, and at London 2012 Korea won three

of the four available Olympic gold medals.

Eurosport and Eurosport 2 will show

highlights from each Archery World

Cup stage in 2014: Shanghai, Me-

dellin, Antalya and Wroclaw. The Final in

Lausanne will have two dedicated live pro-

grammes on Eurosport 2 – with highlights

after on both Eurosport and Eurosport 2.

Eurosport 2 broadcast the World Archery

Indoor Championships in Nimes 2014 live,

with repeat broadcasts on Saturday 1 and

Sunday 2 March 2014 – and highlights then

broadcast on Eurosport’s main channel on

Wednesday 5 March.

Eurosport Asia-Pacific also had the option

to broadcast live or delayed coverage of the

2014 World Archery Indoor Championships

in Nimes but instead opted to carry this

season’s Archery World Cup Final.

Over the second and third years of the deal,

Eurosport will showcase Archery World Cup

stages and Finals, World Archery Champi-

onships and highlights from other major

archery events.

To complement the broadcast programme,

World Archery has planned strong promo-

tional campaigns on Eurosport’s television

and digital networks. That began with a

brand new 30-second promotional spot

that debuted on Eurosport networks on 1

March, to coincide with the first day of the

Nimes 2014 World Archery Indoor Cham-

pionships coverage.

In 2013, World Archery reached over 125

million people worldwide on the Eurosport

network with live coverage and highlights,

television and new media advertising

campaigns: an unprecedented audience

in Europe for the sport outside of the

Olympic and Paralympic Games. Viewers

were treated to World Cup Final atmo-

sphere while watching the world’s best

archers compete under the Eiffel Tower in

Paris and world championship tension on

Belek beach in Turkey.

An Olympic broadcast partner for over 20

years, Eurosport has seen ratings for live

archery positively increase in recent years

– especially since London 2012. With the

network’s expertise and experience in

televising Olympic sports, World Archery

expects to see viewing figures continue to

rise in 2014 and beyond.

“The continued demand for images of our

sport puts us in an encouraging position as

we crest the halfway point in this Olympic

cycle,” said World Archery Secretary Gen-

eral Tom DIELEN. “It’s a privilege to be back

on Eurosport for the 2014 season and for

years to come.”

“Over the last eight years, Kia has seen the value of its association with archery keep increasing as the sport gains wider exposure”

Olympic Champion

OH Jin Hyek of Korea

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Committee members gather at Lausanne HQ

World Archery’s committees conducted

their annual meetings as a group in

Lausanne this year. It was the first time

since 2002 the organisation has run an All-

Committee gathering rather than the usual

process of each group holding their meeting

separately throughout the year.

“It was an extremely valuable project,”

said World Archery Secretary General

Tom DIELEN. “We had fantastic feed-

back from the committee members

themselves, who thoroughly enjoyed the

format, and having such a mix of peo-

ple and responsibilities enabled a huge

berth of discussion and expert input that

otherwise would not have been possible.”

Representatives from the Athletes, Coach-

es, Constitution and Rules, Field Archery,

Judges, Medical and Sports Sciences, Para

Archery, Target Archery and Technical per-

manent committees were in Lausanne for

the weekend of 21/22 March, while the

Finance, Classification and World Plan ad-

hoc groups attended before or after.

The role of the permanent and ad-hoc

committees and commissions is to study

interpretations and questions, and pro-

pose recommendations to the World Ar-

chery Executive Board on issues within

their areas of responsibility.

In Lausanne, as well as fulfilling this

function, committees were asked to con-

sider how their group could contribute to

the vision of the new World Archery Plan,

which revolves around making archery

an important Olympic sport nationally, in

countries worldwide.

and our federations want to improve –

but many need encouragement and sup-

port to take the leap.”

Little steps, Vicente says, will make all

the difference. Technology is at a level

now that a strong internet presence can

be managed by a volunteer with limited

time or an employee with little experi-

ence. Putting videos and images that

archery fans are already creating in a

federation-owned web space creates an

identity that will lift public awareness of

the sport in the country.

To offer that necessary encouragement,

members of the this commission will fo-

cus on specific geographical areas over

the next three years – helping federa-

tions take those small steps that will raise

opinions of archery around the globe.

The full outcomes of the 2014 All-Com-

mittee Meeting in Lausanne will become

apparent in time. But with near hindsight,

bringing so many people with such pas-

sion, knowledge and vision for archery

together at World Archery’s headquar-

ters in Lausanne has only helped move

this successfully-evolving sport another

step forward.

“Having such a mix of people enabled a huge range of discussion and expert input”

Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on

Strategic Planning Assistance for mem-

ber associations, which looks after the

plan’s aims, Mr Vicente MARTINEZ said:

“We have a challenge now to encourage

archery’s member associations around

the world to go that extra step to make

their sport more valuable at a local, na-

tional level.”

“Thankfully, the obstacle is not a lack

of enthusiasm or knowledge – World

Archery has all the expertise necessary

Delegates at the 2014 All-Committee

meetings outside Maison du Sport

International in Lausanne

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Korean national television network SBS

has signed a deal to show the sport in

one of the most prominent archery na-

tions through the 2017 seasons. The

network has been World Archery’s of-

ficial broadcaster in Korea since 2010

and joined production of archery at

the London Games in 2012. Korean

archers lead both the recurve world

ranking lists right now (see page 87)

and the country is sending more and

more compound archers to interna-

tonal events.

World Archery Secretary General

Tom DIELEN has served as a vice

president on the executive com-

mittee of the International Com-

monwealth Games Association

for the last four years. He was

re-elected to the committee as a

member at the organisation’s an-

nual general meeting – held during

SportAccord – in 2014. It’s a posi-

tion he has previously held, for one

four-year term before his stint as

vice chair.

International judge and former presi-

dent of World Archery Norway Vigdis

LANKSKAUG passed away recently.

She will be missed worldwide, and

World Archery’s thoughts are with Vig-

dis’ family.

Archery was officially confirmed as a

sport on the 2017 World Masters Games

in Auckland, New Zealand over the sum-

mer. The international multi-sport event

is held every four years – but, unlike

most of its kind, is completely open

entry. Over 28,000 people competed at

the Sydney edition in 2009.

Visas for Turkey have moved online. Any-

one travelling to the World Cup stage in

Antalya is advised to firstly check if they

need a visa before ordering one online

at www.evisa.gov.tr

Three new staff joined the World Ar-

chery office at the start of 2014. Ex-

perienced developer and programmer

Matteo PISANI who is well-known for

his work on Ianseo and with FITArco –

the Italian federation – is now World

Archery’s IT Manager. Laurent HADORN

is managing key contracts, particularly

with Fila, as Project Manager and, a

member of the LOCOG London 2012

Sport team, Chris WELLS has assumed

Communications Manager duties.

The International Olympic Committee

has launched online learning for ath-

letes – both aspiring and of Games level.

Called the MOOC, or Massive Online

Open Course, it’s a free internet-based

platform with a catalogue of lectures

and lessons from leading academics,

athletes and inspiring figures. Find out

more at http//onlinecourse.olympic.org

Prof Dr Uğur ERDENER was elected

unopposed to the Executive Council

of the Association of Summer Olympic

International Federation’s during Spor-

tAccord in Belek. The organisation rep-

resents the collective interests of the

federations in the Olympic programme.

Longines’ new Prize for Precision –

Stage Awards were awarded to wom-

en’s competitors at the first two World

Cup events of the season. Mexico’s

Aida ROMAN collected the prize in

Shanghai before Erika JONES (USA)

won in Medellin.

It was with great sadness that we

reported the passing of Mrs Lola

GNECCHI in July. Wife of Honorary

Vice President Francesco GNECCHI

RUSCONE, she was an active wit-

ness to the most important archery

events of the last half-century.

New rule books now online! Changes

to the rules made at congress last year

are in effect from 1 April 2014. You can

pick up the new rule book on the World

Archery website.

The World Games has launched an

online sports channel. It shows feeds

from all of the sports involved in

the four-year event – including ar-

chery. Check World Games TV out at:

http://channel.theworldgames.org/

Quick shots: news in brief

World Games TV, including compound archery!

Member Services Coordinator Raheleh AHADPOUR and President Prof Dr

Uğur ERDENER at World Archery’s booth at SportAccord Convention in Belek

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Mexico City to host 2015 World Cup Final and 2017 World Archery Championships

The Archery World Cup Final and World

Archery Championships are the sport’s

two most important independent events.

Over the next three years, both will be

hosted in the heart of Latin America – the

centre of a continent that has seen a mas-

sive uptake in the archery’s popularity over

the last five to 10 years.

Mexico has become a key market for ar-

chery since its team took women’s individ-

ual silver and bronze at the London 2012

Olympic Games.

“Archery is central to Mexico’s sport pro-

gramme following the successes this

nation’s athletes have already achieved,”

said the Director of Sport for Mexico City,

Mr Horacio DE LA VEGA.

“It is a sport on the rise in both popularity

and participation, and there is a significant

audience for archery’s international events

and athletes within the country.”

Aida ROMAN and Mariana AVITIA have

become sporting celebrities at home and

abroad. This was particularly evident when

the Mexico City organising committee cre-

hosted a live spectator finals in a historical

part of the capital city and secured nation-

al broadcast agreements for the images.

An audience of over 13,000 watched the

competition at the venue – with many

more tuning in on television.

“Archery is central to Mexico’s sport programme following the successes this nation’s athletes have already achieve. It is a sport on the rise in both popularity and participation here…”

The athletes that took part praised the

atmosphere, smooth organisation and the

efforts of the hosting organisation to en-

gage the live crowd.

Men’s Olympic Champion OH Jin Hyek

smiled when he was asked if Mexico City

ated and delivered the innovative Mexican

Challenge to support its bids.

Inviting the best archers from around the

world to compete against the Mexican

team, Moveo Lab – the company that will

coordinate Mexico City 2015 and 2017 –

Athletes at the 2013 Mexican

Challenge showed their support

for the Mexico City 2017 bid

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should host the World Championships: “if

they invite me, I would love to come back.”

For many years, Mexico’s athletes have

been asking for an international competi-

tion to take place on their soil. The combi-

nation of a host organisation that shares

World Archery’s value of putting athletes

at the centre of events, the opportunity to

visit a country that is leading the elite level

of the sport and is developing it at all lev-

els persuaded World Archery’s Executive

Board to award both events in unison.

It is hoped that a successful and comple-

mentary programme of community en-

gagement and sport development can

be build around the two-event cycle to

supplement current efforts of archery pro-

motion in Mexico and the Americas.

The two events are very different. Mexico

City 2015 – the Archery World Cup Final –

will feature the 32 best athletes of the year

and take place over one weekend. It will

be hosted in an iconic setting and focused

on event presentation, head-to-head in-

dividual archery and high-quality, tense

competition for television.

In 2017, the World Championships are ex-

pected to attract upwards of 500 athletes

representing 70 different countries for a

week-long tournament, which is imme-

diately preceeded by the two-day World

Archery Congress. It will also feature a

two-day finals event, held in a public and

accessible venue.

Mexico is no stranger to hosting major

sporting events. It has held Pan Am, Carib-

bean and Central American – and even the

Olympic Games (Mexico City 1968).

Archery last visited the country in 2006,

when the first World Cup Final was held

around the Mayapan Pyramids near Me-

rida, which hosted the World Archery Youth

Championships that same year.

With the committed support of Mexico

City’s Mayor, Dr Miguel ANGEL MANCERA

and Mr DE LA VEGA – who had an excel-

lent career as an athlete – World Archery

is confident that Mexico City offers a fan-

tastic opportunity for the city and sport to

deliver something truly memorable.

In front of the Chateau de Vidy, during

the International Olympic Committee’s

annual celebrations, World Archery organ-

ised a try-archery experience for Olympic

Day garden party guests.

Barcelona 1992 team gold medallist and

World Archery Events Director Juan-Carlos

HOLGADO was among the staff lending

expert tuition to a steady stream of par-

ticipants: “this is the spiritual home of the

Olympic Movement – it’s a great honour to

be here and to be included in the move-

ment’s Olympic Day celebrations.”

2015 Youth worlds awarded to Yankton

Have-a-go on IOC lawn to celebrate Olympic Day

Executive Board members awarded the

next edition of the World Archery Youth

Championships to Yankton, South Dakota,

USA in an unanimous vote.

The event will run from 8 to 14 June 2015

and is expected to draw around 600 com-

petitors from 60 countries, with a similar

number of support staff and family on top

of that figure.

The bid, submitted by the USA’s National

Field Archery Association Foundation, will

bring the competition to the organisa-

tion’s headquarters.

“We’ll give a young gener-

ation of archers a great

event while displaying

our world-class ven-

ue and City to competitors from around

the globe,” said President Mr Bruce CULL.

World Archery already partners with the

NFAA to deliver the fourth stage and Final

of its annual Indoor Archery World Cup

at the prestigious Vegas Shoot. In 2012,

Bruce CULL and his team also ran the in-

door world championships.

World Archery Events Director Juan-

Carlos HOLGADO added: “Everything is in

close proximity, the venue is very safe for

young archers and the facility is one

of the best dedicated archery

centres I have ever seen.

“Yankton 2015 will be

an excellent event.”

Juan-Carlos HOLGADO takes aim

outside the IOC headquarters

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The Dutch Archery Federation reported

reaching the 10,000-member mark in

July 2014 – for the first time its history.

It means the Netherlands’ growth plan

leading up to the Olympic Games in 2016

is well on track, and the sport is making a

strong contribution to the national policy of

increasing national sports participation to

75% by the end of the next Olympic cycle.

World Archery President Prof Dr Uğur

ERDENER accepted an invitation to

visit DPR Korea’s training facility after the

nation’s recurve women won team bronze at

the first 2014 World Cup stage in Shanghai.

He was impressed by the young age of the

athletes, their high performance and the

archery centre’s 70-metre indoor facility.

Starring award-winning pop singer M PO-

KORA, hit musical Robin des Bois pro-

vided the perfect opportunity for the French

Archery Federation to promote the sport to

the general public.

The federation ran try-archery experiences

in 17 of the 19 cities the show visited on

its tour of France, Switzerland and Bel-

gium over the first half of 2014.

Over 12,000 people took advantage of

the chance to try archery through the pro-

motion, with the majority of participants

young people – particularly girls.

“The federation’s booth never emptied,”

said Laurence FRERE, Marketing and

Communications Director for the FFTA. “A

natural association between Robin Hood

and the sport of archery has led real legiti-

macy to this initiative.”

Robin des Bois tells the story of Robin

launching an attempt to rescue his and

Maid Marion’s son – who happens to have

been imprisoned by the Sherrif of Notting-

ham, who is Marion’s father.

M POKORA is a popular artist in France

who has also featured in the country’s

version of Dancing with the Stars. He and

others from the main cast of the Robin

de Bois musical visited the Archery World

Cup Final in Paris at the end of 2013.

For more information on the FFTA’s coop-

eration with the musical’s producers, con-

tact Laurence FRERE: l.frere@ffta.fr

Star of Robin des Bois, M POKORA, tries

archery during the acclaimed show’s tour

The musical’s main cast after receiving tuition

from FFTA staff and volunteers on the range

Robin des Boisdraws 12,000+ to archery in France

Martin DAMSBO shows off the international Act of Fair

Play award he collected in July at a ceremony in Russia.

Dutch federation hits

10,000 members milestone

President visits DPR Korea

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Turkish Airlinessign on to sponsor through 2015

Competition calendar

for 2015, outdoors

and indoors, set

Turkish Airlines became the official airline

of World Archery with the launch of the

Archery World Cup in 2006. It has support-

ed the growth of that circuit and archery’s

evolution into one of the core sports on the

Olympic Programme.

With this latest two-year extension, Turk-

ish Airlines will retain its airline sector

exclusive partnership through the end of

the 2015 season.

“We are extremely thankful for Turkish

Airlines’ continued support of not only

our federation, but our athletes, officials

and staff that travel worldwide to our

events,” said World Archery President

Prof Dr Uğur ERDENER.

Archery World Cup and Indoor Archery

World Cup event dates are now fully

confirmed following the announcement of

Mexico City as host of the World Cup Final.

As well as a World Cup fixtures, 2015 will

include at least three world champion-

ships: the senior, para and youth events.

“Turkish Airlines is the best airline in Eu-

rope – and an airline that cares about its

passengers and excellence, in aviation

and in sport.”

Over the last eight years, Turkish Airlines –

the global network carrier – has seen the

value of its association with World Archery

consistently increase as the sport gains

wider exposure on television channels,

through significant international press cov-

erage and at live events around the world.

Turkey – where the airline is based – has

hosted a World Cup stage in Antalya since

2006 and held the 2013 World Archery

Championships on Belek beach.

The nation’s junior archery team are find-

ing sustained international success, too –

picking up medals at both the last indoor

and outdoor world youth championships.

For the duration of the extension, World Ar-

chery athletes and officials will continue re-

ceiving a 12kg additional luggage allowance.

Turkish Airlines receive significant

exposure in prime spots at events

Archery World Cup 2015

Stage 1 Shanghai, CHN 5-10 May

Stage 2 Antalya, TUR 26-31 May

Stage 3 Wroclaw, POL 11-16 Aug

Stage 4 Medellin, COL 8-13 Sept

Final Mexico City, MEX 24-25 Oct

Indoor World Cup 2014/15

Stage 1 Marrakesh, MAR 8-9 Nov 14

Stage 2 Bangkok, THA 6-7 Dec 14

Stage 3 Nimes, FRA 23-25 Jan 15

Stage 4 Las Vegas, USA 6-7 Feb 15

Final Las Vegas, USA 7 Feb 15

Rio will host its Olympic Test Event to-

wards the end of the year and archery is

included on the Gwangju Summer Uni-

versiade sports programme.

Continental highlights include the first

ever European Games. See the full

2015 international archery calendar at

www.worldarchery.org

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Khatuna LORIG appointed Nanjing rolemodel

Americas development evident in Nanjing qualified

Five-time Olympian LORIG will join athlete

rolemodels from all 28 Youth Olympic

sports to pass on experience and knowl-

edge to aspiring international archers.

“It’s an honour to be an ambassador to

the young athletes at the Nanjing Games,”

said Khatuna LORIG after the Interna-

tional Olympic Committee announced

her appointment. “I am humbled to be

considered a rolemodel, and excited to

work with these talented young archers.”

Still one of the USA’s top archers – she

picked up her first world championships

title in the mixed team event with Brady

ELLISON at Belek – Khatuna made her

first Olympic appearance at the 1992

Games – where she won team bronze as

a member of the Unified Team.

“Hopefully my career and experiences

will motivate and inspire the athletes.

It’s important for them to understand it

takes a lot of hard work and dedication

to achieve their goals… and sometimes,

it takes longer than you want it to,” she

explained.

LORIG’s experience is expansive. She

has attended five Games in total: Barce-

lona, Atlanta, Sydney, Beijing and London

– missing only Athens, and is training to-

wards a sixth in Rio.

At Nanjing 2014, she’ll be running

workshops, question and answer ses-

sions and offering support to the 64

young athletes: “I’m looking forward to

experiencing an Olympics that consists

of so many hopefuls. It will be interest-

ing to be at Games and not competing.

I think I will see myself in them, when

I started chasing my own Olympic

dreams.”

Khatuna is uniquely placed to offer all

the wisdom she’s collected over a career

spanning three decades coupled with

the passion she still has for competing

at a high level.

At Beijing, LORIG finished fifth, before

going one better and taking fourth in

London. If she continues that improve-

ment, the States archer is in line for a

medal at Rio. Maybe in Nanjing she’ll

meet some of the athletes that could po-

tentially stand in her way.

“They are all potential Rio Olympians,”

she said. “At Nanjing, I’ll see some tal-

ent – and be a part of getting them, and

me, to 2016!”

A World Archery partner since 2009, Glob-

al Sports Development is instrumental

in archery’s ongoing development world-

wide – but particularly in the Americas.

Training camps, coach education pro-

grammes and donations of equipment

have increased participation at grass

roots and improved international re-

sults. In fact, with Brazil, Argentina and

Guatemala all qualified for the Nanjing

2014 Youth Olympic Games, developing

archery nations are starting to make an

impact at the sport’s highest level.

President of Global Sports Development

David ULICH and Executive Member Steven

UNGERLEIDER, presented World Archery

Secretary General Tom DIELEN with copy

of the fourth edition of a youth art book

named Creative Sprit, produced by the or-

ganisation’s Culture, Education, Sport and

Ethics Programme. The publication shares

artistic painting and drawings from youth

and Olympic artists, sharing the passion of

sport and serving as an inspirational tool

for future generations.

The trio discussed the successful prog-

ress of Global Sports Development

initiatives so far, and laid down future

plans, ensuring the exciting steps for-

ward for archery in the Americas and

other developmental nations worldwide

continue hitting new targets.

“She’s been to five Games: Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney, Beijing and London”

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The big stage: Archery World Cup 2014

Words Chris WELLS

World Archery

Communications Manager

Images Dean ALBERGA

World Archery

Official Photographer

Familiar faces: the Archery World Cup returned to Shanghai, Medellin, Antalya and Wroclaw in 2014 – before its grand finale in the Olympic Capital, Lausanne

Four stages, one Final, 26 days of competi-

tion – 10 of those in live spectator arenas and

broadcast online and on television – spanning

three continents and attracting the very best ar-

chers from around the globe. The Archery World

Cup, now in its ninth year, is the premier interna-

tional archery series.

In 2014, the World Cup returned to the same

four stage hosts it visited in 2013 – Shanghai,

Medellin, Antalya and Wroclaw – building local

engagement as much as growing its fanbase

around the world.

At the first event of the season in Shanghai,

Longines introduced a brand new Prize for Pre-

cision – Stage Award, presented to the archer

shooting the most 10s in a specific division each

event. At Shanghai, the recurve women’s prize –

of a luxury Longines watch – went to Aida RO-

MAN, the London 2012 Olympic silver medallist

from Mexico.

In Medellin, an Indian recurve men’s team

took the Korean squad to a tense tiebreaker – af-

ter outscoring the Olympic Team Champions over

the second half of a tense match. It caught the

attention of Parque Notre’s passing spectators,

as well as those filling the stands.

The USA compounds, usually so dominant, lost

their strangehold on the team golds at Antalya.

Upset by the Netherlands in the men’s compe-

tition and Russia in the women’s, after winning

both of the first two stages, it was a microcosm

of the ongoing battle between the Americas and

European athletes in the compound divisions.

Korea issued a sharp reminder that their ex-

periment into the discipline ahead of the Incheon

Asian Games was yielding results, though: the

nation collected its first ever men’s individual

gold with the bow type.

In front of dancing fountains, Poland’s Wro-

claw stage saw a frantic individual eliminations

day push two-time World Cup Final winner Brady

ELLISON (USA) up into a qualifying position in the

rankings – and dash the hopes of countless ath-

letes that finished just outside the top seven.

With only Lausanne 2014 – and the World

Cup Final in The Olympic Capital – left on the

2014 world international calendar, recap this

year’s Archery World Cup so far…

Korean compound

women shoot

at Shanghai

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Always difficult to predict, the 2014 Archery World Cup opened to rainy weather in Shanghai,

China in April. French athletes PEINEAU, DELOCHE and PLIHON staked early claims to

Lausanne 2014 contention – while Elena RICHTER became the first German to pick up a

stage gold in the tour’s history. CHOI Bomin won Korea a compound women’s gold –

but in strange circumstances; Sara LOPEZ’s bow malfunctioned during the match.

Unheralded Colombian Daniel MUNOZ found some inspiration shooting in his

home city. He rolled through eliminations and into a gold medal final against Peter

ELZINGA, who won the stage – his first after eight years on the circuit. Korea’s re-

curves showed up and dominated the men’s recurve competitions. Germany had an-

other recurve women’s medallist – and won the team event – this time Lisa UNRUH.

2014 Archery World Cup – Shanghai medallists

Category Recurve men Recurve women Compound men Compound women

Gold Hideki KIKUCHI (JPN) Elena RICHTER (GER) Seb PEINEAU (FRA) CHOI Bomin (KOR)

Silver Pierre PLIHON (FRA) XU Jing (CHN) PJ DELOCHE (FRA) Sara LOPEZ (COL)

Bronze Rick VAN DER VEN (NED) Aida ROMAN (MEX) Bridger DEATON (USA) Alejandra USQUIANO (COL)

2014 Archery World Cup – Medellin medallists

Category Recurve men Recurve women Compound men Compound women

Gold LEE Seungyun (KOR) JUNG Dasomi (KOR) Peter ELZINGA (NED) Erika JONES (USA)

Silver OH Jin Hyek (KOR) Lisa UNRUH (GER) Daniel MUNOZ (COL) Toja CERNE (SLO)

Bronze KIM Woojin (KOR) Natalia ERDYNIEVA (RUS) Reo WILDE (USA) Inge VAN CASPEL (NED)

Shanghai

Stage 1

Medellin

Stage 2

21-27 April 2014China

12-18 May 2014Colombia

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Florian KAHLLUND outdid the German ladies in Antalya. The young recurve man beat

Korean KU Bonchan, who would not qualify for Lausanne even if he won – due to the

higher points totals of two of his teammates – to gold. KAHLLUND’s bow broke in the

second to last end of the final, so picked up his spare to shoot the winning arrows.

CHOI Yong Hee handed Korea its first ever compound men’s individual stage win.

Russia’s Tatiana SEGINA put herself in a win-and-in situation for her bronze medal

match with India’s resurgent Deepika KUMARI. (After a down year, KUMARI closed the

season featuring in the Wroclaw individual, team and mixed team medal matches.) It was

the only finals match at the stage with World Cup Final qualification connotations, all other

top-seven rankings being decided after eliminations. SEGINA lost, and finished eighth.

2014 Archery World Cup – Antalya medallists

Category Recurve men Recurve women Compound men Compound women

Gold Florian KAHLLUND (GER) CHANG Hye Jin (KOR) CHOI Yong Hee (KOR) Natalia AVDEEVA (RUS)

Silver KU Bonchan (KOR) CHENG Ming (CHN) Rajat CHAUHAN (IND) Fatimah ALMASHHADANI (IRQ)

Bronze Takaharu FURUKAWA (JPN) HAYAKAWA Ren (JPN) Mike SCHLOESSER (NED) Janine MEISSNER (GER)

2014 Archery World Cup – Wroclaw medallists

Category Recurve men Recurve women Compound men Compound women

Gold Rick VAN DER VEN (NED) Ika ROCHMAWATI (INA) PJ DELOCHE (FRA) Cansu COSKUN (TUR)

Silver Mauro NESPOLI (ITA) XU Jing (CHN) Reo WILDE (USA) Sara LOPEZ (COL)

Bronze JC VALLADONT (FRA) Deepika KUMARI (IND) Alexander DAMBAEV (RUS) Albina LOGINOVA (RUS)

Antalya

Stage 3

Wroclaw

Stage 4

9-15 June 2014Turkey

4-10 August 2014 Poland

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Lausanne will become the only

city to host the Archery World Cup

Final more than once in 2014. The Olym-

pic Capital, home of the International Olympic

Committee and many of sport’s international federations – in-

cluding World Archery – first held the event in 2008.

In 2014, Place de Navigation, the public square alongside

Ouchy harbour on Lac Léman, will be transformed into a spec-

tator archery arena – and host the world’s best athletes for a

weekend of ticketed and live-broadcast competition.

Paris 2013 – last year’s Final – was organised under the

Eiffel Tower, and images hit over 100 million television contacts

around the world through distribution agreements with Euro-

2014 Archery World Cup FinalVenue Place de Navigation, Lausanne

Dates 6/7 September 2014

Athletes 32 in four competition divisions

Prize money over CHF 100,000

Television audience upwards of 100 million contacts

Website www.lausanne2014.ch

sport, regional-specific deals

and transnational video feeds.

The schedule for 2014 remains un-

changed from previous years, with Saturday re-

served for compound archery finals and Sunday for the recurve,

Olympic-style division.

Individual winners at the World Cup Final – in the four com-

petition categories: compound and recurve men and women –

collect CHF 20,000 each from the prize fund, with money dis-

tributed down to fourth place.

For more information on the Lausanne 2014 Archery

World Cup Final, visit www.lausanne2014.ch and the World

Archery website: www.worldarchery.org

Lausanne: The Olympic Capital

Final

6/7 September 2014Switzerland

A drawing of the

Lausanne arena

Lausanne 2014:

arena from the air

Lausanne 2008: The

Olympic Capital will be

the only city to host the

World Cup Final twice

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XU Jing, London 2012

team silver medallist,

topped the individual

Archery World Cup

rankings in 2014

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Archery World Cup Rankings: Recurve women

Rank Athlete Nation

1 XU Jing CHN

2 JUNG Dasomi KOR

3 Elena RICHTER GER

4 Lisa UNRUH GER

5 JOO Hyun Jung KOR

6 Aida ROMAN MEX

7 CHENG Ming CHN

+ Switzerland host nation representative

Archery World Cup Rankings:Recurve men

Rank Athlete Nation

1 Rick VAN DER VEN NED

2 Marcus DALMEIDA BRA

3 Pierre PLIHON FRA

4 Brady ELLISON USA

= OH Jin Hyek KOR

6 LEE Seungeun KOR

= Florian KAHLLUND GER

+ Switzerland host nation representative

Recurve man

World Ranking: 2

2013 Archery World Cup

Shanghai Winner

Antalya Winner

Medellin DNA

Wroclaw Fourth

Paris Champion

Recurve woman

World Ranking: 1

2013 Archery World Cup

Shanghai Winner

Antalya Silver

Medellin DNA

Wroclaw Winner

Paris Champion

OH Jin Hyek Korea

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ners

Olympic Champion OH Jin Hyek won three of the four Ar-

chery World Cup events he attended in 2013 – including

the Final in Paris. He’s qualified to defend his title in 2014,

but has struggled in matches against teammate LEE.

YUN Ok Hee made her return to the Korean team in

2013 – after disappearing following the Edinburgh 2010

Archery World Cup Final. She didn’t make the team again

in 2014, despite being ranked number one in the world!

YUN Ok Hee Korea

Sara LOPEZ during

the Shanghai 2014

medal matches

Peter ELZINGA waited

eight years for his stage

win at Medellin 2014

Takaharu FURUKAWA:

Longines Prize for Precision

stage winner in Antalya

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Archery World Cup Rankings: Compound men

Rank Athlete Nation

1 Sara LOPEZ COL

2 Albina LOGINOVA RUS

3 Erika JONES USA

4 Natalia AVDEEVA RUS

5 Linda OCHOA MEX

6 Alejandra USQUIANO COL

7 Toja CERNE SLO

+ Switzerland host nation representative

Archery World Cup Rankings: Compound men

Rank Athlete Nation

1 Reo WILDE USA

2 Peter ELZINGA NED

3 Pierre Julien DELOCHE FRA

4 Sebastien PEINEAU FRA

= Bridger DEATON USA

6 Rajat CHAUHAN IND

7 CHOI Yong Hee KOR

+ Switzerland host nation representative

Compound man

World Ranking: 11

2013 Archery World Cup

Shanghai Silver

Antalya Bronze

Medellin Fourth

Wroclaw 17th

Paris Champion

Compound woman

World Ranking: 6

2013 Archery World Cup

Shanghai DNA

Antalya 17th

Medellin Winner

Wroclaw 6th

Paris Champion

Danish compound archer DAMSBO was in a win and in

situation as the eliminations unravelled at the last 2014

World Cup stage in Wroclaw. As in: win the entire tourna-

ment, and he’d qualify. He didn’t quite manage it…

USQUIANO was the second Colombian to win a World

Cup stage in 2013, after Sara LOPEZ took gold at An-

talya. In 2014, she didn’t pick up any stage gold – but

she’ll be at Lausanne, defending her Finals title.

Martin DAMSBO Denmark

Alejandra USQUIANO Colombia

*Athletes may decline their invitation to the Archery World Cup Final. In this case, the next ranked archer is invited – and so on

The Archery World Cup rankings decide which athletes are

invited to compete at the World Cup Final each year. Archers

receive points according to their final placing at each of the four

stages, with their three highest point finishes combined, and

the field ranked from highest to lowest.

The top seven ranked archers are joined by one host nation

representative to make the eight World Cup finalists.

The 2014 Archery World Cup Final rosterUntil individual elimination day at Wroclaw, the last stage of

the season, there were very few athletes locked for Lausanne.

Erika JONES (USA), Peter ELZINGA (NED), OH Jin Hyek (KOR)

and Elena RICHTER (GER) all had such big advantages that it

was unlikely they would be caught. But outside of the four lead-

ers, only a couple more archers were mathematically safe.

It made for a frantic day, which saw two-time recurve men’s

World Cup Final Champion Brady ELLISON (USA) jump 10 spots to

sneak into qualification at the last hurdle; France’s world number

one recurve man PJ DELOCHE and Mexican woman Linda OCHOA

battled into an invitation with top-eight results – and Russian Eu-

ropean Champion Tatiana SEGINA put herself in a situation where

if she won the Wroclaw bronze medal match, she’d collect enough

points to jump above the number seven ranked recurve women.

SEGINA couldn’t beat India’s Deepika KUMARI.

Defending ChampionsTwo of the four 2013 Archery World Cup Final Champions

qualified for Lausanne 2014: OH Jin Hyek – also the Olympic

Champion, from Korea – in the recurve men’s competition and

compound woman Alejandra USQUIANO (COL).

Rookies with potentialPierre PLIHON burst onto the French recurve team prior to the

2014 season – and managed a silver medal at his first interna-

tional competition, Shanghai 2014.

PLIHON consistently reached the latter stages of competition,

maintaining his position in the upper reaches of the rankings.

Brazilian 16-year-old Marcus DALMEIDA made his first indi-

vidual finals at Wroclaw, the season’s last stage – but a number

of top eight placings had already won him a Lausanne invitation.

Mid-way through the Olympic cycle, Marcus is considered

Brazil’s best medal hope in the archery competition at Rio 2016.

Read more about the World Cup Final at www.worldarchery.org

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Eleven years after the southern French town

last held the World Archery Indoor Champi-

onships, Nimes opened its doors to nearly 400

junior and senior athletes from over 60 nations.

Much has changed between the 2014 edi-

tion of the world indoors and the 2003, which

many of the French spectators that attended still

remembered. Not least, the ever-popular Nimes

European Tournament has turned the town’s Parc

des Expo into one of the best-known indoor ar-

chery venues in the world.

In fact, one of the nicest things about Nimes 2014 –

many of the archers said – was shooting at venue

they knew so well. And seeing the organisers raise

the level from the open-entry tournament that

runs year-in, year-out – to a fully-decorated world

championships arena.

Some things haven’t changed since 2003:

Michele FRANGILLI is still the recurve men’s

18-metre ranking round world record holder with

597 (he shot that back in 2001)…

…Reo WILDE is still one of the best indoor ar-

chers in the world…

…and French fans still love watching indoor ar-

chery at the highest level.

When Australia’s Ryan TYACK delivered a 10 with his final arrow of Nimes 2014 Oceania picked up gold. That put the last of the five continents on the podium

Continents collide: All five medal at Nimes

Qualification at Nimes:

a shooting line well-

known by many of

the competing archers

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AsiaJ

apan’s Miki NAKAMURA shot an impressive string of recurve

women’s elimination matches after qualifying in a strong third.

She beat Moldovan Alexandra MIRCA in the semifinals in straight

sets, posting two perfect 30s to advance to a gold medal match

against Aida ROMAN.

In the final, NAKAMURA lost a little of her level, managing a

best set score of 28. It was not enough against ROMAN, who

didn’t go lower than 29 – and closed out a straight-set win with

two perfect 30s, just as NAKAMURA had done to MIRCA the

round before.

Against a strong Ukraine in the recurve team gold medal

match, Japan’s men were off the pace. Hideki KIKUCHI, Naoya

ONIYAMA and Shungo TABATA came in six points shy of the Eu-

ropeans, but secured Asia’s – and Japan’s – second podium

finish of the tournament.

In a continent that is historically unsuccessful at indoor dis-

cipline events, Japan’s double-silver was quite an achievement.

Medals: AsiaNation Gold Silver Bronze Total

Japan 0 2 0 2

Total 0 2 0 2ROMAN versus NAKAMURA:

the recurve women’s gold medal match

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Americas

Often automatically favoured indoors, due to the number, level

and depth of competition talent for the discipline in the country,

the USA only won two of the seven gold medal finals its athletes

qualified for.

Reo WILDE – who was champion last time the world indoors

were in Nimes, 11 years ago – couldn’t beat Italy’s Sergio PAGNI

in the men’s final, and Christie COLIN fell to Sophie DODEMONT,

from France, in the women’s.

A Mexican compound women trio beat a heavily-favoured

States squad to team gold – before announcing that they’d be

“going out for crepes to celebrate” – but the compound men put

on an impressive show to win their semifinal, then final.

Over their last three matches, Jesse BROADWATER, Braden

GELLENTHIEN and WILDE only shot five arrows out of the

10-ring. (Five out of a total of 72 arrows!) And their semifinal

against Sweden was a perfect 240.

Reigning outdoor world champion Denmark were three

points behind the USA in the final.

Mexico’s Aida ROMAN, who began the week talking

about her new collection of lucky charms (see right), won

her first individual international medal since London 2012 silver,

by beating Miki NAKAMURA of Japan to recurve women’s gold.

Medals: AmericasNation Gold Silver Bronze Total

USA 2 5 3 10

Mexico 2 0 0 2

Total 4 5 3 12

Reo WILDE, who won the

indoor worlds last time it

was in Nimes, shot in the

gold medal match again

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I have paid my dues to get this record,” said a grinning Erika

JONES. “I’ve been flirting with it for many years. The first time I tied

it was when I was 17 – so I’m really excited that today was the day.”

The double World Games gold medallist was on a three-tourna-

ment winning streak after picking up Indoor World Cup titles at

Singapore, Telford and Las Vegas.

“The first half was really great,” an understatement for a com-

manding 299, “but I knew anything could happen in the second

half – so I just tried to stay focused and do the best I could.”

“I actually didn’t know whether my second to last arrow was a

10 or a nine.” That 59th shot was really close, just touching the line

in the end – but impossible to call from the shooting line. As far as

JONES knew, she needed a strong 10 to finish and take the record

by a point: “I just tried to stay focused and do the best I could.”

She shot a 10, the arrow before was also called in – and, by

just two points, Erika JONES broke a world record that had stood

for 13 years.

Erika’s world record

New lucky charms

Several lucky bracelets and an image of a saint gifted by a stranger

as she traveled to London accompanied Aida ROMAN on her Olym-

pic journey in 2012. The result of that trip is one most of us know:

individual silver in front of a roaring Lord’s crowd.

Aida keeps those charms safely at home in Mexico, for fear of

losing that which brought her Olympic success. This year, she’s

starting a new collection of lucky bracelets instead.

“I love colours. I love how bracelets sound… and I have the lucky

eye with me.” Smiling, she points to the enamel blue design adorn-

ing the latest addition to her collection.

However, Aida doesn’t place the responsibility of her perfor-

mance purely on what’s around her wrist. “In the end, the respon-

sibility for good shooting does not lay on the lucky charms, but on

myself and my bow.”

Mexico’s Aida ROMAN collected her first

individual medal since the silver she

won at the London 2012 Olympic Games

The USA’s Erika JONES set a new world best of 595 during qualification

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AfricaThe African continent’s lone medal came courtesy of the South

African compound women’s team. The fourth seeds needed

a shoot-off to win their quarterfinal match against Russia: in

which they produced three 10s to a disappointing Russian 28.

Against USA in the semifinals, Gerda ROUX, Jeanine VAN

KRADENBERG and Danelle WENTZEL dropped behind early –

and never caught up. The trio lost by three and went into a

bronze medal match against Italy, who’d just lost their own

shoot-off to eventual winners Mexico.

The South African team rolled to a comfortable, five-point

victory – 230 to 225 – over Italy, and collected a well-earned

world indoor bronze.

VAN KRADENBERG also made the compound women’s indi-

vidual finals: she lost to eventual silver-medallist Christie COLIN

in the semis, before trading sets with France’s Pascale LEBECQUE

in the bronze medal match.

A pair of perfect 30s from LEBECQUE pushed the home archer

in front – and she took the match, 7 set points to 3, over the

surprise African finalist. Medals: AfricaNation Gold Silver Bronze Total

South Africa 0 0 1 1

Total 0 0 1 1

Surprise finalists South Africa qualified in fourth and converted

the strong seeding into a team bronze medal

VAN KRADENBERG shoots

during the compound

women’s bronze final

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“I’ve never won an individual world title before,” said Italy’s Ser-

gio PAGNI after beating the USA’s Reo WILDE in the compound

men’s individual final. “It’s a relief that wait is finally over!”

In the tensest match of the tournament, multiple indoor world

title holder WILDE put too many arrows out of the middle. PAGNI

shot a clutch of methodical 29-point three-arrow sets, backed up

with a pair of 30s, to take the match 6-4.

Ukraine had a clean sweep of the senior recurve team golds –

men’s and women’s – as well as a pair of silvers in the junior team

events. Beijing 2008 Olympic Champion Viktor RUBAN lost out to

Australia’s Ryan TYACK in the recurve men’s gold final – while An-

astasia PAVLOVA recovered from a tight semifinal against Aida RO-

MAN to beat Moldova’s Alexandra MIRCA to bronze in straight sets.

To the pleasure of the home crowd, France’s Sophie DODEMO-

NT survived a five-set match-up with the USA’s Christie COLIN to

win the individual compound women’s title. See the next page for

more on the former Olympic-medal-winning recurve shooter.

European archers won gold in each of the junior individual divi-

sions and all the senior recurve categories – collecting the conti-

nent the largest medal count of Nimes 2014.

EuropeUkrainian men celebrate recurve team gold:

(L-R) IVANYTSKYY, IVASHKO, RUBAN

France’s junior recurve men won team gold Ukraine’s women completed the nation’s

clean sweep of the recurve team golds

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Medals: EuropeNation Gold Silver Bronze Total

Ukraine 3 3 3 9

Italy 3 1 1 5

France 2 0 1 3

Germany 1 2 0 3

Turkey 1 0 1 2

Hungary 1 0 0 1

Russia 0 1 2 3

Croatia 0 1 1 2

Denmark 0 1 1 2

Poland 0 0 2 2

Netherlands 0 0 1 1

Sweden 0 0 1 1

Total 11 9 14 34

Two-time World Cup

Final winner Sergio

PAGNI celebrates his first

individual world title

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Olympic medal to compound star“I wanted to try something new,” says Sophie DODEMONT, who was

part of France’s bronze medal-winning team at the Beijing Olympic

Games in 2008, but failed to qualify for the London Games.

“After things did not go well in 2012, I did not want to quit ar-

chery and told myself, why not give compound a try?”

What was “just a recreational activity with club friends” at the

beginning soon emerged into a more serious activity. Within a

year, Sophie became a full member of the French national com-

pound team.

Shooting her first international compound season in 2013, she

reached the individual quarterfinals at the Antalya World Cup and

earned France’s wild card for the 2013 World Cup Final – the only

Olympic medallist to ever compete in this event in compound.

In August, after the European Archery Championships in Ech-

miadzin, Armenia, Sophie announced her retirement from interna-

tional competition. She said that she had achieved all she wished

to in the sport, and would now only compete nationally.

Sophie DODEMONT (left) and Pascale

LEBECQUE on the podium after winning

individual compound women’s gold and

bronze in front of a home French crowd

One to watch: junior finalist

Jan VAN TONGEREN (NED)

Turkey’s junior recurve team received the bronze

France’s DODEMONT – an

Olympic medallist – on route

to a compound title in Nimes

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OceaniaA

ustralia’s Ryan TYACK didn’t lose a set until his recurve men’s

gold medal match against Beijing 2008 Olympic Champion

Viktor RUBAN.

Not even against Aussie teammate Taylor WORTH in the

semifinals, who’d also impressed during the eliminations

stages and knocked out the number two seed, Florian KAHL-

LUND (GER) in a quarterfinal shoot-off. Both shot good 10s,

but the Australian archer’s was closer to the middle.

WORTH told the Win&Win Archery Fan Reporter earlier in

the tournament that he loved shoot-offs, and would always

back himself to win a one-arrow situation. It’s something to

do with the pressure, the Aussie explained: he feeds off the

energy – and will do what is necessary to win.

His semifinal with TYACK, unfortunately, didn’t go that far –

although the match had the feeling of a final about it. TYACK

opened the match with six straight 10s, to jump 4-0 ahead

on set points, before securing his place in the gold medal

match with a 29.

Against RUBAN, for gold, TYACK nearly kept his clean-

sheet intact. Just a second-set 28, to Viktor’s 29, marred

the Australian’s tournament-long streak. The pair shared set

points in the third and fourth regulation ends, and went into

a fifth-set decider.

Where TYACK stepped up to the mark, in a big way.

Cool and collected, he drilled three arrows into the

middle, collecting Nimes gold in style.

Medals: OceaniaNation Gold Silver Bronze Total

Australia 1 0 0 1

Total 1 0 0 1

TYACK only lost one

set all tournament, and

that was in his final

against Viktor RUBAN

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Perhaps more anticipated than the TYACK–RUBAN final even, was

the bronze medal contest between WORTH and the USA’s Brady

ELLISON. The reason: the pair have history.

Aussie WORTH has ELLISON’s number, particularly outdoors.

In three fourth-round elimination matches at 70 metres, ELLISON

hasn’t beaten WORTH once. The most hurtful of these, though, was

at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

ELLISON started this Nimes bronze medal match with a pair of

29-point sets, jumping 4-0 ahead and looking like he’d conquer

his WORTH-shaped gremlin.

Things changed in the third: Brady’s arrows went wild, into the

red and he only scored 26. It was 4-2, and WORTH was back in the

match! But not for long… ELLISON recovered his form, shot a 30,

and stole gold from his nemesis from down under.

Recurve men’s bronze, WORTH versus ELLISON:

USA’s Brady faces the Australian that knocked

him out of the London 2012 Olympic Games

Ryan TYACK of Australia acknowledges the crowd

after becoming indoor archery world champion

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Individual medallists (senior)

Category Recurve men Recurve women Compound men Compound women

Gold Ryan TYACK (AUS) Aida ROMAN (MEX) Sergio PAGNI (ITA) Sophie DODEMONT (FRA)

Silver Viktor RUBAN (UKR) Miki NAKAMURA (JPN) Reo WILDE (USA) Christie COLIN (USA)

Bronze Brady ELLISON (USA) Anastasia PAVLOVA (UKR) Stephan HANSEN (DEN) Pascale LEBECQUE (FRA)

Team medallists (senior)Category Recurve men Recurve women Compound men Compound women

Gold Ukraine Ukraine United States Mexico

Silver Japan Germany Denmark United States

Bronze Netherlands Poland Sweden South Africa

Individual medallists (junior)Category Recurve men Recurve women Compound men Compound women

Gold M. WECKMUELLER (GER) Tatiana ANDREOLI (ITA) Viktor OROSZ (HUN) Mariya SHKOLNA (UKR)

Silver Carlo SCHMITZ (GER) Ariuna ZHARGALOVA (RUS) Mario VAVRO (CRO) Emily BEE (USA)

Bronze David PASQUALUCCI (ITA) Sylwia ZYZANSKA (POL) Bridger DEATON (USA) Lexi KELLER (USA)

Team medallists (junior)Category Recurve men Recurve women Compound men Compound women

Gold France Italy United States Turkey

Silver Ukraine Ukraine Italy United States

Bronze Turkey Russia Croatia Russia

All five continents medalled at Nimes 2014. Europe won the

medal haul count over the Americas – the two continents tradi-

tionally strong in the discipline – buoyed by a clean sweep

of the junior categories, but Asia, Africa and Oceania all

left with at least one podium finish.

While Japan and Australia’s success might have

been expected, South Africa’s was less so.

(Japan holds a yearly, prestigious indoor tournament and is

probably the Asian nation with the biggest following for the dis-

cipline. Australia’s young recurve pair – although admitting that

they practice the indoor round outdoors, because the weather

in the southern hemisphere is just too good in the European

winter month to be stuck inside – had already recorded large

scores at open indoor internationals.)

If any evidence is needed of the worldwide development of

archery – even outside of the Olympic, outdoor discipline –

then the Nimes medal standings are a good place to start.

Final tallies: Europe collected 34 junior and senior medals

in total, including both individual compound, junior individual

recurve, recurve team and junior team golds. Americas archers

climbed the podium nine times – with the USA defending their

long-standing monopoly on the compound men’s team title,

and Aida ROMAN picking up an individual crown. Asia had two

silvers, courtesy of Japan – and both Africa and Oceania fin-

ished Nimes 2014 with one medal each.

An impressive

performer at the

opening ceremony,

suspended in mid air

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Words Chris WELLS

World Archery

Communications Manager

Images Dean ALBERGA

World Archery

Official Photogapher

The most popular collection of open-entry ar-

chery events run worlwide, the Indoor World

Cup competition divisions attracted over 1,500

registrations in 2013/2014.

In 2013, a first ever World Cup stage was

held on the African continent, to start the indoor

series: in Marrakesh, Morocco. As well as being

popular with local and regional athletes – includ-

ing drawing representatives from nearby Egypt,

Sudan and more African countries – a large Euro-

pean contingent competed, along with some top

USA team members.

Nimes, a founding host of the Indoor Archery

World Cup, did not hold a stage in 2013/14, in-

stead focusing on organising the Indoor Archery

World Championships. (See page 24.) Telford

held the European leg of last year’s tour, joining

the Asian stage in Singapore and fourth stop and

Final in Las Vegas, USA.

The world-famous Vegas Shoot, the first two

days of which make up the fourth stage of the

Indoor World Cup, broke its own participation re-

cord in 2014 – topping out at over 2,200 athletes.

NFAA President Bruce CULL – who’s head of

the Vegas organising team – noted the growth in

youth divisions, particularly the girls’.

For him, and many in the archery industry, it’s

the rewards of a pop culture – film and television –

that’s been featuring archery heavily for the last

half decade. Exposure turned to awareness, into

engagement – and finally into an archery-practis-

ing public, now competing at world events.

Marrakesh, Singapore, Telford and Las Vegas – the four host cities of indoor archery’s premier global series in 2014

Indoor archery: World Cup, worldwide tour

Levi MORGAN, highly-touted

professional 3D archer in

the USA, shot his first World

Archery indoor round in Telford

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Indoor Archery World Cup Final medallists (senior)Category Recurve men Recurve women Compound men Compound women

Gold Rick VAN DER VEN Naomi FOLKARD Braden GELLENTHIEN Crystal GAUVIN

Silver Matteo FISSORE Tatiana SEGINA Bridger DEATON Inge VAN CASPEL

Bronze JC VALLADONT Anna BOTTO Peter ELZINGA Naomi JONES

Stage Marrakeshone

Naomi JONES lost

to Crystal GAUVIN

in the semifinals,

but beat Pascale

LEBECQUE to bronze

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Defending Indoor Archery World Cup Champion Braden GEL-

LENTHIEN tied his semifinal with the compound men’s world

number one PJ DELOCHE at five set points each. The pair needed

a shootoff to settle the match, but both shot dead centre.

Second time around, GELLENTHIEN was better – advancing

into a gold medal final against USA compatriot Bridger DEATON,

which he promptly won.

A States archer won the compound women’s gold in Marrakesh,

too – and needed two one-arrow shoot-offs to do it. First against

Naomi JONES in the semifinals, who took bronze, then to beat

Netherlands team member Inge VAN CASPEL in the final.

Rick VAN DER VEN, Dutch Olympic fourth place finisher in Lon-

don, and Great Britain’s Naomi FOLKARD won the recurve com-

petitions. VAN DER VEN beat Italian Matteo FISSORE in four sets –

while FOLKARD took all five to beat number one seed Tatiana SEGI-

NA, from Russia. SEGINA had only dropped one set before the gold

medal match. World field champion JC VALLADONT took recurve

men’s bronze, Anna BOTTO the women’s.

Choose between them?

GELLENTHIEN and DELOCHE

shot dead centre Xs in

their semifinal shoot-off

Marrakesh was the first

World Cup event on African soil

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Reo WILDE is the undisputed king of the Singapore

stage: he won it for a third time in a row in 2013, by

beating his brother Logan in the compound men’s final.

It wasn’t an easy match. The siblings traded blows

until the fifth and final set, when Reo edged ahead.

Reo’s gold-medal-winning World Games mixed

team partner shut out two-time world champion Albina

LOGINOVA in the compound women’s gold medal match.

Erika JONES, after only surrendering two set points to

Christie COLIN in the semis, cruised to a 6-0 victory over

the experienced Russian.

Rare indoor competitors, team India bagged silver and

bronze on the recurve men’s podium – but it was JC VAL-

LADONT with gold. Tarundeep RAI had been on something of

a hot streak before meeting the Frenchman in the final.

VALLADONT let RAI have just two set points on his way to

winning gold.

The recurve women’s podium was a clean sweep – but not

for India. The feared LH Team, a professional squad from Ko-

rea, made their first appearance of the last indoor season in

Singapore – and proceeded to beat everyone.

JEON Sungeun, who medalled at the Wuxi 2013

World Archery Youth Championships just months before

the Singapore event, beat teammate KIM Min Jong in

a 6-0 final. Even if KIM Yu Mi had lost the bronze, it

still would have been an all-Korea top three: CHANG

Hye Jin came in fourth.

Indoor Archery World Cup Final medallists (senior)Category Recurve men Recurve women Compound men Compound women

Gold JC VALLADONT JEON Sungeun Reo WILDE Erika JONES

Silver Tarundeep RAI KIM Min Jong Logan WILDE Albina LOGINOVA

Bronze Atanu DAS KIM Yu Mi Steve ANDERSON Christie COLIN

twoStage Singapore

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Erika JONES shut out Albina

LOGINOVA in the Singapore

compound women’s final

JC VALLADONT, French world

field champion, during qualifications

KAMINSKI beat

BANJEREE before

losing to JC

VALLADONT

Team LH in their first appearance

of the year: a clean sweep of

the recurve women’s podium

WILDE brothers: Reo (left) and Logan (right)

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Indoor Archery World Cup Final medallists (senior)Category Recurve men Recurve women Compound men Compound women

Gold JC VALLADONT KIM Yu Mi Peter ELZINGA Erika JONES

Silver Thomas FAUCHERON PARK Se Hui Mike SCHLOESSER Camilla SOEMOD

Bronze Sjef VAN DEN BERG Aida ROMAN Levi MORGAN Janine MEISSNER

threeStage TelfordJean-Charles VALLADONT beat

French teammate and friend

Thomas FAUCHERON in the

Telford recurve men’s final

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Thomas FAUCHERON took the lead early in the recurve men’s

gold medal match at Telford. Two sets down, Jean-Charles

VALLADONT – FAUCHERON’s teammate in the French squad –

rallied and recovered.

Jean-Charles won the next three sets, finishing with two

perfect 30s to secure his second stage gold in a row, after

Singapore, and his third series podium of the year. FAUCHERON

had knocked out top ranked ELLISON in a quarterfinal shoot-off,

posting a closer-to-the-middle 10.

Sjef VAN DEN BERG – who was seeded second after qualifica-

tion – beat veteran German indoor and field archer Sebastian

ROHRBERG to bronze.

Mexico’s Olympic silver medallist Aida ROMAN was able

to put a spot in Korean Team LH’s dominance of the recurve

women’s event in Telford.

She beat Singapore gold medallist JEON Sungeun in the

bronze final, finishing with nine-straight 10s and three per-

fect-30 sets.

The all-Korean recurve women’s gold

medal match went to a second shoot-off –

and both shot 10 for a second time

Peter ELZINGA, shooting during his

final against Mike SCHLOESSER

The shoot-off arrow that put

ELZINGA into the final

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KIM Yu Mi, who equalled the ranking round world record during

qualification (and shot a 9 with her last arrow), converted her

top seeding into recurve women’s gold.

The final went to two shoot-offs. KIM and PARK Se Hui shot

identical 10s with their first arrows, and were close to needing

a third decider when they repeated those 10s with their second

shots. The judge chose a winner, though: KIM.

Erika JONES beat Camilla SOEMOD, 6-2, in the compound

women’s final – for her second stage gold in a row.

USA compound archer Levi MORGAN shot his first international

outside of America in Telford. The highly-touted 3D pro was

dominant in the eliminations matches, before losing to Peter

ELZINGA in a semifinal shoot-off. ELZINGA’s arrow was a clean

centre – but MORGAN went on to win bronze.

ELZINGA, then, won compound men’s gold over Dutch inter-

national teammate Mike SCHLOESSER – the reigning outdoor

world champion. The tense match took all five sets, with the

pair drawing all but one.

ELZINGA celebrates winning

compound men’s goldJC VALLADONT enters the finals arena

Janine MEISSNER qualified well,

won compound women’s bronze

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Indoor Archery World Cup Final medallists (senior)Category Recurve men Recurve women Compound men Compound women

Gold Rick VAN DER VEN PARK Se Hui Seb PEINEAU Erika JONES

Silver Matteo FISSORE CHANG Hye Jin Braden GELLENTHIEN Crystal GAUVIN

Bronze Brady ELLISON KIM Yu Mi Levi MORGAN Rosalia DOMINGUEZ

FinalLas Vegas2013/14 Indoor Archery World Cup Final

compound men’s champion Seb PEINEAU

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Athletes’ scores from the first two days of the three-day Ve-

gas Shoot are used to calculate the Indoor Archery World

Cup ranking points assigned for the fourth stage.

The top sixteen archers in each of the four competition divi-

sions – compound and recurve men and women – are then

invited to participate in the Indoor Archery World Cup Final on

Saturday evening, day two, in Las Vegas.

Erika JONES and Jean-Charles VALLADONT were clear fa-

vourites in the compound women’s and recurve men’s divisions

respectively – both coming off the back of two stage wins in a

row, at Singapore and Telford.

The world number one from the States, JONES converted

her top seed into Indoor World Cup Final gold. She didn’t drop

a point in her final, shooting three 30-point sets to shut Crystal

GAUVIN out.

JC VALLADONT wasn’t so successful. He lost only his sec-

ond match of the international indoor season, to the same man

that beat him the first time.

Italian Matteo FISSORE beat VALLADONT in the Marrakesh

semifinals – and in the Las Vegas quarters.

FISSORE proceeded to beat the USA’s LAZAROFF – who lost

the bronze medal match to Brady ELLISON – before contesting

gold with Rick VAN DER VEN.

Marrakesh gold medallist Rick admitted to not feeling on top

form for the Vegas event, especially the two days of shooting that

comprised stage four, but forced himself into a groove for the

Finals that saw him score nothing less than a 29 in a single set.

After beating ELLISON in a semifinal shoot-off, VAN DER VEN

claimed the recurve men’s Indoor World Cup title in four sets,

6-2, over FISSORE. The Italian simply could not keep up.

Team LH got revenge on Aida ROMAN for stealing a Telford

podium spot from them in Telford, KIM Min Jong knocking the

Mexican athlete out in the second round. KIM would lose the

bronze to another KIM on her team, Yu Mi, before PARK Se Hui

took recurve women’s gold ahead of CHANG Hye Jin. Still a

Korea – and LH – one, two, three and four!

Erika JONES beat defending

Indoor World Cup Champion

Andrea GALES on her way to gold

Korean team LH: gold, silver, bronze Brothers Reo and

Logan hug it out

after their first round

match; Logan won

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Ranked 15, Sebastien PEINEAU beat outdoor world champion

Mike SCHLOESSER in a first round shoot-off. He then won his

quarterfinal, with a shoot-off, before taking his semifinal in a

conventional four sets.

It earned him a crack at Braden GELLENTHIEN in a true title

match – since Braden won the Indoor World Cup Final the pre-

vious year. PEINEAU started strong. Really strong: 30, 30 and

30. At 5-1 up, he needed just a draw to take gold – and that’s

exactly what PEINEAU got with the last set. A draw, and a win.

PEINEAU’s first victim SCHLOESSER did get revenge during The

Vegas Shoot just a day after. Aged just 20, he became the first

ever European archer to win the competition – the most popular,

well-known and followed open-entry indoor archery event in

the world.

(An astounding achievement considering the calibre of com-

petition, and the number of top European athletes that have

come close.)

The last man SCHLOESSER beat to win Vegas: PEINEAU!

Indoor Archery World Cup 2014/20158-9 November Indoor Archery World Cup stage 1 Marrakesh (MAR)

6-7 December Indoor Archery World Cup stage 2 Bangkok (THA)

23-25 January Indoor World Cup stage 3 Nimes (FRA)

6-7 February Indoor World Cup stage 4 and Final Las Vegas (USA)

Reo WILDE ducked out early,

beaten by his own brother, Logan

JC VALLADONT lost his

second match of the

international indoor season

to the same person he lost

the first: Matteo FISSORE

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Words Chris WELLS

World Archery

Communications Manager

Images Dean ALBERGA

World Archery

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French translation

Jean-Denis GITTON

FFTA Communication

Rick VAN DER VEN and Jean-Charles VALLADONT

were impressive over the 2013/14 indoor sea-

son. VAN DER VEN won the Indoor World Cup stage

at Marrakesh and the tour Final at Las Vegas, while

VALLADONT took gold at the other two legs: Singa-

pore and Telford.

In 2014, both Rick and JC are the most experi-

enced in their respective international squads – as

the average age of the French and Dutch recurve

teams is around 23!

Neither men climbed the podium at Nimes

2014, the World Archery Indoor Championships

held in February, which was something of a sur-

prise considering their recent pedigree.

World Archery caught up with the pair as they pre-

pared to shoot qualification in the South of France.

Chris WELLS Two of the most talented archers

right now, Rick VAN DER VEN and Jean-Charles

VALLADONT. Thanks for getting together! How

is it to be here in Nimes?

Jean-Charles VALLADONT Excellent. I’m used to

it, so…!

Rick VAN DER VEN Yes, we come here a lot, but

it’s nice to be at a world championships here.

World Archery caught up with a pair of recurve archers with world and European titles to their young names – and leading the pack on the international stage

Head to head: VAN DER VEN and VALLADONT

Rick and Jean-Charles have impressive

resumes, but both are only in their twenties

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CW Of course, Nimes is usually an Indoor World Cup stage:

what’s different about it this year?

RvdV The level is higher as it’s a worlds, and there’s a different

feel about the competition venue. Everyone’s wearing their interna-

tional colours rather than sponsor shirts.

JCV For me, it’s fairly similar. I’m here to focus solely on me, not

anyone else!

CW So focusing on your archery, you’ve both been success-

ful – but particularly so inside this year. What makes you so

good indoors?

RvdV We have two different seasons in the year: indoors and out-

doors. In the break, we get that chance to relax and replenish. It

gives you that bit of a mental kick, allows you to come back bigger

and better.

I had that kick this season, I’ve come back indoors better than I

have ever been before.

JCV For me, indoors is a much bigger mental game. You have to

cope with your head far more to achieve indoors.

CW Talk to me about that mental game.

RvdV Every nine you shoot makes you lose that set. Outdoors, you

can shoot a nine and it’s okay. That’s the pressure of indoors – you

have to shoot straight 10s to win any given set.

JCV It’s really very easy to shoot a 10 indoors because the zone

is so big and close – I mean, compared to outdoors where it is a

good distance away. Your mental game has to be so much stronger

than outdoors because it takes more effort to keep it inside that

10, even if it is big.

You’ve got to concentrate and focus more, because you’re worry-

ing about missing a target that you know you can hit, easily. It’s all

about shot process.

CW More effort, do you still enjoy it?

JCV Oui! It makes a real differentiation between practice and com-

petition. It’s not the same mental behaviour for each. It’s really easy

to shoot 10s in practice, when you’re shooting indoors, but it’s all

different when you go to compete.

RvdV I actually enjoy indoors more than outdoors. I started indoors

first and was pretty late going outdoors. I enjoy the tournaments and

the pressure of it all, and the difference between a 10 and a nine.

Don’t misunderstand me: I like outdoors! But I probably enjoy

indoors more.

CW And there’s no wind indoors, of course!

RvdV [laughs] There’s no wind for anybody! It’s the same for all

the archers on the line.

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At the end of the day, it only depends on each archer whether he

shoots a 10 or a nine.

Having said that though, with the set system and alternate shoot-

ing outdoors one archer can have wind and shoot a nine – and the

next archer no wind and shoot a 10.

It can make a difference in the match… but that is the game

we play.

CW Is there anything, technique wise, you have to focus on

more indoors?

RvdV Most of the time I try to do everything the same, but some-

times I make adjustments. It’s not good to be always searching for

the perfect feeling. Better to just start shooting.

My form actually changes a bit – the real small details – every day.

JCV It’s all about alignment. Shoulders should be in a straight line

towards the target – in the same direction, it’s so important. Apart

from that it’s all in your head.

CW Why did you start indoors in the Netherlands, Rick – is

it true that most clubs have an indoor facility but very few

an outdoor?

RvdV Yes, most don’t have an outdoor range. But more and more

have acquired them in the last couple of years. We have some re-

ally big clubs that have serious outdoor ranges.

CW What’s the traditional round shot by Dutch archers?

RvdV One arrow at 25 metres, 36 times! That’s how indoor archery

really started in the Netherlands. It’s the main tournament in the

south of the country, parts of Belgium and Italy… a little, but not

as much.

JCV France, too!

CW Do you both still shoot in these kind of tournaments?

RvdV Only if my club wants me to. We have a special competition

every year, to find the best club in the Netherlands – and I maybe

shoot this kind of tournament three times a year.

I have to use the practice end to get a sight mark usually because

I haven’t trained at 25 metres at all.

JCV No… in France it’s only for fun. I’m a high-level archer and I

only shoot 18 metres indoors. I don’t do many things for fun.

CW Understandable – and it’s admirable that you still shoot

the format for your club sometimes, Rick.

RvdV When time permits! I have a busy schedule…

CW You both say you concentrate a lot more indoors, so what

do you do for fun?

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Rick VAN DER VENNetherlands

Recurve man Age: 23

World Ranking: 5 Best World Ranking: 4 (20 May 2014)

First year in national team: 2008

Club: De Vriendenkring 1987

Profession: archer, mechanical engineer

2014 Indoor World Cup (individual)

Stage Venue Position

1 Marrakesh Winner

2 Singapore DNA

3 Telford 17th

4 and Final Las Vegas Winner

2013 Archery World Cup (individual)

Stage Venue Position

1 Shanghai 17th

2 Antalya 17th

3 Medellin 4th

4 Wroclaw 33rd

Final Paris DNQ

Current titles

European Champion (outdoors)

European Team Champion (outdoors)

Other results

Nimes 2014 world indoors team bronze

Belek/Antalya 2013 world outdoors team silver

London 2012 Olympic Games 4th place

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Nimes 2014 world indoors team bronze

Belek/Antalya 2013 world outdoors team silver

London 2012 Olympic Games 4th place

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Jean-Charles VALLADONTFrance

Age: 25 Recurve man

Best World Ranking: 11 (current) World Ranking: 11

First year in national team: 2007

Club: Torpes

Profession: archer

2014 Indoor World Cup (individual)

Stage Venue Position

1 Marrakesh Bronze

2 Singapore Winner

3 Telford Winner

4 and Final Las Vegas 7th

2013 Archery World Cup (individual)

Stage Venue Position

1 Shanghai 6th

2 Antalya 33rd

3 Medellin 33rd

4 Wroclaw 9th

Final Paris DNQ

Current titles

World Archery Field Champion

Other results

Belek/Antalya 2013 world outdoors team bronze

Torino 2011 and Ulsan 2009 world outdoors team silver

Beijing 2008 Olympian

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Belek/Antalya 2013 world outdoors team bronze

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Beijing 2008 Olympian

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JCV I’m a man of the outdoors, a man of nature. Walking, hiking…

all that.

RvdV I watch movies. Or shoot some more.

CW Do you live at a training centre?

JCV Not anymore, actually. I live in a big house with four other

people. I wanted to get away from the training centre, because I

wanted a real break in the day.

I’m training from morning to evening, all day long, and then I want

my own space, my own home. I’ve been living in this house for two

years now.

CW Are you shooting better since you’ve moved out?

JCV Yes, and I’m happier. It’s changed a lot.

CW What about you, Rick?

RvdV I just finished school, four weeks ago, so I wasn’t at the

training centre in Papendaal all that much. Studies are important,

so I concentrated on them.

I’ll probably move back after these world championships and stay

there four days a week. Last year it was more one day a week, but

it doesn’t make all that much difference to me.

I shoot at my local club at home every day. The club is only 20

minutes drive away. It works for me.

CW Let’s talk about this indoor season. Jean-Charles, you

lost two matches all year indoors coming into Nimes, both

to Matteo FISSORE from Italy. Are you… glad he’s not here?

JCV [laughs] He’s not my black beast!

RvdV [laughs] What?

JCV [smiling] An opponent that always beats you!

Matteo is a really good archer, a good opponent – and I was just

unlucky in Vegas because he shot really well. I shot good, but he

shot way better. In Marrakesh, he beat me in a shoot-off.

It doesn’t bother me that I lose to him twice. It’s just not in my mind –

and really, it’s just a coincidence.

I’ve got nothing against him, and I’m not glad he’s not here. It’s actu-

ally a bit sad, he’s a good archer, good guy – and he speaks French.

CW Rick, you are Indoor Archery World Cup Final Champion

right now, since you won the 2014 Final in Las Vegas. Must

have been great?

RvdV It was a fantastic feeling for me – and for all the Dutch there,

actually. Mike SCHLOESSER won The Vegas Shoot tournament and

I got gold in the World Cup, so we had a lot to celebrate.

Johan VAN DRUNEN, owner of JVD – the big distribution centre

in the Netherlands – was at Vegas. He told us to be downstairs at

7pm on Sunday evening and we’d go out to dinner.

We got downstairs from our hotel and there was a huge limousine

waiting to pick us up!

We went out, had a great night: dinner, chatting and then an early

night – because we had to leave at about 7am.

JCV After no sleep!

[Both laugh]

CW Which was the bigger win, Marrakesh – as the first ever

World Cup stage on African soil – or Vegas?

RvdV Probably Vegas, because it’s a bigger tournament and the Fi-

nal. Marrakesh is still a World Cup. It doesn’t matter to me whether

it’s in Nimes or Telford or Singapore from an archery side. It’s still

a World Cup.

JCV Vegas is my favourite.

CW Why?

JCV Parce que… [pauses] parce que Vegas! [laughs]

It’s Vegas baby. There is so many things to do around the competi-

tion. Sightseeing and shopping… the Grand Canyon.

CW A little time on the tables?

JCV No!

RvdV [cuts in] Yes he is! First day I arrived in Vegas, I saw him at

the table doing tricks with his chips [mimes flipping casino chips

between his fingers].

[Both laugh]

JCV I really enjoy the place. Vegas is just only archery but so much

more. It’s a real event.

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Rick VAN DER VEN came fourth at

the London 2012 Olympic Games

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VALLADONT says his highlight of the

2013/2014 indoor season was the

Telford Indoor World Cup stage final

against Thomas FAUCHERON

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RvdV I agree, Marrakesh was fantastic to go to – especially be-

cause I hadn’t been before – and Telford did an awesome job for a

first event, but Vegas is still the big tournament of the year.

JCV Singapore was also really nice. It’s a very interesting country,

but it’s nothing like Vegas. It was really great to see the city for

three days, but it’s quite a small city. It was a good length for a visit.

Vegas, however, you could stay for a month.

CW What was the best moment of this last indoor season

for you? Best match?

JCV The final of Telford. Shooting against Thomas [FAUCHERON].

He’s a good friend, but once we shot the first two ends I had to

switch my mental game from being friends to being opponents. I

had to convince myself to make the difference at that moment.

I was able to and it made me extremely glad. We were – and still are

– friends, but we were opponents, too. The switch worked and I won.

CW For you, Rick, what was your best?

RvdV Probably winning Vegas and the World Cup Final.

I was shooting really well in the weeks before Marrakesh, so I was

expecting to do well there, shoot well. Not necessarily win it – it’s

terrible to assume that – but get a medal for sure.

At Vegas, though, I couldn’t hit anything in the weeks before. I just

showed up to see what would happen.

How I shot on Sunday in The Vegas Shoot, that’s how I would ex-

pect myself to shoot. I’m glad I could pull it all together in the

elimination rounds for the World Cup Final.

It’s my best memory – so far. Hopefully I still have time to get a

better memory!

CW On the Saturday in Vegas you shoot in the daytime,

sometimes early morning, in the main competition – then

late at night for the World Cup Final. Is that a problem for

you? And what do you do in the gap?

RvdV If we shoot at 7am, we finish at nine or 10 and then have

to wait until four in the afternoon or even seven in the evening. We

go watch a movie in the room or head to the Vegas strip and walk

around a little bit.

Back by 2pm to get something to eat and relax in the room, before

shooting again.

JCV Yeah, casino and shopping. I go to the Bass Pro Shop! It’s a

huge fishing, archery and outdoors store. Really huge. I’ve spent

four or five hours there before.

CW Sounds fun! Okay, we’re in Nimes and we have a com-

bined youth-senior championships, are there any of your

young teammates we should be keeping a close eye on?

JCV Thomas KOENIG. He’s shooting as a junior man here – and he

shot a perfect 300 for 30 arrows at our national selections. It made

for a 595 total in the end.

RvdV We have Sjef [VAN DEN BERG]. He can get frustrated at

times, but if he gets off that – then he’ll probably be really big. But,

he has to want it.

CW Were you like that when you were younger?

RvdV Not that much. I had talent, but I still really wanted it. I

didn’t enjoy school, and when school didn’t go very well I just

started shooting more. When I finished school I shot even more –

I really wanted it, set goals for myself and though I got frustrated,

I didn’t show it.

Sjef has the tendency to show it a bit more. Throw his bow

around or slam it into the ground. Hopefully he can get over that

in the future.

Don’t forget the even newer Dutch guy, too. His name is Jan VAN

TONGEREN; he is a 15-year-old junior who is already really good.

CW Both your senior teams are quite young, do you take on

more leadership-type roles now and in the future? We don’t

speak about it so much in archery, but it’s true that there are

leaders in teams.

JCV Definitely.

RvdV I’m the oldest one in our team. I’m 23 now, and I’m the

oldest one. I came fourth in the London Olympic Games and be-

cause I’ve achieved more people see me as the leading person

in the team.

JCV Since Romain GIROULLE, the old leader of the French team

moved on, I have taken that mantle. Someone the team can rely on

during matches. Leadership is all based on results.

Romain was the natural leader because of his results. He was the

best. Being a natural born leader goes hand in hand with being a

winner. It’s not about being the oldest or the youngest for us.

CW Do results come with that leader personality, is it a two

way thing?

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JCV Absolutely. I try to joke, entertain the others – be the funny

guy. People say I’m like the glue. It would be different if I were not

there, I think.

When someone leaves the team, like it was when Romain left,

things break.

You need that person – that leader – to keep it together.

CW Rick, what do you admire about Jean-Charles?

RvdV He can shoot great scores with aluminium arrows… and I

totally can’t.

He’s won two world cups this season, great outdoors and at field.

A good all rounder.

CW And Jean-Charles, what about Rick?

JCV Technique. Shooting form.

RvdV [laughs] It works for me.

JCV It’s clean, I like it. But you do look funny with your lips moving

and kissing when you shoot!

[Both laugh while Rick makes funny movements with his mouth]

RvdV That’s the horrible thing when I watch myself on television.

I’m always thinking: what the hell am I doing there? I don’t even

know I’m doing it!

JCV Aside from the mouth, I like the straightness of Rick’s form.

How directed towards the target it is when he releases.

RvdV That’s what people tell me. My bow shoulder is way to high,

and I know it, but I can’t put it down – it stays there – and I’m not

properly in-line until I release.

Then it’s in-line and to the target. It works for me, and that’s the

main thing.

CW What do you call kissing the string in French?

JCV The Van der Ven? [both laugh]

CW Fantastic! A good note to finish on. One final question:

When was the last time you shot against each other indoors –

and who will win the next match?

JCV European Championships… he won, 6-4.

RvdV If we meet again soon, it’s a coin toss.

JCV The strongest would win! [laughs]

At age 23, VAN DER VEN (right) is the most

experienced on the young Dutch team –

who have already won European titles and

picked up bronze at Nimes 2014

Team SHIBUYA rules Target Archery!

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

Sergio PAGNI, ITA 2010 & 2011 WA World Cup Champion

Natalia VALEEVA, ITA Multiple World Champion

Christopher PERKINS, CAN 2011 World Champion

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The award was expanded to include both a male and female

category for 2013 – where previously there had only been one

overall winner.

Seven archers were shortlisted in each category, before thou-

sands of the archery public voted on their favourite through World Ar-

chery’s social media accounts. Members of World Archery’s Athletes

and Coaches Committees ranked their favourites in a separate poll.

The two votes were combined to give an average, and shortlisted

athletes were ranked on this overall figure.

It is the biggest response to date for a World Archery public vote –

with athletes, familes, friends and federations getting behind their

nominated candidates.

Turn the page to discover who won, and see some national

sportsperson of the year award winners below.

Over 12,000 people from the archery public and World Archery’s athletes and coaches committees voted on their favourite athletes of last year

Athlete of the Year 2013

The Commonwealth Games gold medallist, who has over

220,000 followers on Facebook, picked up her first po-

dium of 2013 in Shanghai before two last-eight finishes in

Medellin and Wroclaw.

That won her a ticket to Paris, and her fourth Archery World

Cup Final in a row. And for the third time since 2011, Deepika

KUMARI made it to the gold medal match – where she nar-

rowly missed out on the title to Korea’s YUN Ok Hee.

At the age of just 19, KUMARI’s titles include Common-

wealth Games Champion, world cadet and junior crowns and

five World Cup stage podiums – including Antalya gold in

2012 – as well as those three Archery World Cup Final silver

medals over the last three years.

KUMARI and her fellow recurve women were also named

Indian Team of the Year, thanks to gold medals in Medellin and

Wroclaw to close out the 2013 season.

Three-time World Cup Final silver medallist named India’s sportsperson of the year

Denmark choose Maja JAGER as international athlete of 2013

Current recurve women’s World Champion Maja JAGER beat mo-

torcar driver Tom KRISTENSEN – who has won multiple 24-hour

races at Le Mans – and World Champion Skeet shooter Jesper

HANSEN to the award live on national Danish television.

“Maja JAGER is the rightful winner,” said President of the Dan-

ish National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of

Denmark Niels NYGAARD. “At the World Championships in

Turkey she took out all the top archers one by one, among

them the Olympic Champion from London.”

JAGER had not made it past the 1/16 elimination round in

an international competition during the 2012 and 2013 sea-

sons before upsetting the world numbers one and two – KI Bo

Bae and YUN Ok Hee from Korea – on the way to gold at the

Belek World Championships last October.

After picking up the award, an ecstatic Maja JAGER em-

phasised how much she appreciated the recognition. “It’s a

huge acknowledgement,” said the Danish star – and one that

comes at a good time for archery in the country, which will

host the next World Championships from 26 July to 2 August

2015 in Copenhagen.

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Compound man Age: 29

World Ranking: 11 Best World Ranking: 2

The Danish compound archer made the final

four in each of the first three World Cup

stages in 2013, before storming to gold

at his third World Cup Final. Leading the

Danish compound team to a world title

in Belek and dominating the Berlin

Open to finish the year solidified

DAMSBO’s claim on this honour.

He also won the 2013 interna-

tional Act of Fair Play award.

Martin DAMSBODenmark

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Men’s athlete of the year

*World Rankings and ages correct as of 25 June 2014

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Mike SCHLOESSER Netherlands

OH Jin Hyek Korea

John STUBBS Great Britain

Compound man Age: 20

World Ranking: 5 Best World Ranking: 5

Twenty-year-old SCHLOESSER’s first international po-

dium was a big one. He was the highest compound scorer

in every eliminations stage at the 2013 World Archery

Championships before beating experienced French ar-

cher PJ DELOCHE by five points in the gold medal match

in Belek. A new fan favourite? SCHLOESSER had 41%

of the archery public’s vote for Athlete of the Year!

Recurve man Age: 32

World Ranking: 2 Best World Ranking: 1

Since getting over the gold medal hump at London 2012 (of

all places), OH has found re-climbing the podium steps a

great deal easier! He did it at the Shanghai World Cup stage

to start 2013, then in Turkey, then in Paris at the World Cup

Final. Korea’s leading recurve man was not able to complete

the triple (Olympics–World Cup Final–Worlds), as although

he won mixed team gold with KI Bo Bae at the World Cham-

pionships in Belek, the individual title evaded him…

Compound man Age: 49

Para World Ranking: 3

The two golds and a silver STUBBS collected helped

Great Britain to seven-medal haul at the World Para-

Archery Championships in 2013. He took the individual

compound open title, improving on his silver from 2011,

team compound title and won the mixed team sil-

ver with double-Paralympic champion partner Danielle

BROWN. No para-archer had a better time in Bangkok!

Compound man Age: 39

World Ranking: 2 Best World Ranking: 1

Although not quite as phenomenal as his record-setting

2012 (three World Cup stage wins in a row and six individual

golds – and a silver – out of seven international tournaments),

Reo WILDE added a seventh career World Cup stage win in

Medellin last season. Partnered with World Archery’s Female

Athlete of the Year for 2013, Erika JONES, the States com-

pound archer also picked up the World Games mixed team title.

Recurve man Age: 19

World Ranking: 1 Best World Ranking: 1

…when new Korean face LEE Seungyun beat OH in the Belek

recurve gold medal match. LEE, in his first international

season, never finished out of the top eight in competition. As

well as his world title, he qualified for the World Cup Final

courtesy of an individual gold medal at the fourth World

Cup stage of the year in Wroclow. Definitely one to watch.

Recurve man Age: 25

World Ranking: 11 Best World Ranking: 11

Reigning World Field Archery Champion from 2012, Jean

Charles VALLADONT competed with a vengeance in the

two Indoor Archery World Cup legs of this season in 2013.

Second in Marrakesh and winner in Singapore, the recurve

archer has been on a roll since his emotional last arrow in

Belek – a 10 that helped secure team bronze over Korea.

Reo WILDE USA

LEE Seungyun Korea

Jean-Charles VALLADONT France

2 (26%)

4 (15%)

6 (4%)

3 (15%)

5 (9%)

7 (4%)

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Compound woman Age: 25

World Ranking: 1 Best World Ranking: 1

Compound women’s world number one

Erika JONES had four World Cup silvers

in 2013, the last coming at her third Final

in four years. But the 25-year-old’s best

performance of the year: individual and

mixed team gold at the World Games in

Cali… or winning a massive 39% of the

public vote on the way to being named

World Archery’s Female Athlete of 2013!

Erika JONESUSA

1 (27%)

Women’s athlete of the year

*World Rankings and ages correct as of 25 June 2014

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YUN Ok Hee Korea

Kristina HEIGENHAUSER Germany

Compound woman Age: 19

World Ranking: 2 Best World Ranking: 2

Individual gold on home soil at July 2013’s Medellin World

Cup stage announced LOPEZ’s arrival as a world class archer.

Since then, she picked up bronze at the World Games, a

Junior World Champion title, moved up to second in the world

rankings… and has become something of a fan favourite.

Recurve woman Age: 29

World Ranking: 1 Best World Ranking: 1

At the end of 2010, YUN Ok Hee won the World Cup Final

and the Asian Games, before disappearing from inter-

national archery… until 2013. Last year, she won World

Cup stages one and four, took silver at two, and won

the Final, again. Then bronze at the World Champion-

ships confirmed what we already knew: YUN Ok Hee

was back! And she deserves her spot on this list…

Compound woman Age: 26

World Ranking: 4 Best World Ranking: 2

Ex-international pistol shooter Kristina HEIGENHAUSER won the

compound women’s division at the Belek World Championships

in only her second season with the German archery team. She

has climbed the individual podium at seven of the 11 interna-

tional tournaments she has competed at. Not a bad record!

Compound woman Age: 32

Para World Ranking: 5

DAG secured double-gold at last year’s World Para-Archery

Championships in Bangkok. She beat Beijing and Lon-

don Paralympic Champion Dani BROWN (GBR) to the

compound women’s open title, then again to the com-

pound mixed team title with partner Erdoğan AYGAN.

Recurve woman Age: 22

World Ranking: 13 Best World Ranking: 8

…as does the person who knocked YUN out of the World

Championships: Maja JAGER, who also dispatched

Olympic champion KI Bo Bae on her way to gold in

Belek. JAGER was named Denmark’s Athlete of the Year

for her achievement, lives and trains in Korea – and

is certainly a name to watch looking towards Rio.

Recurve woman Age: 29

Para World Ranking: 1

Double Paralympic Champion Zahra NEMATI took re-

venge for her 2011 World Para-Archery Championships

final loss to China’s XIAO Yanhong in 2013. She took

recurve women’s W2 gold in a tense five-set match

in Bangkok, Thailand – and shows no sign of letting

off before the 2014 Asian Para Games in Incheon.

Burcu DAG Turkey

Maja JAGER Denmark

Zahra NEMATI Iran

2 (20%)

4 (11%)

6 (6%)

3 (19%)

5 (11%)

7 (5%)

Sara LOPEZ Colombia

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Strategising communications is no easy task –

and most archery federations have other priori-

ties that take precedence. There are two key areas

that should never be ignored, however. Social media

and media relations don’t have to be full-time jobs,

and just a little focus can go a long way.

Social MediaPlatforms like Facebook and Twitter are a tremen-

dous – and free – promotional tool for federations.

Although social media can seem intimidating, it’s

critical to take advantage of this technology because

so many people, members of the federation and our

target audience, are using it.

Social media can introduce archery to new fans,

make heroes out of top athletes and connect fed-

erations with their current, new and prospective

members. If nothing else, social media is a valuable

customer service tool which, when done correctly,

provides a unique opportunity to interact with a cap-

tive audience – and leave enquirers with a greater

(and public) sense of satisfaction.

Answering a question privately on the telephone

will resolve an issue for one person, but posting the

response publicly on Facebook – for example – will

satisfy that person, anyone else unsure on the same

subject and let people know just how interactive,

friendly and helpful the organisation is.

Facebook is a good example, because in most

countries Facebook is the place to start. With 1.23

billion users worldwide at the end of 2013, it is the

social media giant that cannot be ignored. Getting

started is simple, there’s a quick guide on the next

page. You do need to have a personal account to

start the process – but it doesn’t need to be one

you use!

It’s important to create an organisation page for

the federation rather than use a personal account as

people can like and follow the page – become a fan –

rather than send you a bunch of friend requests!

Posts should be interesting and search for a re-

sponse from your audience – so that people engage

with the content, rather than have it disappear in

their newsfeed. Photos, videos and links tend to

work better than text. Use images that are colourful

and visually appealing.

Time content with your events, and post images

of archers enjoying the sport – not just a 1,000 pic-

tures of the back of people’s heads when they’re

on the shooting line. The more varied the content,

the more you’ll find out what your followers like and

what will grow your fanbase.

Monitor your community, too. Archers love social

media, and they love posting great content. All you

have to do is press the share button to put it in your

page’s newsfeed. For that matter, you should also

follow World Archery, other federations and archery

community pages. They’re interesting and you’ll find

plenty of engaging material to feed to your followers.

Do keep an eye on what people post on your

page. Individuals don’t become angels just because

they’ve logged on to the internet. A positive response

to complainers and a hide of any abusive comments

with a soft warning (the first time, at least) is usually

enough to steer discussions in the right direction.

Most importantly: keep your page up to date. If

all your content is old, then you just will not get fol-

lowers as old content does not get distributed to the

Words Teresa Johnson

World Archery Social

Media Coordinator

While budgets are tight, archery organisations can still make the most of opportunities to spread their message with little investment of time and money

Spread the word: maximising publicity

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Head to ‘Create a Page’:

just type it into the top search bar

Enter some information, including

your federation website and choose a

URL address for your Facebook page.

Make sure that’s something that’s

easy to remember and type – so avoid

using punctuation characters – then

upload your logo as the profile image

Choose the ‘Sports League’ subcategory –

then name your page something suitable…

(your federation name or ‘archery + country’)

Choose the ‘Entertainment’ category

Creating a Facebook page

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Your page is ready to go! Add in a cover photo, start

posting and promoting the sport…

Facebook public. It sounds like a lot of work but, thankfully – you’ll

be glad to hear – it’s not! Not only can you schedule posts to ap-

pear at set times in the future within Facebook itself, but programs

like HootSuite and Sprout Social let you do advanced scheduling

and return useful analytics to help plan for the future.

At the end of the day, what it means is that someone spending

20 minutes on loading in scheduled posts on a Monday morning

can keep a Facebook page up-to-date, engaging and growing for

a whole week. The time investment is not large!

There are lots of other social media platforms that return a lot

for not much time; Instagram and Twitter are currently very popu-

lar, and both communities will help you reach a younger audience –

a bonus for our growing sport!

Instagram is a cool photo-sharing app that lets you create an

account and then share to your public Facebook and Twitter pro-

files. Twitter is a site that’s built for sharing information – news,

links, photos – in 140 characters or less. All three sites (Facebook,

Instagram and Twitter) make use of hashtags.

Hashtags are searchable social media adjectives. They de-

scribe something. Create a hashtag for each of your major events,

and share them far ahead of time with your public: on event sig-

nage, event web pages, social media and any other communica-

tions platforms.

Make sure your hashtag is simple and intuitive. The hashtag

for the Rio 2016 Games is #Rio2016, for the Antalya world cups

#WCAntalya and the next worlds in Copenhagen: #WAC2015.

The goal during events is to get participants posting their photos

and updates and including the event hashtag – to create an online,

searchable conversation about the subject. It is a great way to get

free publicity for archery, your federation and the tournament itself.

Another great technique is taking photos at your events, and

sharing them in Facebook albums immediately after competition

on event days. During event announcements, encourage partici-

pants to like the federation on Facebook and follow on Twitter for

event updates, photos and more. You can also use Twitter to keep

fans at home up to date on event scores and provide some com-

mentary around the competition – a service that has been proven

to drive fan loyalty.

It’s essential in this day and age to have a social presence –

and it can be delivered easily… and it’s getting easier.

With so many young people involved in archery, why not

task one of them with managing your social media platforms?

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Media RelationsGetting a leg up in your relations with the press is a step-by-step

task – but reporters are much more likely to talk about the sport if

they get contact and news directly from the governing body. And,

importantly, know where to go to if they have a question.

Building a media list is the best place to start. Find out

who’s been writing about the sport already in your country by

searching under the news tab in Google. Click on articles, the au-

thoring reporter’s name and then see if you can find their email ad-

dress. If not another Google search – authors name + email – will

usually do the trick!

If you can’t find their details, take note of the URL and publication.

You can always submit stories via the agency’s contact form.

Once you’ve compiled your media list, make a calendar of

story ideas that are newsworthy. Take a look at your high-profile

events, and note any interesting athlete stories that may be worth

asking a journalist to cover. Remember that the most compelling

story is one relating to a human interest angle, so journalists will

always be most interested in stories of struggle and triumph or a

piece that otherwise tugs at the heartstrings.

Your calendar doesn’t have to be extensive. Little and regular –

keeping in contact with journalists – is far more valuable than

nothing at all.

The internet is full of great articles on writing press releases,

so do some investigation before you begin. There are a few es-

sentials to keep in mind:

Put the federation logo at the top

Include your contact details

Include the date and location

Make sure the title gets to the point quickly, delivering maxi-

mum impact in as few words as possible

The first two sentences must be strong, get right to the point

of the press release and give the audience (journalists) good

reason to keep reading

Be sure to answer the questions any reader would want to know:

who, what, when, where, why, and how. Read the press release

once for content, spellcheck it, then review it again to be sure it

gets the point across without being too wordy.

Distribute your press release to your media list with a pitch

email that explains why journalists should write about your story.

Either attach the press release to the email or cut and paste it into

the body of your message, below your pitch.

The technique is up to you, but be sure that your pitch ex-

plains what the story is, why it’s important and how the journalist

can contact you for more information. If you have time, tailoring

your pitch to journalist’s writing and readership will lead to more

of your material being picked up.

Once you’ve put a press release process in place, building a

media kit is the best way to increase your media audience. It’s a

document that gives more background around a press release –

and gives a quick snapshot of the federation’s world, so that re-

porters don’t have to spend time researching.

A media kit consists of:

Cover sheet: federation logo, a striking photo, two introductory

paragraphs about the federation and the contact details of who-

ever handles media enquiries

Background: contact information at the top, a few paragraphs

introducing the organisation’s mission, vision, history and goals.

Fact sheet: key information like number of followers on social

media, website traffic, number of federation members, list of

major competitions and how many archers are expected. In-

clude a quick profile on any top international athletes (people

stories go further)

Press release: the story the reporter should be writing!

Print the kit on ordinary printer paper and hand it out at tourna-

ments, or email it to journalists you’ve contacted to get complete,

truthful and valuable mentions of archery in the media.

With just a little bit of time investment and thinking outside the

box, federations can reap big publicity dividends without spending

any real money.

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position to take advantage of the ongoing surge in archery interest.

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Iconic venues: payoff for perseverance

Words Chris WELLS

World Archery

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The most well-known archery venue around the

world right now is a cricket ground. Lord’s was

a fitting host to the highest-rated spectator event at

the London Games, but the idea of using an estab-

lished, iconic setting is not new to those familiar with

modern archery events.

Back in 2003, New York hosted the World Ar-

chery Championships in Central Park. Since then,

and the launch of the sport’s premier World Cup tour,

international archery events have been held around

the Mayapan pyramids, in the Olympic capital, over-

looking the Bosphorus and under the Eiffel Tower.

“It brings something extra to the event,” says Mads

BANG AAEN KORNERUP, event director for the 2015

World Championships in Copenhagen. “Even though

it’s been five years since we held the World Cup

Final in Nyhavn harbour, people still talk about it.”

Iconic venues inspire an incidental crowd. Tourist

spots receive thousands of viewers daily, and put-

ting a high-level sports production in an unexpected

place is a fantastic vessel for the positive messages

that international competitions convey.

Don’t worry, though: the icon in the background

isn’t a distraction! At last year’s World Cup Final

Archery is the perfect sport to host in public and impressive venues. It can be challenging, but the hard work reaps dividends – for the sport and setting

The perfect amalgamation of sport and

venue at the Paris 2013 World Cup Final

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in Paris, the archery field was opposite the Champ de Mars and

the most-visited paid monument in the world. But riders on the

open top tour buses travelling down Avenue de New York were

not looking at the Eiffel Tower – most heads were turned in the

opposite direction, past the spectator stands and into the archery

on the Trocadero Fountains.

It attracted a large crowd to free-access spectator areas, and

made people’s trip to the landmark even more memorable than

it was going to be. Not only had tourists seen the famous steel

monument, but they had seen it on a day it would be presented in

association with something quite special: sport.

The first modern Olympics to take advantage of blending im-

ages of setting and sport with archery was Athens. In 2004, the

organising committee held the competition finals at the Panathinai-

kos stadium, which was the centrepoint for the 1896 Games in the

same city.

A combination of modern sport, modern- and ancient-history

– the stadium was build in marble before 300BC – that has been

used as an example and a comparison ever since.

“The event will live longer,” explains Mads. It’s not just those

bystanders on the day that take memories away with them – but

the broadcast images and photography that leave a real impact on

both the sport and venue.

Edinburgh was the first and only city in the United Kingdom to

date to host the Archery World Cup Final. Event Scotland event di-

rector Stuart TURNER remembers the “significant media coverage”,

and Councillor Steve CARDOWNIE called it the “ideal opportunity

for the city to showcase itself to a global audience”.

Neither sport nor venue could have attracted such press inter-

est alone, but the combination and creativity required left quite an

impression. As did the imposing image of a brooding Edinburgh

Castle hanging over one of the world’s elite archers making history

by winning back-to-back titles on the premier series.

Using an established location for sport does come with chal-

lenges. Chris MARSH, competition manager for the archery events

at London 2012, cited the three biggest challenges he faced as

using the iconic aspects of the Lord’s pavilion to greatest effect;

gaining the trust and understanding, and building a relationship

with the incumbent organisation – and fulfilling archery’s techni-

cal requirements in a venue designed for something very different.

These requirements make using iconic venues impossible for

some sports. While a beach volleyball stadium could fit at Horse

Guard’s Parade, stands big enough to hold a crowd of FIFA World

Cup supporters would be impossible.

That’s where archery counts itself lucky. When the competition

reaches its showcase stage, the finals, there are only ever two ar-

chers on the line. The space constraints are minimal: as long as

there is room for stands, somewhere for the athletes to stand and a

spot for the targets at a flat trajectory, the sport really is quite flexible.

Some constraints are not based on space, but rather who uses

it. “You must work together with other residents,” advises Copen-

hagen 2015’s event director Mads, referring to the numerous ca-

fes and restaurants that line the Nyhavn venue used in 2009. “You

cannot interrupt their routine too much.”

If managed correctly, residents soon see the benefits of hosting

the event as much – if not more – than the city and sport itself.

“At Lord’s, we not only successfully protected the integrity of

the venue – structurally as well as the venue’s historical brand,

the ‘Home of Cricket’ – but grew it,” says satisfied com-

petition manager Chris. “The stands were

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London 2012: Lord’s Cricket GroundOlympic Games

Spectators: 61,150 seats

Broadcast audience: 71.5 million peak, average 23.3 million

per minute, cumulative 161,765 million hours watched

Broadcast coverage: OBS worldwide, IOC YouTube channel

Cophenhagen 2009: Nyhavn HarbourWorld Cup FinalSpectators: 3,000+ seats plus 6,000+ casual spectators

Broadcast audience: 100,000 million+ contacts

Broadcast coverage: Live on Archery TV, TRT (Turkey) and

Powernost (Ukraine). Feature story on DR 1 (Denmark) and

Guardian website (UK) on Rio 2016 announcement day.

Highlights on MBC (Korea) and 22 other channels worldwide

Edinburgh 2010: Princes Street GardensWorld Cup FinalSpectators: 4,000+ seats plus 6,000+ casual spectators

Broadcast audience: 100,000 million+ contacts

Broadcast coverage: Live on Archery TV, SBS (Korea)

Highlights on BBC (UK) and 20 other channels worldwide

Paris 2013: Trocadero FountainsWorld Cup Final

Spectators: 6,000+ seats plus 10,000+ casual spectators

Broadcast audience: 100,000 million+ contacts (Repucom report) plus 200,000 cumulative internet

Broadcast coverage: Live on Archery TV, EuroSport (pan-European and international), SBS (Korea),

Equipe 21 (France) and in Myanmar. Features on TF1, France 3 and M6 (France). Extended

highlights on Sports Unlimited platform (165 million homes worldwide), Fox Sport/Star Asia

(Pan-Asia), Setana Africa (Pan-Middle East/Africa), PCTV (Mexico) and more than 17 others

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2006 Archery World Cup Final:

in the Mayapan pyramids, Mexico

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full every day, spectators left hugely satisfied, the event looked

great on television and Lord’s were proud to become the ‘Home

of Archery’, too.”

Each International Olympic Committee member at London 2012

was gifted a Lord’s branded cricket ball with the adjusted ‘Home of

Archery’ slogan emblazoned in gold and featuring a miniature arrow

drilled right through.

Next on archery’s iconic calendar is the Olympic Capital of

Lausanne, which will become the first city to host the sport’s

World Cup Final a second time in September 2014. With views

of Lac Léman and the Swiss Alps in one direction, a beautiful

château and lake-front façade in the other, the harbour at Ouchy

will produce the next set of images that present archery in a

phenomenal setting.

Then it’s on to Copenhagen in 2015, before Rio’s Sambodromo –

the final mile of Brazil’s most famous carnival – has its shot at

usurping Lord’s as the most enjoyed Olympic and Paralympic ar-

chery show ever. Of course, the marathon runners will be well over

the finishing line before any arrows are released.

There is now opportunity to bring sport to places that would

never have been possible in recent decades. With the increased

interest in the broadcast of all sport events, the demand for im-

pressive visuals and imposing images is at an all-time high.

It takes creativity, the will to take on a challenge and huge

amounts of co-operation, but using an established, iconic venue to

host a major archery event can reap huge rewards. For the sport,

for the venue and city – and for the huge numbers of people in-

spired by the beautiful combination of both.

THe most recognisable

archery venue right

now? A cricket ground…

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Youth Olympic Games: Nanjing 2014

Words Deqa NIAMKEY

World Archery Senior

Development Coordinator

Images Dean ALBERGA

World Archery

Official Photographer

Following the first edition of Youth Olympic Games

at Singapore 2010, World Archery’s Develop-

ment Department – in collaboration with Olympic

Solidarity, National Olympic Committees and Global

Sports Development Foundation – put an assistance

programme in place.

The aim was to increase participation of ar-

chers from all continents at the upcoming second

Youth Olympics, which is being held in Nanjing,

China from 16-28 August 2014. The project was

to complement its primary goal by providing as-

sistance to applicable member associations with

the greatest development needs.

In collaboration with each continental association,

training camps and special assistance programmes

were put in place to provide technical and physical

support to archers selected to national teams.

This programme ran throughout the Nanjing

qualification progress – and is ongoing today – with

emphasis on a continental championships, qualifi-

cation events or a specific training camp in view of

these Games.

From Singapore to Nanjing – Youth Olympic Games key in ensuring archery’s development efforts increase elite participation in younger generation

Rick VAN DEN OEVER

shoots for Youth Olympic

silver in the background

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AMERICASThe Americas organised the first continental training camp, with

the expertise of Olympic medalllist Richard PRIESTMAN (GBR). It

contributed tremendously to the success of Argentina, Brazil, Cuba

and Colombia at the Wuxi 2013 World Archery Youth Champion-

ships in China.

AFRICAOver 5-16 April 2014, Windhoek, Namibia hosted Africa’s training

camp, which ran around the continent’s championships and quali-

fication event for the Nanjing Games. Pascal COLMAIRE, World

Archery Development Director, is providing his experience and ex-

pertise to the event.

The Windhoek camp included seven countries, one of which was

a delegation from the Central Africa Republic, a nation in a civil war

state. Head coach Peniel NGABA and Princilla FANGBI, an archer in

the team, reached out to peers with the difficulties they face.

They managed to continue training for Windhoek despite the

unrest at home. Princilla stayed with her coach to practise, leaving

her family – who found refuge at an airport kept safe by the French

army – and embarked on a mission to acquire transits visas for

South Africa to reach Namibia, since the embassies in Bangui re-

main closed through the civil difficulties.

A 1,426km drive to Douala, a very dangerous road, was the

only option to get those visas. “My country is experiencing civil

war,” said head coach NGABA. “Yet the bow, which has been used

throughout history as a weapon, is now gathering various people

together in a friendly environment.”

Xander REDDIG, who will represted Namibia at Nanjing – after

he shot high scores at the end of March 2014 – said:

“What always touches me the most is seeing the language and

culture barriers between participants broken down by a love of ar-

chery. Sport is a universal language, and it is important to transmit

to future generations as a development and educational tool. The

story of the Central Africa Republic team shows members’ true

passion for archery.”

EUROPELjubljana, Slovenia, hosted 33 participants from 11 European

countries from 12-18 May 2014. The camp was conducted by

Filippo CLINI (ITA) and Matija ZLENDER (SLO), archer and member

World Archery’s Athletes Committee.

ASIA and OCEANIAWorld Archery’s Partner Centre in Bangkok ran the fourth and final

combined camp for Asia and Oceana from 6-20 June 2014, con-

ducted by coach Yap Lee CHONG (MAS).

Those countries that do not frequently participate at events gained

valuable experience and adjusted to an unfamiliar competition en-

vironment at these camps. World Archery’s Development Partners

offered financial support to ensure the participation of countries

without the regular budget to attend.

Brazilian archer Marcus DALMEIDA – who has qualified for

the 2014 Archery World Cup Final as well as a Nanjing com-

petitor – proves that these initiatives can improve the lives of

the future generations of international archers. While provid-

ing financial and technical support during talent detection pro-

grammes, these archery stars of five, 10, 15 or 20 years time

get chances they would not have otherwise had.

The mixed team competition at

Singapore mixed athletes from

different nations for the first time

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Marcus did not imagine his life would change in such a short

period of time. From the favelas of Marica, Rio de Janeiro to

national hero status, Marcus is on the right track to offering

Brazil host country medal potential at Rio 2016.

It is effective collaboration between World Archery’s Develop-

ment Department and member assoications that is key in making

these projects a success. “It is the first roll-out of this kind of project,

and our developing national federations have expressed resounding

gratitude for the initiative,” said World Archery Development Depart-

ment Senior Coordinator Deqa NIAMKEY. “It is the chance to give

the young and future archery stars the chance of taking part in the

greatest sporting competition in the world, the Olympic Games.”

A maximum of one archer per nation per

division may compete at Nanjing –

meaning athletes spend more time with

competitors from other sports and more

time shooting alone on the tourament field

Silver medal mixed team from the

Balkan peninsula: Greek archer

PARASKEVOPOULOU and Slovenia’s RAJH

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Fact file: Nanjing 20142nd Summer Youth

Olympic Games

Dates: 16 to 28 August 2014

Estimated athletes: 3,600

Estimated nations: 204

Events: 222 in 28 sports

Motto: Share the Games,

Share our Dreams

Singapore 2010: MedallistsLike the Summer Olympics, Youth Olympic Games include only a recurve archery competition.

Category Boys Girls Mixed team

Gold Ibrahim SABRY (EGY) KWAK Ye-Ji (KOR) Gloria Filippi (ITA) and Anton KAROUKIN (BLR)

Silver Rich VAN DEN OEVER (NED) TAN Ya-Ting (TPE) Zoi PARASKEVOPOULOU (GRE) and Gregor RAJH (SLO)

Bronze Bolot TSBZHITOV (RUS) Tatiana SEGINA (RUS) Begunhan UNSAL (TUR) and Abdul JAFFAR (SIN)

*all competitors at the Youth Olympics are between 14 and 17 years of age.

Athletes at Nanjing 2014 are born on or after 1 January 1997 and on or before 31 December 1999.

Truly-mixed team competitionAt the Youth Olympic Games, the mixed

team archery competition combines two

athletes representing entirely different

countries (and National Olympic Com-

mittees) – that’s why, in the final medal

rankings, a Mixed-NOC team will likely take

the top spot!

It’s a fascinating twist on the popular

competition event, where one male and

one female athlete battle for pair suprem-

acy – as it breaks down barriers between

competitors who may not even be able to

communicate easily as they speak differ-

ent languages.

At Singapore, the truly-mixed team

competition was a resounding success –

and at Nanjing, the event will make use of

the new set-system format. It is certainly

something to look forward to.

Archery at the Youth Olympic Games

Games: Singapore 2010 Nanjing 2014

Competition dates: 18-21 August 24-28 August

Competitors 64 64

Nations: 41 43

Key new nations at Nanjing: Venezuela,

Guatemala, Benin, Libya and the Philippines

Singapore 2010 girls podium:

(L-R) KWAK, TAN and SEGINA

A unique challenge and experience: winning the Youth Olympic mixed team event

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Words and images

Dr James PARK

and James LARVEN

Australia Archery

Images Dean ALBERGA

World Archery

Official Photographer

Archers score more if their arrow groups are op-

timally placed on the target… that is a fact. If

your tight group of six arrows is in the nine, then you

won’t score as much as if your group was in and

around the 10.

Observation of target faces at indoor events –

where archers have individual target faces – over

many years suggests that athletes do not always

pay enough attention to setting their sights cor-

rectly. Often, groupings are off-centre, resulting in

considerable score loss compared to the highest-

possible score they could have obtained with the

same groups.

Under the rules used up until last year, both re-

curve and compound archers shot individual target

faces at 50 metres. Compound archers for their

72-arrow 50-metre ranking round and recurves in

the FITA – now 1440 – round that will no longer be

shot at international competitions.

We saw an opportunity to measure how well the

best archers in the world set their sights – and

compare the two bow styles before the rules

changed and recurve athletes would only shoot at

70 metres.

World Archery kindly agreed to our research proj-

ect, so long as we did not disrupt the events and any

archers shooting in them! We selected stage one of

the 2013 Archery World Cup at Shanghai and the

Belek/Antalya 2013 World Archery Championships

as the venues for our data collection.

It would be remiss not to thank the staff and of-

ficials at both events for being so helpful and assist-

ing us to collect the information we required.

At Shanghai, we photographed every target fac-

es following the 36 arrows shot at 50 metres by the

recurve archers. We also had the opportunity to take

photographs after 30 metres, so added the figures

into the study for a second comparison.

There’s a difference between shooting fantastic groups of arrows on the target and scoring well. Just how many points could top archers make if they moved where they were aiming?

International archery arrow groups

Target face example: compound 50 metresArchers stand to gain an average of 3 points every 36 arrows

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Collecting information was slightly more difficult from the com-

pound athletes, as compound archers’ faces change a little more

regularly. We photographed targets after compound practice ends

and after the first six scoring ends of their 72-arrow 50-metre

round. Some were photographed a further time, at the end of the

ranking round.

It was a vast amount of data to process. About 20,000 arrow

holes to log just after Shanghai – and it took several weeks. We

cross-checked our digitisation against the actual scores obtained

by the archers to make sure we hadn’t accidentally altered the

data while collating it.

The collection process was repeated again at the World Ar-

chery Championships in the south of Turkey. We focused mainly

on the recurve archers and compound women – but even so, it

came to a total of 10,000 arrow holes to process! It was, again,

a large task.

Target face example: recurve 30 metres Target face example: recurve 50 metres

Data of over 30,000 arrow

holes were collected, collated

and analysed during the study

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Dr James PARK and James LARVEN have published

the full results of their study in the Proceedings of the

Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: The Journal

of Sports Engineering and Technology.

The paper is called “Analysis of scores and arrow

grouping at major international archery competitions”,

and can be found at:

http://pip.sagepub.com/content/early/recent

Read report in full

Some of the digitisation was automated – but it’s almost impos-

sible to do so completely. Overlapping arrow holes and holes close

to the score lines couldn’t be properly assigned by the system, so

these had to be entered manually. After collecting practice arrows

for the compound archers – these had to be deleted from the sys-

tem, too, as we wanted to focus on competition scores.

Once the data was fully inputted, we could compare archers’

actual scores against the highest potential score had their sights

been centred on the target. It quickly became clear that there was

significant discrepancy between the two figures.

Certainly, in some cases athletes had set their sights very well –

and some had even achieved the maximum possible score. Most

of these archers were top compound men, as might be expected.

However, some athletes – including those with high scores in

the competition – did not set their sights very well at all. Many

archers could have gained an additional five to 10 points over

the 50-metre distance, simply by moving their group just a small

amount. In the most extreme case, an archer could have gained an

additional 23 points over 36 arrows!

On average, archers’ score loss due to lack of optimal sight setting

was three points per 36 arrows.

Interesting to note, though, is that each position in the rank-

ing round is work between one half and one whole point. So a

small gain through better sight settings could mean the difference

between making the cut to the head to heads or sitting out of the

elimination stages of a competition – or, more likely, the difference

between a top-eight bye or not. A big difference indeed!

Looking at a target face in retrospect, it is usually pretty easy to

tell if an archer has a well-set sight. Take a look at the examples on

the last pages. However, during an event – detecting such trends

as an athlete is not so easy. Archers need to take a careful look at

groupings and holes each end – before the arrows are removed

from the target – if they wish to keep their sights set optimally.

During competition, there are so many things to worry about

that most probably prefer to focus on other things.

There are certainly points to be gained, though – and that’s

something that archers, coaches and officials are always keen

to hear about!

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Outdoor World Ranking

Recurve MenRank Progress Athlete Continent Code Country Points

1 LEE Seungyun Asia KOR Korea 311.5

2 OH Jin Hyek Asia KOR Korea 295.5

3 DAI Xiaoxiang Asia CHN China 224

4 Takaharu FURUKAWA Asia JPN Japan 198.5

5 Rick VAN DER VEN Europe NED Netherlands 191

6 Crispin DUENAS Americas CAN Canada 178

7 Brady ELLISON Americas USA USA 176

8 Khairul Anuar MOHAMAD Asia MAS Malaysia 158.5

Recurve WomenRank Progress Athlete Continent Code Country Points

1 YUN Ok Hee Asia KOR Korea 243.25

2 KI Bo Bae Asia KOR Korea 238

3 XU Jing Asia CHN China 229.45

4 Aida ROMAN Americas MEX Mexico 203

5 CHANG Hye Jin Asia KOR Korea 198

6 JOO Hyun Jung Asia KOR Korea 193.5

7 Inna STEPANOVA Europe RUS Russia 191.5

8 JUNG Dasomi Asia KOR Korea 173.25

Compound MenRank Progress Athlete Continent Code Country Points

1 Pierre-Julien DELOCHE Europe FRA France 336.5

2 Reo WILDE Americas USA USA 282.7

3 Braden GELLENTHIEN Americas USA USA 204.35

4 +1 Sergio PAGNI Europe ITA Italy 200.5

5 +1 Mike SCHLOESSER Europe NED Netherlands 199

6 –2 Peter ELZINGA Europe NED Netherlands 197.6

7 Alexander DAMBAEV Europe RUS Russia 192.85

8 CHOI Yong Hee Asia KOR Korea 182.25

Compound WomenRank Progress Athlete Continent Code Country Points

1 Erika JONES Americas USA USA 318.7

2 Sara LOPEZ Americas COL Colombia 227.95

3 Alejandra USQUIANO Americas COL Colombia 226.175

4 Kristina HEIGENHAUSER Europe GER Germany 220.05

5 Albina LOGINOVA Europe RUS Russia 212.6

6 Ivana BUDEN Europe CRO Croatia 195.375

7 CHOI Bomin Asia KOR Korea 175.05

8 Camilla SOEMOD Europe DEN Denmark 171.075

as of 25 June 2014

YUN Ok Hee (KOR)

Pierre-Julien DELOCHE (FRA)

Jones ERIKA (USA)

OH Jin Hyek (KOR)

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Recurve Men Open

Rank Athlete Continent Code Country Points

1 TSENG Lung Hui Asia TPE Chinese Taipei 166.125

2 Paul BROWNE Europe GBR Great Britain 139

3 Hasihin SANAWI Asia MAS Malaysia 135.4

4 Hanreuchai NETSIRI Asia THA Thailand 131.3

5 Vaclav KOSTAL Europe CZE Czech Republic 112

6 Maik SZARSZEWSKI Europe GER Germany 101.475

7 Zafer KORKMAZ Europe TUR Turkey 98.75

8 Oguzhan POLAT Europe TUR Turkey 91.75

Compound Men Open

Rank Athlete Continent Code Country Points

1 Jere FORSBERG Europe FIN Finland 200

2 Matt STUTZMAN Americas USA USA 166

3 John STUBBS Europe GBR Great Britain 149

4 Dogan HANCI Europe TUR Turkey 114

5 Kevin EVANS Americas CAN Canada 102.5

6= Peter KASKAK Europe SVK Slovakia 98

6= Giampaolo CANCELLI Europe ITA Italy 98

8 Martin IMBODEN Europe SUI Switzerland 92.25

Recurve/Compound Men W1

Rank Athlete Continent Code Country Points

1 Jean Pierre ANTONIOS Europe FIN Finland 187

2 Jeff FABRY Americas USA USA 185

3 David DRAHONINSKY Europe CZE Czech Republic 179

4 Norbert MURPHY Americas CAN Canada 173

5 Peter KINIK Europe SVK Slovakia 111.5

6 John CAVANAGH Europe GBR Great Britain 111

7 Jerry SHIELDS Americas USA USA 86.75

8 Fabio AZZOLINI Europe ITA Italy 85

Jean Pierre ANTONIOS (FIN)

Jere FORSBERG (FIN)

TSENG Lung Hui (TPE)

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This world ranking list includes archers classified to compete in para archery events from this date.

Para Archery World Rankingas of 15 June 2014

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Recurve Women Open

Rank Athlete Continent Code Country Points

1 Zahra NEMATI Asia IRI Iran 207

2 Milena OLSEWSKA Europe POL Poland 181.25

2 Brigitte DUBOC Europe FRA France 155.75

4 Irina BATOROVA Europe RUS Russia 123

5 Iryna VOLYNETS Europe UKR Ukraine 120.7

6 Wasana KHUTHAWISAP Asia THA Thailand 113.9

7 Javsmaa BYAMBASUREN Asia MGL Mongolia 113

7 XIAO Yanhong Asia CHN China 113

7 Elisabetta MIJNO Europe ITA Italy 113

Compound Women Open

Rank Athlete Continent Code Country Points

1 Stepanida ARTAKHINOVA Europe RUS Russia 152

2 Mel CLARKE Europe GBR Great Britain 138

3 Marina LYZHNIKOVA Europe RUS Russia 111

4 Karen VAN NEST Americas CAN Canada 107.5

5 Burcu DAG Europe TUR Turkey 100

6 Zandra REPPE Europe SWE Sweden 99.75

7 Olga POLEGAEVA Europe RUS Russia 88

8 Carmen RUBIO Europe ESP Spain 85.5

Recurve/Compound Women W1

Rank Athlete Continent Code Country Points

– no athletes yet ranked in division –

Stepanida ARTAKHINOVA (RUS)

Zahra NEMATI (IRI)

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8-14 June World Archery Youth Championships Yankton (USA)

12-28 June European Games (Archery: 16-22 June) Baku (AZE)

3-14 July 28th Summer Universiade Gwangju (KOR)

10-26 July Pan American Games (Archery: 13-18 July) Toronto (CAN)

24-25 July World Archery Congress Copenhagen (DEN)

26 July-2 August World Archery Championships Copenhagen (DEN)

11-16 August Archery World Cup stage 3 Wroclaw (POL) 

8-13 September Archery World Cup stage 4 Medellin (COL)

15-22 September Rio 2016 Olympic Games Test Event Rio de Janeiro (BRA)

24-25 October Archery World Cup Final Mexico City (MEX)

Red To be confirmed

Bold Archery World Cup/Indoor Archery World Cup Events

Italics World Championships

Blue World multisport events (Olympic/Paralympic, World Games and others)

Calendar

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ALG Algeria

ARG Argentina

ARM Armenia

AUS Australia

AUT Austria

AZE Azerbaijan

BAH Bahamas

BAN Bangladesh

BAR Barbados

BEL Belgium

BEN Benin

BER Bermuda

BHU Bhutan

BIH Bosnia and Herzegovina

BLR Belarus

BRA Brazil

BUL Bulgaria

CAF Central African Republic

CAM Cambodia

CAN Canada

CHA Chad

CHI Chile

CHN People’s Republic of China

CIV Ivory Coast

CMR Cameroon

COD Democratic Republic of the Congo

COL Colombia

COM Comoros

CRC Costa Rica

CRO Croatia

CUB Cuba

CYP Cyprus

CZE Czech Republic

DEN Denmark

DOM Dominican Republic

ECU Ecuador

EGY Egypt

ESA El Salvador

ESP Spain

EST Estonia

FIJ Fiji

FIN Finland

FLK Falkland Islands

FPO Tahiti

FRA France

FRO Faroe Islands

GAB Gabon

GBR Great Britain

GEO Georgia

GER Germany

GHA Ghana

GRE Greece

GUA Guatemala

GUI Guinea

HAI Haiti

HKG Hong Kong, China

HON Honduras

HUN Hungary

INA Indonesia

IND India

IRI Islamic Republic of Iran

IRL Ireland

IRQ Iraq

ISL Iceland

ISR Israel

ISV Virgin Islands

ITA Italy

JPN Japan

KAZ Kazakhstan

KEN Kenya

KGZ Kyrgyzstan

KIR Kiribati

KOR Korea

KOS Kosovo

KSA Saudi Arabia

KUW Kuwait

LAO Lao People’s Democratic Republic

LAT Latvia

LBA Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

LBR Liberia

LIB Lebanon

LIE Liechtenstein

LTU Lithuania

LUX Luxembourg

MAC Macau

MAR Morocco

MAS Malaysia

MAW Malawi

MDA Republic of Moldova

MEX Mexico

MGL Mongolia

MKD F.Y.R.O. Macedonia

MLT Malta

MNE Republic of Montenegro

MON Monaco

MRI Mauritius

MYA Myanmar

NAM Namibia

NCA Nicaragua

NED Netherlands

NEP Nepal

NFI Norfolk Islands

NGR Nigeria

NIG Niger

NOR Norway

NZL New Zealand

PAK Pakistan

PAN Panama

PAR Paraguay

PER Peru

PHI Philippines

PLW Palau

PNG Papua New Guinea

POL Poland

POR Portugal

PRK Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

PUR Puerto Rico

QAT Qatar

ROU Romania

RSA South Africa

RUS Russian Federation

RWA Rwanda

SAM Samoa

SEN Senegal

SIN Singapore

SLE Sierra Leone

SLO Slovenia

SMR San Marino

SOM Somalia

SRB Serbia

SRI Sri Lanka

SUD Sudan

SUI Switzerland

SUR Suriname

SVK Slovakia

SWE Sweden

TGA Tonga

THA Thailand

TJK Tajikistan

TOG Togo

TPE Chinese Taipei

TRI Trinidad and Tobago

TUN Tunisia

TUR Turkey

UGA Uganda

UKR Ukraine

URU Uruguay

USA United States of America

UZB Uzbekistan

VAN Vanuatu

VEN Venezuela

VIE Vietnam

ZIM Zimbabwe

153 Member Associations

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Official Sponsors

Official Car Sponsor of World Archery

KIA Motors

SporToto

FILA

Official Airline of World Archery

Turkish Airlines

Longines

Official Partners

Official Bow Partners

Hoyt

Official Arrow Partners

Easton Technical Products Inc.

DHL Global Forwarding

Official Presenter of the Archery Fan Reporter

Win & Win Archery

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Development Fund Partners

Danage of Scandinavia

Denmark

HIGH FIVE VICTORY

FIVICS Archery*

(formerly “Soma Archery”)

Korea

Rosa Inc.

Japan

Easton Technical Products Inc.

USA

Hoyt

USA

Samick Sports Co. Ltd

Korea

Win & Win Archery Co.

Korea

®

™

Lancaster Archery Supply

USA

Shibuya Archery

(a division of Yasui & Co.)

Japan

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Associate Members

Archery Life Co.

Korea

Arrowhead*

(also sells under “Temple Faces”)

Great Britain

Asahi Archery Inc.

Japan

Bagar & Pilar

Sweden

Bjorn Bengtson Sweden AB*

Sweden

Danage of Scandinavia

Denmark

Decut

China

Easton Technical Products Inc.

USA

HIGH FIVE VICTORY

FIVICS Archery*

(formerly “Soma Archery”)

Korea

Geologic*

France

Hoyt

USA

Ishii Archery Co. Ltd.

Japan

Arrow Wraps

Socx Arrow Wraps

Netherlands

*Licensed Manufacturers of World Archery target faces. Only target faces produced by licensed manufacturers may be used at World

Archery events.

JP Archery Co.

Japan

J.V.D. Distribution*

Netherlands

Krueger Targets*

Germany

®

™

Lancaster Archery Supply

USA

LAS Distribution

France

Mathews Inc.

USA

Maple Leaf Press Inc.*

USA

M.K Korea

Korea

Petron

United Kingdom

Samick Sports Co. Ltd

Korea

Shibuya Archery

(a division of Yasui & Co.)

Japan

Win & Win Archery Co.

Korea

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World Archery wishes to thank its Sponsors, Partners, Suppliers

and Associate Members for their support and contribution to

the development of archery.

Special thanks to the World Archery President, Robert C.W. SMITH,

Uğur KORKMAZ, Hakan BALCI, Dean ALBERGA, Vanahé ANTILLE,

Teresa JOHNSON, Dr James PARK, James LARVEN, the World

Archery Staff and Officers, as well as any other involved person in

this issue for their valuable contributions.

Next issue of The Target magazine: Winter 2014

www.worldarchery.org

Published by World Archery in Ankara, Turkey

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