The 2nd edition of the Meteksan Archery World Cup starts in Ulsan (KOR). More than 250 archers from 34 countries have registered to the event and they have one goal in common: earn points and qualify to the World Cup Final at the end of the season!

From April 1-6, the competition in Ulsan (KOR) promises to be interesting. The participation in Recurve Men and Women is truly impressive as some archers kick on their preparation for the next Olympic Games. The best Compound archers also made the trip and there will be two categories: the ones looking to confirm an excellent 2006 season and the ones definitely looking for revenge.

Recurve Men
The host Koreans are of course among the favourites, lead by 2006 World Cup winner Park Kyung Mo as well as recent Asian Champion Im Dong Hyun. Their main contenders are the Italian golden trio: Di Buo, Frangilli and Olympic Champion Galiazzo. The experienced Petersson (SWE) made the trip as well as three good performers from last year: Yong Fujun, Xue Hai Feng (CHN) and Eduardo Magana (MEX).

The archers that want to improve on last year are: Van Alten and Pieter Custers (NED), Cuddihy (AUS), Rai Tarundeep (IND) or Laurence Godfrey (GBR). We’ll keep an eye on the recent Junior World Champion Girouille (FRA).

Recurve Women
World Cup winner Zhang Juan Juan (CHN) starts to defend her title and one her tougher opponent is her young team-mate and rising star Qian Jialing. They take on a truly Korean dream team: Olympic and Asian Champion Park Sung Hyun, Yun Mi Jin, Yun Ok Hee and Lee Tuk Young. The experienced Williamson will try to lead a strong British team with Folkard and Burgess. The Italians count on Tonetta and a come-back from Valeeva.

Some archers have shown a strong potential last year and will try to fulfil their expectations: European Champion Gallardo (ESP), Wu Hui Ju (TPE), Banerjee (IND), Satir and Nasaridze (TUR), Mospinek and Marcinkiewicz (POL).

Compound Men
The 2006 World Cup Winner Reo Wilde (USA) is still accompanied by his brother Logan. However, their famous father Dee seems to be heading to a well-deserved retirement of high level competition. The strongest contenders to the USA are a talented French team: European Champion Brasseur, Genet and Dardenne. We can count on the experimented Jimenez (ESA), Elzinga and Emiel Custers (NED). Hofer (SUI) will play once again the role of the dark horse.

The ones looking for revenge on a poor 2006 season are: 2005 World Champion Lundin (SWE), 2003 World Champion Freeman (AUS), Sitar (SLO) and White (GBR). We’ll watch the development of Pagni (ITA) and the young Damsbo (DEN).

Compound Women
The fabulous four will keep fighting: World Champion and World Cup Winner Goncharova (RUS), her team-mate Kazantzeva, as well as the Americans Van Natta and Davis.

However, many archers want to take them out of the podium: European Champion Soemod (DEN), recent Indoor World Champion Salvi (ITA), Simpson (GBR), Hansdah (IND) and Paz (PHI).

This year the Meteksan Archery World Cup features a complete FITA round during the qualifications (4x 36 arrows at four distances), and then the archers go into the exciting single elimination match play (12 arrows only).

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DOVER

The 4th Stage of the Meteksan Archery World Cup will be held in Dover (GBR) from 31 July to 5 August 2007.

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NEWS about 4th stage and the GB team

DATE: 09/04/2007

Location: Bangor & District archery club, Bloomfields playing fields

Sighters: 10:30am

ROUND: FITA

On Easter Monday Bangor & District archery club held it’s 2007 FITA Easter shoot at Bloomfield’s playing fields. There was an impressive turn out for the shoot from all over Northern Ireland and Ireland. The main event of the day was the FITA round, also held was a Metric 1, Metric 2 for the Juniors and a York for the Longbows.

Within the FITA round 8 targets of two details shooting for the Gents and 4 Ladies targets shooting.
With an almost even turn out of Compound and Recurve archers. Which proved a good sight to see so many different styles shooting side by side.

The Day started off with the Safety and Judges Rules and Regs chat, followed by the sighters just after 10:30am. The weather was excellent for the Easter Shoot as many of the B&D archers could not remember the last shoot which it did not rain on. There was a mild to moderate rear wind which did not make shooting that difficult as it was there for most of the day.

Then after a long day of shooting about 7:00ish the ballet and awards where present to many archer, in round and classes.

A list of the results and awards will be posted here in due course.

We would like to thank the two judges Sam and Kevin for there help throughout the day, and a big thanks to all the archers which attended our shoot, we hope you enjoyed the day and we will see you next year, or sooner.

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