Venezuela latest nation to benefit from youth development programme

Coach Ivan YOTOV’s latest visit to Venezuela focused on the implementation of a development plan put in place to raise Venezuela’s competitive archery level. In February and March this year, he checked up on the nation’s progress and made sure staff, archers and officials were fulfilling their tasks.

The archers in Venezuela have progressed extremely quickly, thanks to the expertise of national coach Oscar OSARIO and support of Venezuela Archery President Gerardo NOGUERA.

Two-a-day training sessions during Coach YOTOV’s visit, designed to give an accurate status of the athletes in the nation’s performance programme, yielded encouraging results. Not just in competition performance but in the physical condition – and improvement – of the archers, too.

Venezuela is an archery nation to watch out for in the next years. Some of the nation’s archers latest results include compound women's team gold and men's silver at the Central American and Caribbean Sports Games in November.

In Rosario a month earlier, recurve man Elias MALAVE took first place at Pan American Games Qualifier, while Leandro ROJAS and Eduardo GONZALEZ won Pan American Championships silver and bronze in compound.

The youth development programme in the Americas, delivered in association with Global Sports Development, began in September 2011. Coach Ivan YOTOV has been working with Venezuela for over a year, as part of a rotation of visits to promising archery countries in the continent.

Coach YOTOV’s planned visits:

March-April: Argentina April-May: Ecuador May-June: Cuba June-July: Paraguay

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