Jimmy Lutz breaks 10-year-old compound world record with 719

The American compound archer James ‘Jimmy’ Lutz has broken the compound men’s 72-arrow 50m qualification round world record, scoring 719 out of 720 at the 2026 Easton Foundations Gator Cup competition in Newberry, Florida, USA on 18 April 2026.

The world record is still subject to ratification. 

The score beats the longstanding previous mark of 718 set by Braden Gellenthien at the National Target Championships in Decatur, Alabama in July 2016.

His score in Florida was three points higher than the second placed archer, the Netherlands' Mike Schloesser, one of a handful of elite internationals also competing on the US circuit. 

Lutz, the 2019 World Champion, was the winner of the 2024 World Cup Final in Tlaxcala, Mexico, and was profiled by World Archery in 2021. He competed in the recent Puebla 2026 Hyundai Archery World Cup stage 1.

This year's Gator Cup, a regular fixture on the USAT circuit, features over 800 archers, the largest such event in its history.

Last year the outdoor men’s recurve world record was also broken, after Olympic Champion Kim Woojin set a new world record of 709 points out of a maximum of 720 in the 70 metre 72-arrow round at a Korean national championship on 15 September 2025, breaking a six-year-old record. 

Pic courtesy USA Archery.