24 April 2007 - New Field Archery World Ranking Season

New Field Archery World Ranking Season Lausanne – 24 April 2007  The new Field Archery World Ranking (FAWR) season started on 17 March in Ireland and will finish in November in Australia. The FAWR 2007 will be shot over 48 tournaments in 20 countries. New this year: Denmark is joining the FAWR for the first time. This new season starts with small differences between archers to compete for the FAWR awards.   This season promises to be an exciting one! The difference between the archers is often just a few points. In some cases it is even less than a point. All in all it looks like we will have a very exciting Field Archery year ahead and we are in for a big fight for the FAWR awards.   Some of the exciting categories are:   Men Cadet Compound with a difference between no. 1 and 3 of only 0.25 point: Simon Rousseau CAN 333.79 Jason Howe AUS 333.70 Alex Zarebski AUS 333.54   Men Junior Barebow with less than a point difference for first place: Urban Jelenc (2) SLO 273.06 Tapani Kalmaru (1) GBR 272.28   Men Junior Recurve, also less than a point difference: Jacopo Bennati ITA 309.50 Victor Bresson FRA 308.98   Men Senior Compound with 16 archers within three points and no. 1 to 4 with a difference of one point: Axel Langweige (1) GER 357.86 Morgan Lundin SWE 357.59 Fredrik Lindblad (2) SWE 357.17 Jean-Paul Laury FRA 356.98 Niels Baldur DEN 356.59 Florian Faucheur FRA 356.51 Stéphane Dardenne FRA 356.50 Christopher White GBR 356.50 Gilles Seywert LUX 356.19 Dave Cousins (3) USA 356.15 Dietmar Trillus CAN 356.14 Andre Grawinkel GER 356.08 Tom Henriksen DEN 356.00 Roland Pepperl (4) GER 355.50 Rolf Hack GER 355.37 Hervé Dardant (5) FRA 355.02   Women Senior Compound with only 0.02 points difference between no 1 and 2 and seven archers within 2 points: Heike Ehrlich (1) GER 349.80 Silke Höttecke (2) GER 349.78 Françoise Volle (3) FRA 349.22 Jahna Davis USA 349.17 Jamie Van Natta (4) USA 348.85 Ulrika Sjöwall (5) SWE 348.52 Martina Schacht (6) GER 348.27

For more information on the FAWR, please visit www.archeryranking.org.

René Koot Field Archery World Ranking (Edited FITA Communication)