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After picking up gold medals in Singapore and Telford, JONES had a commanding lead in the series rankings heading into the weekend. She was strong, not dominant, during the two-day World Cup stage at The Vegas Shoot, but improved with each match of the Final.
Eventually facing Crystal GAUVIN – another United States archer and winner at Marrakesh – for compound women’s gold, world number one Erika JONES was clinical. She shot nine straight 10s in front of the burgeoning Vegas crowd, and reclaimed the Indoor Archery World Cup title she last held in 2011 with a 6-nil set point victory.
“Happy with how I came back from my struggle yesterday,” said JONES on her Facebook page before taking to the Finals field. After the win, she added: “I shot good! Shooting in front of a huge home crowd is awesome.”
Jean-Charles VALLADONT, the other top seed riding a two-stage winning streak, couldn’t convert his ranking position into silverware. He lost for the second time this indoor archery season, and for the second time to Italian Matteo FISSORE – who knocked the Frenchman out in the Marrakesh semis.
This FISSORE win was in the quarterfinals, but after he beat the USA’s Brett LAZAROFF in the next round he found Rick VAN DER VEN (NED) waiting in the final. It was another Marrakesh match replay that went exactly the same way: VAN DER VEN taking the top spot, 6-2.
Korean archery team LH made a clean sweep of the recurve women’s podium, and produced their third different winner in three stages. Last year’s Indoor Archery World Cup Champion JEON Sungeun won Singapore, KIM Yu Mi took gold at Telford – and this time it was PARK Se Hui’s turn.
The compound men’s ranking was murky before Vegas – and that opened the door for Sebastien PEINEAU’s hot day. He beat Dutch archers Mike SCHLOESSER then Ruben BLEYENDAAL with 10s in one-arrow shoot-offs, took out Levi MORGAN in the semis (USA) and was better than defending Indoor World Cup Champion Braden GELLENTHIEN for gold.
Watch the Indoor Archery World Cup Finals in full using the video below or by heading over to World Archery TV. Catch up on the full results, and check the photos from day two of The Vegas Shoot and Indoor World Cup Finals.
There’s still one day of The Vegas Shoot left! Follow live scores from tomorrow’s competition and join in the conversation on Facebook and Twitter using the hashtags #IWCFinal and #VegasShoot.
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