World Archery releases shortlists for 2023 Athlete of the Year Awards
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The nominees for the 2023 World Archery Awards have been announced.
There are shortlists for nine of the prizes including the six category trophies – for recurve men, recurve women, compound men, compound women, para men and para women – that will be open for public vote from 10 November to 10 December 2023.
The overall Athlete of the Year trophy, which was awarded for the first time in a decade last year, is decided by a panel of journalists.
Great Britain’s Ella Gibson received the principal honour in 2022 with Italian barebow archer Cinzia Noziglia the surprise runner-up. Olympic Champion An San and world para champion Matt Stutzman were among the other athletes to receive honours.
Included on the shortlists for 2023 are all four world champions – Mete Gazoz, Marie Horackova, Pravin Deotale and Aditi Swami – as well as India’s record-setting armless archer Sheetal Devi and first-year compound coach Sergio Pagni.
The winners will receive physical awards and be announced in early 2024.
Nominees: 2023 World Archery Awards
The overall trophy is awarded by open vote and there is no shortlist.
Breakthrough
- Liko Arreola, USA
- Lim Sihyeon, Korea
- Aditi Swami, India
Coach
- Marc Dellenbach (formerly Germany)
- Sergio Pagni, India
- Chris Webster, USA
Judge
- Andrea Aguilar, Guatemala
- Hossein Nasirinejad, Iran
- Kristina Reitmeier, Czech Republic
Recurve men*
- Marcus D’Almeida, Brazil
- Mete Gazoz, Türkiye
- Woo Seok Lee, Korea
- Mauro Nespoli, Italy
- Eric Peters, Canada
Recurve women*
- Penny Healey, Great Britain
- Marie Horackova, Czech Republic
- Casey Kaufhold, USA
- Lim Sihyeon, Korea
- Alejandra Valencia, Mexico
Compound men*
- Jozef Bosansky, Slovakia
- Pravin Deotale, India
- Mathias Fullerton, Denmark
- Prathamesh Jawkar, India
- Mike Schloesser, Netherlands
Compound women*
- Liko Arreola, USA
- Aditi Gopichand Swami, India
- Sara Lopez, Colombia
- Elisa Roner, Italy
- Jyothi Surekha Vennam, India
Para men*
- Bahattin Hekimoğlu (W1), Türkiye
- Nathan MacQueen (compound), Great Britain
- Kevin Mather (recurve), USA
- Daniele Piran (visually impaired), Italy
- Guillaume Toucoullet (recurve), France
Para women*
- Chen Minyi (W1), China
- Öznur Cüre (compound), Türkiye
- Sheetal Devi (compound), India
- Asia Pellizzari (W1), Italy
- Wu Chunyan (recurve), China
*Open for public vote at www.worldarcheryawards.com on 10 November 2023.
World Archery Award winners in 2022
- Overall: Ella Gibson, Great Britain
- Breakthrough: Katharina Bauer, Germany
- Coach: Sebastien Brasseur, France
- Judge: Katy Lipscomb, Great Britain
- Recurve men: Kim Woojin, Korea
- Recurve women: An San, Korea
- Compound men: Mike Schloesser, Netherlands
- Compound women: Ella Gibson, Great Britain
- Para men: Matt Stutzman, USA
- Para women: Phoebe Paterson Pine, Great Britain