Defending champion Cinzia Noziglia leads as qualifying completes at Yankton World 3D
The defending champion, Italy’s Cinzia Noziglia, is leading the barebow women’s field after qualification at the Yankton 2026 World Archery 3D Championships.
Noziglia scored 468 and 453 across the two days for a total of 921 to lead by 20 points from the USA’s Ava Jones, her nearest rival. Jones, the 18-year-old who won the Tlaxcala 2026 Pan American Championships earlier in the year, briefly took the qualifying lead on the second day.
The Italian has had an extraordinary career, with a world field title in 2022, three world 3D titles in 2015, 2022 and 2024, and two World Games titles in 2017 and 2022, along with multiple team medals as well as European and indoor target titles.
In recent years, however, she has collected a string of silver medals at major championships. She crashed out of the individual competition at the Yankton 2026 World Archery Field Championships in the last 16, but recovered to take mixed team barebow gold on the final day of competition with Matteo Uggeri.
France’s David Jackson, twice a champion in this discipline, dominated the barebow men’s field on the second day to finish on 948, 22 points ahead of second-placed Cesar Vera Bringas of Spain.
Austria’s Nico Wiener, reigning Hyundai Archery World Cup Final Champion and a multiple world champion in field and 3D competition, led the compound men’s field with a huge 1007 out of a maximum 1056 points. Wiener was the second seed at last week’s World Field Championships, although he went out in the last 16 of the individual competition.
The compound women’s list was headed by Ingrid Ronacher, also of Austria, with 968. Ronacher won this event in 2019 and medalled in 2022 and 2024.
Klaes Andersen of Denmark, the silver medallist at last year’s European 3D Championships, was the best longbow men’s archer with 838, while Cecile Lafaurie of France was the top longbow woman archer on 730. Lafaurie is a former barebow winner of the Nimes tournament.
Zibrandt Christensen, also of Denmark and the 2017 champion, led the traditional bow men’s list with 913, while Claudia Weinberger of Austria, the 2022 champion, led the women’s list with 804.
The competition continues with individual eliminations to take the field to the last 16 on Wednesday evening, followed by knockout eliminations in both individual and team competition on Thursday.
Top seeds: 2026 World 3D
After both unmarked rounds. Full results available on the event page.
- Compound men: Nico Wiener, Austria – 1007
- Compound women: Ingrid Ronacher, Austria – 968
- Barebow men: David Jackson, France – 948
- Barebow women: Cinzia Noziglia, Italy – 921
- Longbow men: Klaes Andersen, Denmark – 838
- Longbow women: Cecile Lafaurie, France – 730
- Traditional bow men: Zibrandt Christensen, Denmark – 913
- Traditional bow women: Claudia Weinberger, Austria – 804
