World Cup Finals
San Salvador - 25 June 2006

Qian and Goncharova Win Again !

San Salvador - 25 June 2006

After their win in Antalya, Qian (CHN) and Goncharova (RUS) trust the women’s gold medals. Di Buo (ITA) wins the men’s recurve and takes the World Cup ranking lead. Logan Wilde (USA) beat his brother Reo in the compound men final. The team gold matches also took place.

The finals of the San Salvador World Cup took place in the Magico Gonzalez Stadium in front a 2000 spectators and a great ambiance. Here is a recap of all matches :

Recurve Men Team Gold : Italy The Italian Team leaded the last match of the day against the Mexican Team to win the Gold Medal 225-209. Mexico goes away with Silver.

Recurve Women Team Gold : Turkey It was a very interesting and difficult match shot between Italy and Turkey, where Italy was leading in the firsts ends, but suddenly Turkey took over the Italians and finally won the match by 2 pts 208-206.

Compound Men Team Gold : Netherlands This was a very tied match in every single end, leaded by 1 point by the Team of Netherlands, who beat the 24 Arr. Match World Record yesterday, and finally won over the Team of Brazil after the shoot-off, where they shot 9-9-9 against 7-9-10 for Brazil who could not do it at the end.

Compound Women Team Gold : Mexico progressively pulled a large victory agains Great Britain. The scores were tied a 110 after 1 end. The Mexicans align the 10 and 9 until the end of the game. Final score : 224 -214 pts. 

Recurve Men Gold : Di Buo (ITA) Wietse Van Alten was leading the first 3 ends 81-79, but in the last end Di Buo shot 8-10-10, while Van Alten only shot 10-7-8 and made him loose the match by one point 107-106. Gold goes to Di Buo !

Recurve Men Bronze : Custers (NED) Pieter Custers took the advantage as of the 1st end and continued in the same vein to beat Mexican Magaña, who shot extremely well in the Polideportivo Field, 111-101.

Recurve Women Gold : Qian (CHN) The match was pretty tied in the 1st three ends, but Williamson (GBR) shot a 5 as final arrow and made her loose the match 106-101. Qian gets the Gold !

Recurve Women Bronze : Zhang (CHN) The Bronze final was led by Chinese Juan Juan Zhang till the last end, where she scored 107 pts, while Satir Keskin (TUR) only shot 104 pts.

Compound Men Gold : Logan  Wilde (USA) The brothers Wilde met in the Gold Final in a very tied match where Logan took the advantage by shooting 2 perfects ends, his total score is 116, while Reo shot 115 with one perfect end.

Compound Men Bronze : Jimenez (ESA) Jimenez cheered by his crowed found the strength to beat his opponent Ochoa (MEX) 117-112. Ochoa (MEX) could not follow his opponent's shoots.

Compound Women Gold : Goncharova (RUS)  After a weak start Goncharova comes up strong to clinch the victory 114-109. Opponent Van Natta (USA) could not find her rithm.

Compound Women Bronze : Ochoa (MEX) Two perfect ends with 30 pts, and two ends with 29 pts gives the Bronze Medal to Mexican Almendra Ochoa, with a total score of 118 pts. US Jahna Davis did not shoot as well as in the Polideportivo Field, shooting 2 8s in the last two ends, with a total score of 110 pts. 

See you in Shanghai !

Chantal Steiner
FITA Communication