22 June 2006 - Two World Records, four times 1400 pts

2 World Records, 4 times 1400 pt

San Salvador - 22 June 2006

The Americans broke for the first time in the history the 4200 pts barrier for a team in a FITA Round. Dave Cousins achieved 1407 pts, Reo Wilde 1402 pts and brother Logan Wilde had 1393 pts for a marvelous 4202 pts World Record. In compound women, Goncharova (RUS) carried on a great first day of qualifications and completed her FITA round with a World Record performance. With 1401 points, she tied the American Mary Hamm’s score in 2003.

One minute of silence was observed at the beginning of the day in the honour of the judge Luis Breton (MEX) who passed away yesterday.

Photo: Sofia Goncharova (RUS)

The country of El Salvador is welcoming the top archers in the world for the 3rd stage of the Meteksan Archery World Cup 2006. In the Americas, the archers shoot a whole FITA round during the qualifications. It means the men release 36 arrows respectively at 90, 70, 60 and 30 meters while the women go for 70, 60 50 and 30 meters. It also implies that the local Organizing Committee is offering medals to the top three archers at each distance.  The archers took care of the long distances on Wednesday and the shorter ones on Thursday.

The number 1 ranked in qualifications will shoot against the number 64 in elimination matches as of Friday.

Recurve Women

In the afternoon session, Chinese delegation showed once more their strengthness in archery by ranking in the 4th first positions in the overall FITA Round, scoring 1334 for Guo Dan, 1332 for Yu Hui, 1324 for Zhang Juan Juan and 1323 for Qian Jialing. At the 50m distance, Chinese archers showed once again they were leading the competition taking the first 3 places. However, at 30m distance, Jennifer Nichols from USA could beat the Chinese shoots with 352 pts, ranking 1st. Charlotte Burgess from Great Britain also preceded Chinese Guo Dan with 351 pts, while Guo Dan shot 349 pts ranking 3rd of the 30m Recurve Women.

In teams, China keeps the first place followed by Great Britain and Italy.

Photo : Martin Damsbo (DEN) 

Compound Men

US Cousins was 1st at 50m with 354 pts, followed by Italian Pagni who shot 353 pts with 31 tens, while Danish Damsbo ranked 3rd with 353 pts and 29 tens.

On the 30m distance, Reo Wilde proved he could do better and ranked 1st with a perfect score of 360 pts and 30X, while his teammate Dave Cousins ranked 2nd with also a prefect score of 360 having shot 22X. Swiss Patrizio Hofer makes the 3rd place in the distance by shooting an almost perfect score of 359 with incredible 31 X, just missing one to tie the World Record.

On the overall FITA Round side, we can remark 3 wonderful first places achieving each 1400 points and more. 1st place was given to Cousins with 1407 pts, his teammate Reo Wilde reached 1402 pts, while Damsbo shot 1400 pts.

In teams, USA team keeps the first place beating the actual World Record by far with 4202 pts ! Netherlands team ranked 2nd with 4166 pts, beat the actual European Record and Great Britain gets the 3rd place with 4122 pts.

Photo: Eduardo Magana (MEX)

Recurve Men

In the morning session, Di Buo (ITA) preserved his 1st place thanks to a strong result at 30 m with 355 pts. He stays ahead of teammate Frangilli who ranked 2nd at 50 m. Van Alten (NED) was the best at 50m (338 pts), which put him at 3rd place overall at the end of the qualifications.

Other performances to mention are the 355 pts of Custers (NED) at 30m (2nd) and the 334 pts / 354 pts of Magana (MEX) respectively at 50m and 30m, which allowed him to reach the podium on these distances.

In teams, China came back to 3rd place behind Italy and Mexico.

Compound Women

Goncharova (RUS) was 1st at 50m with 349 pts and 2nd at 30m with 357 pts. With her 345 pts at 70m and 350 pts at 60m yesterday, it puts her total at 1401 pts over the two days. It will be considered as a new European Record. In fact, she ties the world’s best performance and is only the 3rd women in the world (recurve and compound together) to break the 1400 pts barrier.

In San Salvador, Van Natta (USA) will still prove to be a strong opponent during elimination matches. She completed the FITA round with 1388 pts, scoring 347 at 50m and 356 at 30m today. Her teammate Colin had a nice come back in the ranking, taking 3rd place at 50m and 1st place at 30 m.

In teams, USA prevailed in front of Mexico and Venezuela.

Luzmary Guedes (VEN)
All Photos (c) Dean Alberga & FITA

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