29 August 2006 - Perfect score with a borrowed bow at Göteborg's Field World Championships!

Perfect score with a borrowed bow!

Göteborg – 29 August 2006 

The 20th Field World Championships have started this morning for the 230 archers from 27 countries at “Gunnebo House”, a beautiful park not far from the city of Göteborg. Today was the first qualification day for the competitors in the 12 competed divisions. While the barebow archers were shooting on known distances, all other categories had to face unknown targets.

Compound Men

The most incredible performance was achieved today by the American Compound star Dave Cousins. Just imagine: the multiple World Champion has shot a perfect score of 360 points on targets at unknown distances with a borrowed bow after his own was lost during his flight to Sweden! The only other archer to shoot the perfect score today was the Swedish champion Morgan Lundin.

 Photos © Dean Alberga

Compound Women

Françoise Volle (FRA), defending World Champion, shows she is in form leading the Compound Women category two points ahead (355/353) of the new World Record holder in Target Archery, Jamie Van Natta (USA). Third is currently Anna Laurila of Finland, 4th at 2005 World Games.

Recurve Men

The 2002 World Champion and 2005 World Games Winner Michele Frangilli from Italy shot the best score (350 points) in the Recurve Men category and is leading on the defending World Champion Sebastian Rohrberg of Germany (339). Third today is the French archer Nicolas Gaudron with 334 points, closely followed by Belgian Jean Michel Piquet (333).

Recurve Women

In this category two French ladies, Sophie Dodemont and Laure Barczynski, are leading after the first qualification day. Barczynski, 2002 World Champion, is one of the potential winners together with Jessica Tomasi (ITA), the defending World Champion, who is currently third.

Barebow Men

Local Mathias Larsson, bronze medalist at last year’s World Games, is leading his teammate Erik Jonsson, World Games gold medalist and defending World Champion. They both shot very good scores in the Barebow division, with 328 and 324 respectively on the marked round.

Barebow Women

Reingild Linhart from Austria, the 2002 World Champion, has achieved the best score in Barebow Women with 296 points and is leading the local favorite Annika Ahlund (293). Third is the bronze medalist of the World Games, Luciana Pennacchi of Italy.

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