Three for USA, two for Italy and one for Germany!

The final matches of the Field Archery World Championships took place in the beautiful St Fagans National History Museum of Wales. The athletes shot semi-finals on four targets (total 12 arrows at maximum 6 points) and then matches for bronze and gold on four other targets.   Recurve Men Sebastian Rohberg (photo) of Germany is the new men's world field archery men's recurve champion. Italy's Jessica Tomasi has taken the women's gold. Rohberg, who was also silver medalist in Gothenburg two years ago, took gold this year, as he defeated fellow German Andreas Heuwing by 58 points to 53 in Saturday's final at St Fagans, in Cardiff.   Japan's Yuki Sakaeyama took the bronze medal. Sakaeyama, who lost to Heuwing in the semis, defeated Vic Wunderle of the United States in the third place play-off.   Recurve Women In the women's recurve final, Tomasi maintained the good form she has shown throughout the week in South Wales. After topping the standings in both qualification days, she top scored again in the eliminations on Friday, and duly took the gold medal. She beat Belgium's Marina Prelipcean in the semi-finals, and then saw off Sweden's Elin Kattstrom in the final, by 51 points to 49.   Germany's Lisa Unruh, who lost out to Kattstrom in the semis, took the bronze medal with a 53-48 victory over Prelipcean.   Compound Men In the men's compound championship, Rod Menzer (left on photo) defeated Stephane Dardenne (right on photo) of France by 67 points to 63 in the final, having beaten Denmark's Niels Baldur in the semis.   Dardenne prevented an all-American final when he defeated Dave Cousins in his semi-final. Cousins then bounced back to take the bronze medal, with a 65-63 victory over Baldur.   Compound Women Jamie Van Natta of the United States gave herself a timely boost ahead of this month's World Cup Grand Final, when she won the women's compound gold medal at the World Field Championships in Cardiff. Van Natta, who lines up alongside Britain's Nichola Simpson, Ivana Buden of Croatia, and Amendine Bouillot of France in Lausanne on September 27, defeated Sweden's Ulrika Sjowall in the gold medal match. That's her first individual world title! Two years ago in Gothenburg, Van Natta won the bronze.   The women's bronze this time went to Anne Laurila of Finland. Laurilla, who lost to Sjowall in the semis, defeated Inge Enthoven of the Netherlands in the third place shoot-off. (photo: compound women podium)    Barebow Men Italy's Sergio Massimo Cassiani, and Becky Nelson-Harris of the United States are the barebow gold medalists at the FITA World Field Archery Championships, which reached it's finale at St Fagans in Cardiff on Saturday. Cassiani won the men's title with victory by 56 points to 48 over Ladislav Voboril of Germany in the final.Earlier he defeated Mikael Olsson of Sweden in the semi-finals, while Voboril defeated another Swede, Mathias Larsson, who had qualified for the semi-finals in top place.   Larsson won the all-Swedish bronze medal shoot-off, beating his team-mate Olsson by 55 points to 53.   Barebow Women In the women's barebow, Nelson-Harris (left on photo) defeated defending champion Luciana Pennacchi of Italy in the semi-finals, and then went on to beat Sweden's Annika Ahlund (right on photo) for the gold medal.   Pennacchi missed out on a medal of any kind this time - she lost the bronze medal match to Manja Conrad of Germany.   Official Junior Category Official Junior Categories In Recurve Junior Men Massimiliano Mandia (ITA) took gold beating Yuan Youja (CHN) with the superb score of 65. Christopher Wells (GBR) earned bronze.   In Recurve Junior Women Ana Umer (SLO) won gold over another Chinese archer, Jiang Hui. Stefania Rolle (ITA) got bronze.   In Compound Junior Men, Alex Bridgman (GBR) won a shoot-off against Thor Finderup Sorensen (DEN) to clinch gold. The match was tied at 63, shoot-off 5-4. Florian Oswald (GER) took home bronze.   Exhibition Junior Categories In Compound Junior Women Malin Johansson (SWE) took gold over Daisy Clark (GBR). In Barebow Junior Men Stefano Iaccarino (ITA) beat Kalle Puman (SWE). In Barebow Junior Women, Louise Rees (GBR) won gold over the youngest Traffords’ sister from the USA, Miriam.   Congratulations to Llwynypia and to the new World Champions!   Peter Jones, GNAS Edited by FITA Communication