Flash Quotes – Bronze and Gold Finals

  Recurve Men   IM Dong Hyun (KOR) – Gold Medal photo “I am elated. I came here to enjoy and I managed to do that. It was fabulous environment and I loved every bit of it. The World Cup title is an icing on the cake. I will go back home with very good memories from Lausanne.”   Viktor RUBAN (UKR) – Silver Medal “Although it’s a sliver I am not disappointed. I have been winning everything this year so this in a way will help me stay balanced. I am happy and look forward to a break now.”   Romain GIROUILLE (FRA) – Bronze Medal “It’s a great experience! You realise that you need to have competed in finals already to approach a World Cup Final in good conditions. This 3rd place finishes up a tremendous season with a victory in Porec, a 4th place at the European championships and a participation in the Olympic Games.”   “This morning, during the semi-final against IM, I put pressure on myself. I wanted not to disappoint all the French fans who had come here. In the bronze medal match, I put the boot in. I’m very happy with this victory over PARK Kyung-Mo, especially when I think that I was only five years old when he became world champion in 1993.”   PARK Kyung-Mo (KOR) – 4th Place “I did what I could but this is how the sport is. It doesn’t work all the time. The winds too were erratic and that did not help matters much.”   Recurve Women   Justyna MOSPINEK (POL) – Gold Medal photo “I’m over the moon! Still can’t believe it. I am the World Cup champion. The fact that I did it against PARK Sung-Hyun makes it even more special.”   PARK Sung Hyun (KOR) – Silver Medal “It was very close. I was a little inconsistent. Some of the shots that I thought would be 10s ended up as 8s. So it was not actually a great day for me. But I am looking forward to the future.”   YUN Ok-Hee (KOR) – Bronze Medal “In Korea we have high expectations levels. So if you ask me personally I am not very happy with the third place finish. But that is the way this sport is. You win some and lose some.”   Natalie VALEEVA (ITA) – 4th Place “It was a very strong field and I take this as a learning opportunity. I learnt quite a few things here and I hope I can bring them to good use in future.”   Compound Men   Dietmar TRILLUS (CAN) – Gold Medal photo “This title is very special for me. And I had to work extremely hard for this. But I am happy I could hold my own in crunch situation. The winds were doing their tricks I took a while to sort that out but finally I could do that. My wife really read the winds very well and that helped the matters a lot.”   Patrizio HOFER (SUI) – Silver Medal “To perform in front of home crowd is never easy. More over the sun was coming right into my eyes. It was not the easiest condition to perform. And I have to give it to Dietmar, he was very good today.”   Patrick COGHLAN (AUS) – Bronze Medal “I left it for very late. I wish I had come up with this performance in the morning. But any way a third place finish is something very special to me. It was a long flight to come here but every thing was worth it.”   Sergio PAGNI (ITA) – 4th Place “What can I say…? It was certainly not my day!”   Compound Women   Jamie VAN NATTA (USA) – Gold Medal photo “Finally... It will take a while to sink in. I have a reputation to make comebacks sometimes I wonder why. But I keep on doing it. Today again it was a string of 10s at the death that fetched me this title.”   “Now, I can get married and go for a honeymoon in a much happier state of mind. It has been a phenomenal year and I could not have asked for a better finish.”   Nichola SIMPSON (GBR) – Silver Medal “I am pretty disappointed, especially after such a good performance in the morning. I wonder what went wrong. I will have to take a look at the videos. The 10s ended up in 8s. I frankly don’t know where it all went wrong. Congratulations to Jamie anyway!”     Amandine BOUILLOT (FRA) – Bronze Medal “It has me tremendous here. We have spent four days treated like stars. I was less impressed during my semi-final than this morning in the first match. I was more relaxed to unroll my shooting. I really wanted to win this last match, but I still feel I miss experience. Here it’s special, there is no match to get prepared and you need to be ready right away. It’s a great season and it’s only my second year competing in the World Cup.”   Ivana BUDEN (CRO) – 4th Place “It was a face-off of top four archers in the world. So somebody got to lose. That was me today, but maybe if you do it tomorrow the result will be completely different. I can’t complain but I am little sad that I could not win anything.”   Aditya KUMAR / Laurence FRERE For FITA Communication