World Archery Youth Championships – Quotes of the Recurve Qualifications

 Recurve Junior Men   Luca MELOTTO (ITA) – Defending world champion (photo right) "It's my 4th world youth championships, and it's always the same emotions. The level of the competition is higher than in the past. I hope to win, of course! (He laughs.) It's a beautiful place to shoot here, with the archery field at the foot of the mountains."   Recurve Junior Women HAN Gyeonghee (KOR) – Leader after qualifications on her performance "I’m not quite satisfied with my performance today. Actually this performance is only about 90% of what we expected. Tomorrow I will practice for the Youth Olympic Games qualifications with my team."   CHOI Kyunghwan (KOR) – Delegation official, on the performance of the recurve women’s team "As expected, we did a great job for qualifications. It’s not bad but not quite satisfying… not as good as the team expected!"   CHOI Seungsil (KOR) – Women’s coach, on the weather conditions "The weather today was confusing. It was windy and the sunshine was so strong. My athletes were affected by that, but they performed well."   Compound Junior Women   Kendal NICELY (USA) – Defending world champion (photo left) "Today's competition is very close, almost anyone has a chance. It's a really nice place to shoot. I'm the defending champion from last year and I hope to reach the same result here. So far our team is in the lead. I'm in 3rd right now and one of my teammates [Samantha PRUITTE] is in first, so we're doing pretty good!"   Samantha PRUITTE (USA) – Leader after qualifications (Compound Junior Women) How do you feel about your performance today? "It went well, I wish I had done a little bit better, but all in all it’s OK."   Were you expecting to qualify in 1st place? "I knew I could do it. Also it depended on what everybody else was doing, but as long as I did my best…"   What are your expectations for the rest of the week? "I’m hoping to make it all the way to the end of the competition and be first, but you can never know what will happen!"   Vanahé ANTILLE FITA Communication