FITA INFO Newsletter November 2007 World Cup Final in Dubai
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FITA INFO Newsletter World Cup Final in Dubai November 2007 Great success! This Month's Headlines The Archery World Cup Final in Dubai proved a gigantic WORLD CUP FINAL 2007 success and crowned four new World Cup Winners! Great Success! ARCHERY WORLD PLAN The Live coverage of the competition was broadcast by First steps eleven TV channels: AESHOW: Showtime, Dubai, Pan Arab; FITA COUNCIL MEETING CNCCTV: CCTV, China; FREUSP: Eurosport 2, Pan Europe; Istanbul - 10-11 Nov. 2007 INZESP: Zee Sports, India; ITRAI: RAI (Sports Sat), Italy; FITA SHOP KRKBSN: KBS-N, (cable), Korea; RURTR: Sports, Russia; Brand-new Online Shop SAART: ART Arab, Pan Arab; TRTRT: TRT Turkey; UAPOVE: ANTI-DOPING Powerkhnost, Ukraine; USESPN: ESPN 360, (IP TV), USA. Registered Testing Pool 2008 World Conference on Doping JUDGES Death of Henrik Larsen DEVELOPMENT Algeria applies for Membership Meeting with Sudan NOC FAA Qualification Tournament Coaches Seminar in Cairo National Structure in Togo OS Coaches Course in Georgia FITA MEMBERS Contact Updates FUTURE EVENTS EMAU Championships 2008 Judges List for 2008 Events World Sport For All Games Youth Olympic Games 2010 Pan American Games 2011 Dola Banerjee from India took the World Cup Title in the JOB OFFER Recurve Women division. She beat the Korean Choi Eun Product Engineer at Geologic Young in a very tight and exciting match on a 70-meter BYLAWS floating platform at the Madinat Jumeirah Souk venue. In Men Recurve the best archer of the season, Russian Baljinima Tsyrempilov took the win over young, promising CALENDAR Mexican Juan Rene Serrano. HIGHLIGHTS See page 12 In the Compound category, a pregnant lady, Petra Ericsson of Sweden won the World Cup title in the women’s side, while Salvadorian star Jorge Jimenez clinched victory in the Partners men’s competition. & Associates See page 13 It is to be noted that the three first places in Compound Men are from the Americas: El Salvador (Jorge Jimenez), USA (Braden Gellenthien) and Brazil (Roberval Dos Santos). The Americas also won a silver medal in Recurve Men with Juan Rene Serrano. More information on www.archeryworldcup.org . World University Championships 7-20 July 2008 Page 2 FITA INFO 11/07 Recurve Men Recurve Women 1. Baljinima Tsyrempilov (RUS) 1. Dola Banerjee (IND) 2. Juan Rene Serrano (MEX) 2. Choi Eun Young (KOR) 3. Alan Wills (GBR) 3. Natalya Erdyniyeva (RUS) Compound Men Compound Women 4. Jorge Jimenez (ESA) 4. Petra Ericsson (SWE) 5. Braden Gellenthien (USA) 5. Sofia Goncharova (RUS) Olympic Games 8-16 August 2008 6. Roberval Dos Santos (BRA) 6. Jamie Van Natta (USA) Field World Championships 1-6 September 2008 Indoor World Championships 4-8 March 2009 Commonwealth Games 3-14 October 2010 Archery World Plan International Archery Federation Maison du Sport International Avenue de Rhodanie 54 First steps 1007 Lausanne - Switzerland Phone: +41 (0)21 614 30 50 The Steering Group that is heading the Archery World Plan’s Fax: +41 (0)21 614 30 55 implementation held its first meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. On Email: [email protected] the agenda was the review of the initial proposals submitted by a World Plan Working Group as well as a focus on planning for the coming year. The Group also discussed new initiatives for 2008 to ensure that the entire Archery family stays involved and informed on the progress of the plan. Working Group 1 is looking at the Core Values of Archery and presented their initial proposal this past weekend. The proposal was met with a lot of enthusiasm from the Steering Group and feedback from the meeting is now going back to the Working Group so they can finalise their proposal for the end of the year. Page 3 FITA INFO 11/07 Two Working Groups are currently up and running with another four to start early in 2008. The Working Groups are composed of internal representatives from Archery as well as external representatives from sponsors, other international federations and international sports organisations and media partners. More information on www.archery.org . FITA Council Meeting Istanbul – 10-11 November 2007 FITA Council met on 10-11 November in Istanbul for the first time since the Congress in Leipzig. Some important decisions were made in relation to the by-laws of the sport. In particular 61 bylaws were examined by Council and changes were made to improve the impact of the sport. FITA Council was also informed on the progress of many other activities. The FITA President, Dr Ugur Erdener (photo), opened the meeting and looked back at the events since Leipzig. He stressed the success of the World Championships in Leipzig and was also satisfied with the test event in Beijing. However some areas will need to be fixed and we are sure that BOCOG will deliver the best ever Games for Archery. Real impact on quantity and quality! FITA Council was very pleased to see the progress of performance of all teams participating in Leipzig. We had record participation despite that FITA reduced the maximum number of athletes from four to three per category. Even more impressive was the record performances from all participants. The difference between the top 10 and the 64th and even 128th place has shrunk tremendously. This is a result of the athletes and their support personnel becoming more and more professional. The fact that many new countries had excellent results and obtained Olympic Quota places shows the enormous progress since the quota places were introduced for the 1996 Games in Atlanta. Bylaw changes The key bylaw changes approved are: Simplification of the dress regulations but at the same time a stricter reinforcement by FITA especially for the team officials. A redefinition of the number of team officials and their position of them on the field of play to clarify the current rules as well as make sure that the TV cameras have an unobstructed view of the archers. Since the coaches will be further away they will now be allowed to use spotting scopes. Also for the athletes the scopes need to be at all times below the armpit to give an unobstructed view on the archers by TV cameras and photographers. For Field Archery several bylaws were submitted in order to reduce the shooting time as well as make the rounds more competitive. The rules that were approved are to change the scoring for all divisions and the X that was formerly only used to break ties will now be scored as 6. The shooting time for the 3 arrows in all parts of the competition will be reduced to 3 minutes. The scoring change combined with the stricter time limitation will make the rounds more challenging and reduce the number of ties. These rules will be used at the next World Championships which is also the qualifier for the next World Games. The 3D rules were modified based on feedback after the World Championships. Some of the doping rules were changed but no major changes were made awaiting the outcome of the World Conference on doping. Page 4 FITA INFO 11/07 A bylaw change where in match-play the Judges would make the decision on the arrow values was rejected. Archery remains a sport where the athletes or their representatives make the decision on the value of the arrow, and only when there is no agreement, a judge will make a decision. Para-Archery becomes an integral part of FITA FITA Council continued the process decided by FITA Congress in Leipzig in transferring the governance of Para-Archery from IPC to FITA. FITA Council adopted the transfer agreement and now the IPC Board of governors will be discussing this agreement at their next Board of governors meeting. The IPC Archery Forum in October already unanimously agreed with the transfer which was also the case for FITA Congress. The final part of the transfer will be the formal adoption by FITA Congress in 2009 and FITA becoming member of IPC in 2009 at the IPC General Assembly. However for practical matters the transfer will already be in effect as of 1 January 2008 and the new Para-Archery ad hoc committee will manage the Para-archery discipline. FITA TV Strategy and Marketing FITA Council expressed its satisfaction with the progress in TV distribution. Archery is becoming a permanent fixture of many TV channels in many of the key countries such as Korea, Russia, Ukraine, China, France, Turkey, India, Sweden, Spain, and Italy. In Leipzig during the World Championships a record of 7 Channels took the live signal and this record was broken for the World Cup Final with 11 channels. In terms of marketing FITA Council was informed of the changes expected for next year. Balmain Swiss Watches will be replaced by another member of the Swatch group and the new Watch company will be announced after the World Cup Final in Dubai. FITA Council thanks Balmain Swiss Watches for their support and looks forward to working with the new member of the Swatch holding. The negotiations with the other partners will be coming to a close in the coming weeks and announcements will be made on the changes to the program. Bidding process and Calendar FITA Council was informed on the progress of the bidding process of the Archery World Cup Final for 2010 and 2011. This project is advancing well and FITA looks forward to excellent candidatures next year based on the feedback received from the cities. For the first time FITA looked at finalizing its World Cup Calendar up until 2011 and coordinating this with the Continental Associations Calendar. A world cup event will be held in China in 2009 for a period of 3 years and Salt Lake City after the World Junior Championships is expected to have a World Cup for 2010 and 2011.