September 2019
SEPTEMBER 2019
Office Staff
Recovering from assault World Archery development and education director Pascal Colmaire is recovering after being the victim of a violent assault in Uganda where he was delivering an Olympic Solidarity level two coaching course in the capital city of Kampala. Pascal was attacked on the last evening of the course, 3 September, while walking nearby his hotel, and was left with several skull fractures and damaged eyesight. Read more: https://archy.re/2mjKunn
Office updates There have been several changes in the development department due to Pascal’s absence during his recovery.
Melany Postigo, who was working in the World Archery Excellence Centre and spending half of her time on development and education projects, has transferred to a full-time role at the World Archery office as development projects coordinator. She is now responsible for all Olympic Solidarity matters and is coordinating the coaching seminar at the Centre. Her email address is [email protected].
Carlos Freitas, who was already assisting Pascal with the online training system, will now coordinate the education project with the World Academy of Sport. He can be reached at [email protected]. (Melany will assist him with the seminar and Jaekyung Lee with the online system access.)
Cécile Tosetti has joined the office as events coordinator. She will assist the new head of events and marketing, Thomas Aubert, and head of events and logistics, Fernando Suarez, in the department’s day-to-day operations. Her email address is [email protected].
Dot sport World Archery’s primary domain name is being changed to .sport. The website ‘worldarchery.org’ and email addresses ending ‘@archery.org’ will remain active but going forward, the primary URL will be ‘worldarchery.sport’ and all office emails will end with ‘@archery.sport’.
Obituary
Jean-Michel Piquet Long-time Belgian international recurve archer Jean-Michel Piquet died on Friday 27 September 2019. The 48-year-old shot at international tournaments until 2007 and also organised national level events in Belgium. Jean-Michel’s funeral will take place on Wednesday 2 October 2019. Read more: https://archy.re/2ooe4cq
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Members
Temporary membership The Yemen Archery Federation was accepted as temporary member on 25 September 2019. A decision on their full membership will be taken at World Archery Congress in 2021.
Online chats World Archery is holding monthly online calls with member associations. Participation is free but requires prior registration – links are provided directly to member associations by email. It is up to them to decide who is best suited to participate. Slides are always distributed to registered participants.
- 24 October 2019, 09h00 CET – Performance awards, world records and event registration Explanation of awards, world records and recognised tournaments – what’s available and the procedures for claims and registration.
All member associations are encouraged to participate. Recent calls have received positive feedback and covered useful information.
Office contact: Siret Luik at [email protected].
World Archery Americas World Archery Americas will hold the 2021 World Games continental qualification tournament during the world ranking event in Medellin on 1-7 June 2020.
The same event will host qualifier for the first Pan American Youth Games, also due to take place in 2021 in the Colombian city of Cali.
The continental qualifier for the Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place during the Pan American and Parapan American Championships in March in Monterrey, Mexico.
Achievements
Longines Prize USA compounders Braden Gellenthien and Alexis Ruiz won the 2019 Longines Prize for Precision awards after shooting 442 and 409 10s in qualification and individual matchplay across the Hyundai Archery World Cup season. The Prize for Precision is awarded annually to the most accurate archers. It is the second time that Braden has won the award. The first was in 2013. Read more: https://archy.re/2kwi0qg
Nations Award The USA finished top of the 2019 Hyundai Archery World Cup nations ranking to win the annual nations award for a record seventh time since the introduction of the international circuit in 2006. Korea was second and Turkey came third. The ranking combines all the points won by a country’s individual athletes and teams over the course of a single World Cup season. Read more: https://archy.re/2mTITVT
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World records Casey Kaufhold’s score of 675 out of a possible 720 points for the 72-arrow 70-metre ranking round has been officially ratified as a new recurve junior women’s world record. Kaufhold, 15, shot the score on 8 September 2019 in Annville, USA. She is the first archer from outside of Korea to hold the record. Five more double qualification records were set at the same tournament and several others over the past two months. Read more: https://archy.re/2mRGN8Y
Events
Calendar 2020 World Archery has released the calendar for the 2020 Hyundai Archery World Cup season. The 15th season of the Hyundai Archery World Cup will see elite archers compete at stages in Guatemala City, Shanghai and Berlin from April to June 2020. A final, whose host is yet to be announced, is scheduled for the end of September.
Read more: https://archy.re/2ndWDv9
World Cup Final bidding Potential hosts are invited to bid for hosting rights to the Hyundai Archery World Cup Final in 2020, 2021, 2022 or 2023. There is no deadline for bidding for the Hyundai Archery World Cup Final as each application is assessed upon submission. Bids for World Archery events are accepted from member associations, cities and companies.
Read more: https://archy.re/2mYB8yc
Road to Tokyo Reigning Olympic Champion Chang Hye Jin has been eliminated from the selection process for the Korean team and will not defend her title at the Games in Tokyo next summer. Chang finished 22nd in the second round of squad selections, which finished on 24 September 2019. Only 20 men and 20 women advanced to the next phase. Kang Chae Young and Lee Woo Seok lead Korean selections after two rounds. Read more: https://archy.re/2lnaG0v
Moscow 2019 The international archery season came to a close at the 2019 Hyundai Archery World Cup Final. Thirty-two of the world’s best athletes took to the arena next to Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on 6-7 September. Colombia’s Sara Lopez and Brady Ellison each went on to win a record fifth Hyundai Archery World Cup Champion crown.
On compound Friday, Lopez beat World Archery Champion Natalia Avdeeva of Russia, 149-139, to take the women’s gold in Moscow. Dutch world number two Mike Schloesser defeated world number one Braden Gellenthien of the USA, 147-144, to take the compound men’s crown.
On the second day of competition, world number one Kang Chae Young beat Chinese Taipei’s Tan Ya-Ting, 6-4, to win the recurve women’s gold medal in Moscow at her World Cup Final debut.
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Brady Ellison completed an incredible season where he became world champion, broke the 70-metre ranking round world record and rose to the top spot in the world rankings, with a 6-2 victory over Mauro Nespoli in Moscow.
It is the first time since 2019 that archers from four different countries have won the circuit titles.
Read more: https://archy.re/2kdEcFn
Asia Cup 2019 Ruman Shana defeated Shi Zhenqi of China to take recurve men’s gold at the third leg of the 2019 Asia Cup in the Philippines and become the first archer from Bangladesh to win a continental tournament in five years. The 24-year-old won three medals in total in Clark City. China won the other four gold medals available on recurve finals day at the Asia Cup.
Malaysia and Australia collected the compound titles. Aisyah Norazam and Juwaidi Mazuki won the individual compound titles as Malaysia totalled 10 podiums – and collected four golds. Malaysia finished second in the medal table behind China, which won four gold medals during recurve finals. Bangladesh was third thanks to Ruman Shana’s recurve men’s gold.
The competition was also the test event for the upcoming Southeast Asian Games. Read more: https://archy.re/2kSPM9c
Transplant Games The 2019 Summer World Transplant Games took place on 17-23 August in Newcastle, Great Britain and attracted more than 1400 athletes from 53 countries to compete over 16 sports. Thirty-five of those 1400 athletes were archers. The 15 women and 20 men represented 10 nations from four continents.
Read more: https://archy.re/2lLep7Q
Indoor World Series Registration is now open for all six of the events on the calendar of the 2020 Indoor Archery World Series. This upcoming indoor season also includes stops in Macau, Luxembourg, Rome, Sydney and Las Vegas. The tournaments are open entry, meaning archers do not have to be a member of a national team to compete. Registration for the first five events is completed through World Archery’s extranet. Entries for the Vegas Shoot are accepted through the tournament’s official website. Read more: https://archy.re/2kI23gN
Registration deadlines Macau Indoor Archery Open 250 Macau (CHN) 15 October GT Open 250 Strassen (LUX) 17 November TRUBall/Axcel Roma Archery Trophy 250 Rome (ITA) 9 December Sydney Indoor Archery Festival 250 Sydney (AUS) 23 December Nimes Archery Tournament 1000 Nimes (FRA) 5 January The Vegas Shoot 1000 Las Vegas (USA) 20 January
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Clean Sport
Prohibited list 2020 The World Anti-Doping Agency is the independent organisation tasked with protecting the integrity of sport against doping. It is responsible for the World Anti-Doping Code and each year releases an updated list of substances that are banned in and out of competition. The list applies to all events held under World Archery rules. Read more: https://archy.re/2oQfblj
Communication of sanction French archer Jonathan Giocondi has been suspended under clean sport rules. The athlete was found in violation of Article 34.2.1 of the World Archery Anti-Doping Rules after testing positive for the prohibited substance Atenolol, which belongs to the beta-blocker class of the World Anti- Doping Agency prohibited list. Read more: https://archy.re/2ngvebW
Judging
Newsletter 99 The new issue of the Judge Committee Newsletter is available for download from the extranet. It includes a presentation of the new judge committee following Congress in June and their first meeting during the Tokyo Test Event in July, some updates on E-Learning and interpretations, the list of appointments for 2020 events, and other advice to improve judging techniques.
Download: https://archy.re/2lpDvte
Coaching
Compound seminar World Archery’s accredited partner centre in the Thai capital of Bangkok recently held a week-long compound seminar with US coach Mel Nichols. More than 60 participants from 11 countries attended the September workshop. Topics covered included technique, tuning, warm-up, fitness and recovery, training aids and games, and mental approach. Read more: https://archy.re/2lkbNOl
Development
Algeria The Algiers Shooting Sports League organised a training course on 20-21 September for archery judges, including a new successful training course on Ianseo competition software. Supervision of the 16 participants was provided by Khaled Lamandé, World Archery Development Officer for Africa, continental judge, coaches and judges trainer, and trainer on results management software.
Postponed: Level 3 Coaching Course The level 3 World Archery coaching course that was planned to take place in the World Archery Excellence Centre on 4-10 November has been postponed due to the incident with Pascal. World Archery will circulate a new date as soon as it is finalised but it will not happen in 2019.
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National courses TBA Level 1 Coaching Course DR Congo TBA Olympic Solidarity Level 1 Coach for Libya Tunisia April 2020 European Level 1 Coach Trainer Course Greece
Courses open to all member associations October Level 1 Coaching Course in the Olympafrica centre Lesotho 4-10 November Excellence Centre, Level 3 Coaching Course (postponed) Lausanne (SUI) First ever Level 1 Coaching Course leading to a World Archery Excellence Centre, 26 Nov.-1 Dec. certification (Prior completion of online course is mandatory) Lausanne (SUI) Early February 2020 Excellence Centre, Same as above, in French (date change) Lausanne (SUI) Oct.-Nov. 2021 European Level 2 Coach Trainer Course Greece
Publications
Video guides USA Archery has released two feature-length video guides to tuning presented by world champion archers Brady Ellison and Jesse Broadwater. The pieces of content are available on- demand on Vimeo for a purchase price of 80 USD each. The educational videos are start-to-finish guides to setting up a recurve and compound bow.
Read more: https://archy.re/2mSmuIq
Contacts Complete directory at https://archy.re/2H46WX4
KOR - Korea Archery Association MAR - Fédération Royale Marocaine de Tir Creation: 1922 / Affiliation: 1963 à l'Arc President: Mr CHUNG Euisun Creation: 1957 / Affiliation: 1958 Secretary general: Mr CHOI Seungsil President: Mr Mohamed CHARIF Address: Secretary General: Mr Nour Eddine BOUTAYAB #243, 2F, Olympic Tennis Court Address: 424 Olympic-ro, Songpa-gu Espace Socio-Educatif 28 Avenue Mediouna Bettana 05540 Seoul 11040 Salé Republic of Korea Rabat-Salé Email: [email protected] Morocco Phone: +82 (2) 4204263 Email: [email protected] Fax: +82 (2) 4204262 Phone: +212 6 18 15 73 54 Website: www.archery.or.kr Fax: +212 5 37 81 41 47
MLT - Archery Association of Malta PLW - Palau Archery Association Creation: 1970 / Affiliation: 1971 Creation: 2006 / Affiliation: 2006 President: Mr John SCHEMBRI President: Brandon GIRAMUR Secretary general: Ms Michelle ABELA Secretary General: Ms Laura MANGHAM Address: Address: P.O. Box 8 PO Box 8005 Swieqi Post Office PW 96940 Koror Triq G. Bessiera Palau SWQ 2260 Swieqi Email: [email protected] Malta Phone: +680 4886562 Email: [email protected] Fax: +680 4886563 Phone: +356 21371234 Website: http://www.palaunoc.org/ Website: http://www.archery.org.mt/
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Calendar
2019 30 Sept.-5 October European Field Championships Mokrice Catez (SLO) 1-6 October Brazil Cup and South American Championships Marica, RJ (BRA) 19-26 October Asian Para Championships + PG CQT Bangkok (THA) 9-10 November Macau Indoor Archery Open 250 Macau (CHN) 21-29 November Asian Championships + OG CQT Bangkok (THA) 22-24 November GT Open 250 Strassen (LUX) 14-15 December TruBall Axcel Roma Archery Trophy 250 Roma (ITA)
2020 10-12 January Sydney Indoor Archery Festival 250 Sydney (AUS) 17-19 January Nimes Archery Tournament 1000 Nimes (FRA) 7-9 February The Vegas Shoot 1000 Las Vegas (USA) 8 February Indoor Archery World Series Finals Las Vegas (USA) 22-28 February ISSF International Solidarity Championships Dhaka (BAN) 23-29 March Pan Am/Parapan Am Championships + OG/PG CQT Monterrey (MEX) 25-26 March World Archery Americas General Assembly Monterrey (MEX) 5-9 April Oceania Championships + OG CQT TBC (FIJ) 10 April World Archery Oceania Congress TBC (FIJ) 18-26 April European Para Championships + PG CQT Olbia (ITA) 20-26 April Hyundai Archery World Cup Stage 1 Guatemala City (GUA) 4-10 May Hyundai Archery World Cup Stage 2 Shanghai (CHN) 19 May World Archery Europe Congress Antalya (TUR) 20-26 May European Championships + OG CQT Antalya (TUR) 1-7 June WRE + compound QT for 2021 World Games + QT for Medellin (COL) 2021 Pan American Youth Games 9-14 June European Grand Prix Porec (CRO) 15-21 June Para Archery World Ranking Tournament + PG FQT Nove Mesto (CZE) 21-28 June Hyundai Archery World Cup Stage 3 + OG FQT Berlin (GER) 6-11 July European Youth Cup Bucharest (ROU) 14-19 July European 3D Championships Maribor (SLO) 24 July-9 August Olympic Games (Archery: 24 July-1 August) Tokyo (JPN) 17-22 August European Youth Championships Lilleshall (GBR) 25 August-6 Sept. Paralympic Games (Archery: 28 August-5 September) Tokyo (JPN) 15-20 September World Archery Field Championships (Barebow/Recurve QT Yankton (USA) for Birmingham 2021 World Games) 26-27 Sept. TBC Hyundai Archery World Cup Final TBC 3-4 October European Club Teams Cup TBC
2021 25 June-5 July Mediterranean Games (Archery included) Oran (ALG) 15-25 July The World Games (Archery dates TBC) Birmingham (USA) 8-19 August Summer Universiade (Archery included) Chengdu (CHN)
2022 10-25 September Asian Games (Archery included) Hangzhou (CHN) 21 Oct.-13 Nov. TBC Youth Olympic Games (Archery included) Dakar (SEN)
2023 8-19 August Summer Universiade (Archery included) Ekaterinburg (RUS)
Red = Last Updates OG / PG / YOG = Olympic Games / Paralympic Games / Youth Olympic Games Green = Indoor World Series QT = Qualification Tournaments Blue = Para Archery Events CQT = Continental Qualification Tournaments Bold = World Ranking Events TBC = To Be Confirmed (= NOT CONFIRMED YET)
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