Committees August 2015 Election of chairs Athletes: Viktoriya Koval (Chairperson, 2019) C&R: Mark Miller (Chairperson, 2019) Coaches: Ki Ski Lee (Chairperson, 2019) Field: Cenneth Ahlund (Chairperson, 2019) Judges: Morten B. Wilmann (Chairperson, 2019) Board of Justice: John Chaplin (Chairperson, 2019) Marty Swanson (Deputy Chairperson, 2019) Read more: http://archy.re/1fkhzij Para athlete representative During the World Archery Para Championships in Donaueschingen Pippa Britton was elected as the para athlete representative within the Para Archery Committee. The athlete from Great Britain was re-elected for the term 2015-2019, after serving in the role since the Turin 2011 World Archery Para Championships. The only candidate, she was elected in by majority: 202 yes, 17 no and eight abstentions. Read more: http://archy.re/1jrquva Awards Thailand Role Model Her Royal Highness Somsawalee awarded World Archery Vice President Sanguan Kosavinta the Thailand Role Model certificate in a ceremony at the Government Public Relations Department on 29 July 2015. He received the award for his contribution to the community of Thailand in his position as President of the National Archery Association of Thailand. Read more: http://archy.re/1q2uvq5 IPC Athlete of the Month Five para athletes have been shortlisted for the Allianz Athlete of the Month poll for August 2015, among them para archer David Drahoninsky from the Czech Republic. The 2008 Paralympic champion added his first world title in Donaueschingen, Germany, shooting a match-play world record (144) in the men's W1 competition in the process. The nominations are compiled from submissions by National Paralympic Committees and International Federations. The public has until 12:00 (CEST) on Wednesday 9 September to vote for the athlete they want to be the Allianz Athlete of the Month for August 2015 via the http://www.paralympic.org.
August 2015 World Archery Newsletter Page 2 Events Wroclaw 2015 The third stage of the Archery World Cup in Wroclaw, gave clarity to the race for invitations to the 2015 World Cup Final in Mexico City. Linda Ochoa, Mike Schloesser and Choi Misun became the first three qualified athletes thanks to the results in Poland. At the event, compound medals when to Natalia Avdeeva of Russia and India s Abhishek Verma. JC Valladont took the recurve men s gold while Mackenzie Brown won her first international event, not long after her USA recurve women s team took its first team win in Archery World Cup history. Read more: http://archy.re/wroc15 Donaueschingen 2015 Eighty-two quota places for the Rio 2016 Paralympics were awarded at the World Archery Para Championships in Donaueschingen, the primary qualifying tournament for the Games. China s Wu Chunyan bagged three world title gold medals in recurve women s individual and team competition, and the mixed team event after scoring 55 points more than her nearest competitor, while Beijing 2008 Paralympic Champion David Drahoninsky added a long-overdue first individual world title in the W1 men s division. Visually impaired archery made its first appearance since 2009 and its first live appearance on Archery TV and the finals arena. Steve Prowse, who won a VI world title in 07, led a British clean sweep of the VI2/3 category. Read more: http://archy.re/1xebupz Rio 2015 Test Event The host country of the next Olympic Games, Brazil recently named its squad for the Aquece Rio International Archery Challenge the test event for the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics taking place from 15 to 22 September 2015 in the Games competition venue, the Sambodromo, in the heart of Rio de Janeiro. As host nation, Brazil has an automatic full quota of athletes for the archery events at Rio 2016. Youth World Archery Champion Marcus D Almeida, Daniel Xavier and Bernardo Oliveira comprise the recurve men s team, while Sarah Nikitin, Ane Marcelle Dos Santos and Marina Canetta make up the women s squad. Read more: http://archy.re/1jguier Mexico 2015 World Cup Final The third stage of the Archery World Cup came to a close at Wroclaw 2015 and the race for spots at Mexico City started to take shape. Thanks to their own and others results in Poland, Linda Ochoa, Mike Schloesser and Choi Misun became the first three athletes locked for the Mexico City 2015 Archery World Cup Final. Now the last chance to pick up qualifying points towards the Archery World Cup Final is stage four of the annual circuit in Medellin, which runs from 8 to 13 September 2015. Read more: http://archy.re/1n3qgwj
August 2015 World Archery Newsletter Page 3 Rio 2016 Paralympic Quota The Donaueschingen 2015 World Archery Para Championships acted as the primary qualifying tournament for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Eighty-two places were available in both the mixed team competition and individual events. Each top-four (semifinalist) mixed team won two places, one men s and one women s, for their nation to attend the Paralympics. Further places were available to the nations represented by top individual finishers. A historic first: all five continents won quota places! Read more: http://archy.re/1o31m4a Coaching World Archery International Seminar The organising committee of the 7th World Archery International Coaching Seminar to be held from 30 September to 3 October 2015 announced the extension of the registration deadline to 11 September 2015 due to the summer holidays. So far, 50 participants from 15 countries have registered to the event. Renowned archery experts such as Kisik Lee, Oh Kyomoon, Pierre Julien Deloche, Juan Carlos Holgado, Pascal Colmaire and many more are expected as lecturers. For more information and to register to this seminar, please contact Mrs Deqa NIAMKEY at dniamkey@archery.org. Youth Latin American programme During the second semester of 2015, Ivan YOTOV will conduct missions in Venezuela, Guatemala, Argentina, Costa Rica, Paraguay and Puerto Rico. OS courses in Africa Pascal Colmaire, World Archery Development and Education Director, conducted a level 1 Olympic Solidarity coaching course in Khartoum, Sudan from 9-18 August 2015. Portugal s Carlos Freitas has been conducting a level 1 coaching course in Kigali, Rwanda since 26 August and until 6 September 2015. Olympic Solidarity Coaches Scholarship Betty FLORES MARTINEZ from Venezuela was awarded the prestigious coaches scholarship from Olympic Solidary and the National Olympic Committee of Venezuela. She will take part in the Catalan CAR Sports Science University from September to December 2015 in Barcelona, Spain to develop her coaching knowledge and develop a project to further develop archery in Venezuela. Development PVC workshop during 2015 TIZOCATA William Sephton of South Africa conducted a PVC workshop that gathered eight participants from Ivory Coast and Benin during the TIZOCATA tournament that took place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast from 3-4 August 2015. Then followed a level 1 and 2 coaching course, before the event concluded with a tournament with various categories including the bamboo division. Competition results: http://archy.re/1vvxybs
August 2015 World Archery Newsletter Page 4 Member associations activities 19-28 October OS European Level 1 Coach Trainer Course Athens (GRE) 17-23 November OS Coaches Course La Paz (BOL) 20-26 November OS Coaches Course Kuala Lumpur (MAS) 7-12 December OS Coaches Course Tehran (IRI) TBC OS Coaches Course Taipei (TPE) Courses open to member associations 30 Sept. 3 Oct. World Archery Coaching Seminar Fuengirola (ESP) 18-24 October Level 2 Coaches Course Bangkok (THA) 4-8 October Compound Training Camp Bangkok (THA) 16-22 October Level 2 Coaches Course Bangkok (THA) 23-30 October Asian Training Camp & CQT Bangkok (THA) 22-28 November Level 1 Coaches Course Bangkok (THA) Member Associations Togo It is with great emotion that World Archery was informed of the passing of Mr Élias Edem Américain Tohonou-Mensah on the last day of the International Grand Prix and TIZOCATA 2015 in Abidjan on 21 August at the Sylvanus Olympio Hospital after his illness was fatal to him. This lover of archery went away leaving a void in Togo, in a federation where he was one of the few pillars. Américain will be sincerely missed. Performances World records Several world best marks were set at the occasion of the 2015 World Archery Para Championships in Donaueschingen, Germany. Nineteen-ninety-eight world champion Alberto Simonelli led the Italian compound men s open team to set a new para archery world record with a combined 2062 points in qualifying. Read more: http://archy.re/1uhef1v Russia s recurve men s open team shot a huge 1926 combined score to set a new world qualifying record by 92 points. Current individual world record holder Bato Tsydendorzhiev led recurve men s open qualification as the Russian team dominated the category. Read more: http://bit.ly/1knfvm4 China set a new world record of 157 out of 160 for the 16-arrow match in compound open mixed team competition as they advanced to the Donaueschingen 2015 final, defeating top seeds Italy and a strong Russian team in the process. The duo of Lin Yueshan and Cao Hanwen set the world-best score during the first round of the competition when facing France, defeating them by an impressive margin: 18 points. Read more: http://archy.re/1kng1ku
August 2015 World Archery Newsletter Page 5 Stepanida Artakhinova shot 147 for the 15-arrow match during the Olympic secondary tournament. After missing out on winning a Rio 2016 Paralympic quota place for Russia during eliminations in Donaueschingen, Stepanida Artakhinova did all she could to secure one in the secondary tournament. The London 2012 individual bronze medallist s last match, against Reppe, saw her beat the 15-arrow match world record for the compound women s open category. The Russian athlete was not the only archer to break a matchplay world record on the day. Beijing 2008 Paralympic Champion David Drahoninsky did the same in the quarterfinals. He beat the defending world champion, Jean Pierre Antonios by 10 points. The 144 total was a new world best mark. David now holds the majority of world records in the W1 category, for athletes with impairment affecting both the top and bottom of their bodies. Read more: http://archy.re/1o33yzv The Chinese W1 men s team posted 201 for the 24-arrow match during the first morning of finals at the Donaueschingen. The matchplay score was a new world record, and enough for Han Guifei, Liu Huananand Wang Zhusheng to beat the Czech Republic, featuring Beijing 2008 Paralympic Champion David Drahoninsky, to the W1 men s team bronze medal. Read more: http://archy.re/1ev8mhr
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August 2015 World Archery Newsletter Page 7 Calendar Highlights 2015 31 Aug. 6 Sep. World Archery 3D Championships Terni (ITA) 5-11 September Commonwealth Youth Games (Archery: 7-11 September) Apia (SAM) 8-13 September Archery World Cup Stage 4 Medellin (COL) 15-22 September AqueceRio - Rio 2016 International Archery (Test Event) Rio de Janeiro (BRA) 26-27 September Test Event World Field Championships 2016 Dublin (IRL) 1-11 October European Masters Games (Archery: 6-10 October) Nice (FRA) 2-10 October 6th CISM World Summer Games (Archer: included) Mungyeong (KOR) 3-4 October European Club Team Cup Riom (FRA) 6-10 October European Field Championships Rzeszow (POL) 7-11 October Asia Cup Stage 3 Kish Island (IRI) 24-26 October Archery World Cup Final Mexico City (MEX) 1-8 November 19th Asian Championships + CQT Asia Bangkok (THA) 21-22 November Indoor Archery World Cup 2015/16 Stage 1 Marrakesh (MAR) 10-19 November Asian Para Archery Championships + Para CQT Asia Bangkok (THA) 9-10 December Indoor Archery World Cup 2015/16 Stage 2 Bangkok (THA) 2016 15-17 January Indoor Archery World Cup 2015/16 Stage 3 Nimes (FRA) 28-31 January African Championships + CQT Africa Windhoek (NAM) 29-31 January Indoor Archery World Cup 2015/16 Stage 4 + Final Las Vegas (USA) February March Oceania Championships + CQT Oceania TBC (TGA) 1-6 March World Archery Indoor Championships Ankara (TUR) 2-10 April European Para Archery Championships + Para CQT Europe Challans (FRA) 26-20 April European Grand Prix, 1st leg Sofia (BUL) 26 April 1 May Archery World Cup Stage 1 Shanghai (CHN) 10-15 May Archery World Cup Stage 2 + CQT Americas Medellin (COL) 24-29 May European Championships + CQT Europe Nottingham (GBR) May or June TBC Para Final Qualifying Tournament Nove Mesto (CZE) 1-5 June World Archery University Championships Ulan Bator (MGL) 13-19 June Archery World Cup Stage 3 + Final Olympic Qualifier Antalya (TUR) 21-25 June European Grand Prix, 2nd leg Riom (FRA) 19-23 July European Youth Championships Bucharest (ROM) 5-21 August Olympic Games (Archery: 5-12 August) Rio de Janeiro (BRA) 6-10 September TBC European 3D Championships TBC 7-18 September Paralympic Games (Para Archery: 9-16 September) Rio de Janeiro (BRA) 27 Sep.-2 Oct. World Archery Field Championships Dublin (IRL) Sept. or Oct. TBC Archery World Cup Final TBC 1-2 October European Club Team Cup Sofia (BUL) Red = Last Updates Bold = World Ranking Events Green = Indoor Events Blue = Para Archery Events CQT = Continental Qualification Tournament TBC = To Be Confirmed (= NOT CONFIRMED YET)
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