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IAU World Cup Veliko Trgovišće 2024 - Important information

Due to the reconstruction of the football field in Veliki Trgovišće, the IAU WORLD CUP and 29th CROATIA CUP competitions will be held on the football field in Tuheljski Toplice. All the competition participants are housed in this spa, so this might be a better solution.
There were also some minor corrections in the Invitation Letter. Please familiarize yourself with the changes.

Our dear Yoshiaki Sugiyama is gone

Rest in peace, dear friend!

Dear friends,

Our crossbow family lost one of the great legends of our sport.
Our dear Yoshiaki Sugiyama (JPN) is gone. A dear and cheerful man, a true lover of field crossbows, has left us. He performed at competitions even in his advanced years.
Yoshiaki became interested in crossbow as a student in the 1970s. He joined the Japan Bowgan Shooting Association in 1971 and was always the top shooter in Japan.
1983 at the 3rd IAU Match Crossbow Bad Homberg Germany Yoshiaki was a member of the Japanese team. It was at this event that the IAU recognized Field Crossbow shooting. Yoshiaki was involved with the preparation of new Field rules.
He placed eighth in the IAU World Championships field division in 1994. At the IAU World Championships in Switzerland in 2008, he was 6th in the senior competition and third in the 50m distance.
At the Asian Championships, he won medals in everything.
We will never forget him as a cheerful, smiling athlete and a great man. He always wanted to help. He had a good word for everyone.
Our thoughts and best wishes go to his family and friends.

IAU World Cup field crossbow Plumlov 2024 closed

In the small Czech town of Plumlov, the IAU World Cup in the Field Division was held on Saturday, June 22, 2024. The competition was dominated by Croatian athletes who won all the medals. 
In the men's competition, 19 competitors from 6 European countries participated. Domagoj Pereglin won first place, Martin Oborovečki second, and Andrej Krstinić came third. 
In the women's competition, 11 competitors from 3 European countries took part. Valentina Mrnjavčić Pereglin won the victory; the second was Sanja Komar, and the third was Mihaela Oborovečki.
In parallel with the IAU World Cup, the 1st Moravia Cup competitions were held. Croatian contestants dominated this competition as well. HRV 1A won as a team, HRV B came second, and Czechia A came third. On Sunday, this competition will continue with the Match Play discipline. Result List!

After the first World Cup, the IAU Men's and Women's Ranking List was formed.
  The organizers would like to thank the participants and officials for attending The 1st MORAVIA CUP, and they are looking forward to next year.

ECH Zagreb 2024 - PRELIMINARY ENTRY FORM

Dear Mr. President and dear Sports friends,

We are truly grateful for your participation in this prestigious competition. In the invitation letter, we introduced you to all the essential details of the organization of this great competition.

Please fill out this Preliminary Entry Form and submit it by July 12. We need this information to organize the competition better.

You have already been informed that we managed to secure accommodation for all WCH participants in the Maistra City Vibes Hotel International, where the banquet will also occur, and in the Hostel Arena. Rest assured, both accommodations are conveniently located near the venue of the Zagreb Hippodrome.

Hotels request confirmation of these reservations in the form of a 50% advance payment payable by July 26.

Based on the preliminary application, our official agency, Conventa grupa, will issue a prepayment invoice for the accommodation payment in advance for 50% of your competitors and officials who will perform in Zagreb.

Of course, if your final reservation will be different, you will pay only the difference to the final reservation.

We trust that you understand this situation and help our organization. We look forward to meeting you soon in Zagreb. I appreciate your help.

Dragutin Vrbek, President of the Organizing Committee of ECH Zagreb 2024

Competitions in Innsbruck Closed – More Celebrations for the French Team

Saturday June 1st was another busy day on the range on Eggenwaldweg in Innsbruck, offering the world’s elite the second World Cup competition for this year’s ranking. One more start in female and in the male category for the World Cup, combined with starts in the Austrian Open, with the possibility of a final participation, made some shooters from the field end up with no less that four starts during these two days. But we see the raising need for events like this, mixing the top-class shooters with young and medium advanced athletes. This approach supports continuity and learning by presence. We have seen rookies from the year before being well placed in both World Cups and a new, curious generation advancing in the second line. Let us hope for more such competitions for the future.

As for the results, no new record on the second day, but the record holder from the day before stepped to the top of the podium again. Dimitri Dutendas (FRA) won the second day with a score of 394 and took the lead also in the world 10m ranking. Second place went to Jakub Novák (CZE) with 392 – he obviously likes this range, given his one victory here in the last year. Third place went to Louis Fürst (GER) for the same score of 392, using a countback rule in this case.

In the women’s category, the French team celebrated a double victory. 1st place went to Coline Hamelin (placed 2nd the day before) with 390 points; that makes her the leader of the world ranking. The 2nd place belongs to Lisa Roettelé for a score of 389 points and the third place was won by Monika Hurschler (SUI) with 388.

The two-day event ended up with a traditional musical evening. Special IAU recognition awards were handed over to Manfred Hofbauer, the soul of the competition, and Friedl Anrain, the organization co-ordinator in recognition for their year-long contributions for the advance of the world crossbow sport.

We look forward – although the IAU does not have an official confirmation yet – that there will be a new issue of this successful event in 2025.

Check here for the results and here for the actual world ranking.

Good-bye Innsbruck, hello Wil!

World Cup 10m Match Kicks Off with a World Record

The traditional Austria Open event around Corpus Christi holidays in Innsbruck opened the saison in the 10m Match Division series of World Cups. On day one, the first relay of the men’s competition brought a result of the extraordinary class, just one point close to the absolute score of 400. Dimitri Dutendas (FRA) scored a row of tens (100, 100, 100, 99), just with a single close 9 in the 39th shot, and raised the 10m world record to the value of 399. The holder of the previous world record, Romain Meignan (FRA) finished second with a total of 394. The bronze medal was won by Simon Eiglsperger (GER), scoring 393 points.

The women’s category brought another type of difference. The medal winners (1. Marie Roy / FRA, 2. Coline Hamelin / FRA and 3. Jolanda Prinz / GER) scored all the same result of 389 points, so that the medal value had to be decided by the value of the last series of 10 shots. Moreover, places 4, 5 and 6 followed by a score of 388 – which is promising for the upcoming competitions for the world ranking placement.

The second issue of the 10m World Cup will continue on the next day.