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While the Field Crossbow discipline group celebrates the 2025 champions and recovers after a hard saison, the Match Crossbow scene meets in Strasbourg to collect world ranking points in two 30m and one 10m competitions. Accompanying the World Cup starts, the organising team from the French Shooting Federation and the host Racing Club de Strasbourg Tir prepared an opportunity to compete in the accompanying Grand Prix de France, giving the shooters the possibility of up to 5 starts from Thursday till Saturday. The range is well-prepared and the shooters as well. After the competition days, the qualifiers for the World Cup Finals in Winterthur(SUI) will be known. |
Friday, 12 September
The second 30m competition in Strasbourg, being the 4th in a row for 2025, brought a lot of surprises. Everyone has expected Swiss and French shooters running for the medal places, but it came otherwise. Friday was a German day. Victory and the gold went to Louis Fürst(GER), tied with second-placed Thomas Debenne(FRA), both 572 points. Marius Klöckers(GER) took bronze for 566 points. Fourth place was also taken by a German shooter (Benjamin Hügler, 565), followed by Swiss team members.
World Cup 4: Gold for Louis Fürst
Day 2 results:
With the aggregate results list of shooters competing only for Grand Prix de France with the results of the World Cup 4, best eight were determined to finish the day in a final for the 30m Grand Prix winner. Surprisingly, no ladies made it to the final this time, but local competitors were also represented. The dominating nations were almost equally represented and so were also the medals - see the final results:
Thursday, 11 September
After a light training and equipment control procedures in the morning, the 30m Open Class shooters entered their first World Cup competition of this long weekend. As we missed French shooters at the first issue of the 30m World Cup in Sezemice(CZE), the curiosity went towards the chances to break the Swiss dominance this year. Well, despite the tight competition at the top of the list (even with ties), only Thomas Debenne(FRA) made it to the medal range earning bronze, losing to second-placed Joël Brüschweiler(SUI) by tie with 571 points. Gold was secured by Joëlle Baumgartner(SUI) with 572.
Here are the results of Day 1: