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For a second time in a row, the attendants of the World Championships in Field Crossbow gather in Dunavarsány, south of Budapest, to determine the best of class shooters in the categories of men, women, juniors, cadets, senior men and senior women. The first day, traditionally with the IR900 Classic event on the schedule, was dominated by Croatian shooters. The thunderstorm a day before contributed to the air humidity, combined with overcast but warm weather and almost no wind resulted to a load on the physique of the competitors, but also to less problems with the shooting conditions. All in all, the setup was promising and in due course of the match, so many dreams came true. We are proud to announce 9 (nine) new world records shot on this day. Over all, Judith Törökné Zsótér (HUN) – category senior women – shot a world record at each of the three distances: 65m – 276; 50m – 291; 35m – 289; in total 856 means an improvement of her old world record by 36 points! Domagoj Pereglin (CRO) raised the 35m world record to 299 out of 300 possible and the total IR900 men’s record to 880 points. This made him to World Champion in the individual competition and contributed also to the new world record of the winning Croatian team, which passed the 2600 mark for the first time in history and counts now 2605 points. Karl-Heinz Blumtritt (GER) and Zeljko Tijan (CRO) raised ex aequo the 50m senior men’s record to 292 points. |
Click here for a complete result list of the individual competition and here for the results of the teams.
The World Championships continue with the Match Play pairings on Friday and Saturday. Start lists can be downloaded in the Calendar section.