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Match World Cup and Austrian Open closes in Innsbruck

 

Day 2 of the World Cup 10m in Match Division, along with Austrian Open, brought again high quality performance, mixing the favorites with shooters who followed suit later in time. The leads in the world ranking in both categories are emerging, but there is still room for surprises in the next two matches bringing valuable points.

The competition was closed with a nice victory ceremony and a banquet, soon turned a party. Despite the news preceding this event, that this might be our last time in Innsbruck, we ended up with good news, passed to us from the Shooting Union of Tyrol: there will be an Austrian Open and World Cup 2024, same time, same location!

Ah yes, the results: in the category of women, the gold went again to Jolanda Prinz (GER, 395), allowing her to take the lead in the entire World Cup, but the second placed Britta Wolf (GER, 394) is following her very closely. Bronze went also to Germany with Lisa Forstner (390).

In the men’s category, gold goes to France with Romain Meignan (392), silver to Switzerland with Joel Brüschweiler (390) and bronze to Germany – Marius Klöckers (389).

Check here for the complete results.

See you in August in Wil (SUI)!

 

Surprising Czech victory on Day 1 of World Cup in Innsbruck

The 10m Match Crossbow World Cup Series continues in Innsbruck along the Austrian Open event, hosting 116 athletes from seven participating countries. We are very pleased to see the numbers of shooters of all ages growing again!

Innsbruck is traditionally hosting the Austrian Open, which allows shooters with less probability to score in a World Cup, compete along the world’s best. Such opportunities shall be offered more often, to secure motivation and passing of know-how to a growing number of shooters and clubs.

Unlike the World Cup in Munich, where the favorites took the podium, victory of this day in the men’s category went to Jakub Novák (CZE), who scored an outstanding result of 395. The second and third places went to France, with Michael Dhalluin (392) and Romain Meignan (392) respectively.

In the category of women, Germany took the whole podium with Jolanda Prinz on the gold position (393), followed by Britta Wolf (393) and Sandra Reimann (390).

For a complete result list of Day 1, refer to Intermediate Results.

The competition continues the next day with the 3rd 10m Match Crossbow World Cup in a row.

 

World Cup Munich - Match Division - Day Two

On Day 2 of the World Cup event, the second competition featuring the 30m Match Crossbow was on the program. Another sunny day, but this time spiced up with the famous Munich wind. Appearing subtle, but still strong enough to force the athletes to shoot very carefully and using more time and attempts. In the end, the effect on the results was less dramatic than expected.

The winning ranks were taken by the same athletes as the day before, but in slightly different order. 

Gold was awarded to Thomas Debenne (FRA) – 571 (283,288), silver to Joëlle Baumgartner (SUI) – 568 (275,293), and bronze went to Ramona Bieri (SUI) – 564 (279,285).

The results of Day 2 can be seen here: 30m Open Class - Day 2

Also watch the actual world ranking.

The World Cup series continues next weekend in Innsbruck / AUT, this time with two more 10m competitions. Bis bald!

 

World Cup Munich - Match Division - Day One

The Match Division World Cup weekend on the Olympic shooting range in Hochbrück near Munich started with a long day. After a longer forced break, the 30m discipline was on the program again as the starter of the series. First medals and first world ranking points were earned in the open class: Gold went to Swiss shooter Joëlle Baumgartner – 571 (276,295); silver to another Swiss shooter Ramona Bieri – 568 (280, 288). Bronze goes to France with Thomas Debenne – 564 (280, 284).

The afternoon of Day 1 was filled with the 10m competitions in the categories of men and women. In the men’s category, the winner, Romain Meignan from France, scored a fantastic 396 and took the lead in the 10m ranking. Second place went to Stefan Reichhuber from Germany (393), followed by another German shooter Christian Dreßel with 392 points.

In the ladies’ competition, shot on a late evening, the first two winning places go to Germany. Gold was earned by Jolanda Prinz (392), the silver medal by Britta Wolf (390). Bronze medal winner was Lisa Roettele from France with 388 points.

The results of Day 1:

30m Open Class

10m Men

10m Women

 

Invitation to the IAU World Championship in Field Division - Hungary

We are happy to announce the initial information about this year's World Championship in Field Crossbow, which will be held in Dunavarsány, Hungary.

The event will take place from 14th to 20th August 2023.

We look forward to receiving your applications and hope to see you all in Hungary.

Please refer to the calendar for the invitation and registration forms.

 

The World Cup Saison in the Match Division starts in Munich this year

 

Another good news, this time for match crossbow shooters - the planned dates for the first World Cup are confirmed and the invitation and registration documents are out.

The German Shooting Sport and Archery Federation is pleased to host the first Match World Cup in 2023, taking place from 1st to 4th June 2023 at the shooting range “Bayerischer Sportschützenbund e.V.” in Munich-Hochbrück.

As we missed 30m competitions last year, this time we start with two 30m and one 10m match. The plan is to have four 30m and four 10m start possibilities during the season and therefore a good basis for a World Cup ranking. 

We are looking forward to meet you all in the wonderful city of Munich and have a good saison start!