2008 WUC Archery: Qualification Round
July 9th, 2008
On Tuesday July 9th, the morning session started with the qualifications of women’s recurve and men’s compound. Subsequently, the qualification of women’s compound and men’s recurve proceeded. Although the weather turned windy and rainy in the afternoon, the competitors still performed a high level match.
Korean Trio Dominates in Recurve Women
In the qualification, the bastion of recurve archery Korea shot the highest score without surprise. Brilliant CHANG Hye-Jin scored 658 pts and took the lead. With 29 10’s arrows, KI Bo-Bae came second by 657 pts. The Chinese Taipei Olympic archer YUAN Shu-Chi ranked the third by 645 pts, took the honor for the host. The forth place was still occupied by Korean archer LEE Hyun-Chu, who shot 638 pts. She also gave Korea a helping hand in team’s ranking.
WANG Cheng-Pang (TPE)
TPE Olympic archers took the lead in Recurve Men
In the recurve men discipline, Chinese Taipei archers delivered the goods of their country by taking the first, third, and forth spot. Chinese Taipei archer WANG Cheng-Pang took the lead with 668 pts. Spaniard Prates placed the second by 664 pts. With 30 10’s arrows, Chinese Taipei archer KUO Cheng-Wei ranked the third. The three leading archers are all accredited for 2008 Beijing Olympic. The forth was Chinese Taipei archer LIU Ming-huang and the fifth was Korean JANG Seung-Hoon.
Korean Archer Rank the First in Compound Women
In the compound women discipline, Korean Oh-Hyang Kwon not only shot the highest score 342 pts in the round 2, she also took the lead by 675 pts. The following was the USA archer Erika Anschutz who ranked the first in the round 1, and made an excellent performance of 32 10’s arrows. Russian Viktoria Balzhanova and Albina Loginova who just arrived yesterday placed third and forth in the match, and the former scored 670 pts while the latter scored 669 pts, equally with 32 10’s arrows. Korea team has the best performance so far.
Frnech archer Sébastien
French Sebastien Stood out in the Compound Men
As the expected, French Sebastien stood out in the qualification. He shot 690 pts with 47 10’s arrows, as well as the highest score 347 pts in round 2. Jedo Greschock from USA, who placed first in the round 1 by 344 pts, ranked the second by 686 pts. Japan archer Kazuya Seki and Netherlands archer Emiel Custers placed the third and forth. All the competitors will participate in tomorrow’s individual elimination. After 30 minutes practice, the event will begin at 9:10 AM. Both the archers and the coaches are rolling their sleeves to shoot for the record as well as the honor.
A Dollar a Bottle
Environmental issues haves received more global attention than ever. A recycling measure, initiated by the OC, asks participants for returning their used water bottle in exchange for a new one. Or participants have to pay one dollar for a new water bottle if they don't. The OC hopes this policy will increase the awareness of all participants and call for further action.
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