Sebastian Peineau successfully defended his Shanghai 2014 title in dramatic style, winning a shoot-off against Mr Perfect Mike Schloesser of the Netherlands in the gold medal match.
“I am so happy because last year I won my first World Cup final last year against my teammate PJ,” said Peineau. “I didn’t come here expecting to make another final, but I knew I just had to do my job and get the 10s.”
“The match was awesome. We both shot 147, and I put in a great X in the shoot-off.”
Peineau led for much of the match but shot a couple of bad arrows towards the end. It let Mike draw things up and sent the final to a tiebreaker.
“I aimed slightly off with the last arrow! The sight was just on the ten line,” Peineau revealed he told himself to trust his feeling and go with the shot.
It was, in his own words, “super”. And it was also closer to the middle than Mike’s 10.
Two years in a row: Seb Peineau, Shanghai Champion.
In the bronze medal match, veteran archer Dominique Genet beat Mexico’s Mario Cardoso by a single point. He was two points ahead after a couple of loose arrows in the third end, and despite Cardoso shooting a clean last three to scrape back a point, the more experienced Frenchman took the match 144-143.
The medal was Genet’s 16th at a World Cup stage, though he didn’t shoot the events in 2013.
“I felt a lot of pressure,” admitted Dominique. “I haven’t been on the finals field for quite a long time, so getting back here was a huge achievement.”
