Noziglia’s mega marked day vaults defending champ to world field pole

Defending world field champion Cinzia Noziglia shot 30-plus points more than any other barebow woman on the second day of qualification – the 24 marked-distance targets – today in Lac la Biche, jumping from fifth to first in the leaderboard and securing the top seed at these championships.

Noziglia’s two-day total of 669 put the Italian archer 14 points clear of day one leader Fawn Girard.

“Today, I shot the blue course, yesterday the red one. The courses are lovely, the weather is great. Everything is nice,“ she said. “We’ll see what happens during eliminations tomorrow.”

Each bowstyle (barebow, compound and recurve) shot a different 24-target course for today’s marked round after yesterday’s unmarked.

They’ll rotate again, to the last course, for tomorrow’s matchplay bracket.

Giuseppe Seimandi was a big leader before the barebow men walked out for today’s marked course. That lead diminished – but while he didn’t dominate, he did do enough to retain pole with 719 points, ahead of returning winner David Jackson (706) and five-time World Archery Field Champion Erik Jonsson (696).

Seimandi won this event in 2006.

Olympic runner-up Brady Ellison (785) and Germany’s Elisa Tartler (730) qualified top in the recurve events. Ellison came in almost 40 points up on any other recurve man.

Former outdoor World Archery Champion Nico Wiener (836) leapfrogged to the top of the compound men’s list, while women’s world number one Ella Gibson (827) struggled and fell from first to third behind Amanda Mlinaric (828) and a surging Paige Pearce (835).

“We all started a little rough, with our [sight] marks running a little low,” said Pearce, who shot 419 for the day, behind only Mike Schloesser’s 420 in the men’s event. “But I think what I did really well was adjust quickly, and managed to put together a solid score.”

“I’m really happy to be qualified first and I’m really looking forward to the matches.” 

Pearce is back-to-back defending champion, having won in Cortina in 2018 and Yankton in 2022. (No championships were held in 2020.)

Richard Krejci (730), Zana Pintaric (698), Dewey Hathaway (822), Giulia Di Nardo (813) and Ludvig Rohlin (714) seeded top in the under-21 championship events. No world title is being awarded in the barebow women’s under-21 competition as the minimum entry number was not reached.

The top 16 qualifiers in each category advance to tomorrow’s individual eliminations.

Finals take place this weekend and are available to watch live with a subscription to archery+.