Today was the team event in Antalya starting with the 1/8, 1/4 and 1/2 finals in the morning and finishing with the gold and bronze finals late in the afternoon. It is amazing to see that the four ti

9 June 2006

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11 Countries share the 12 medals in the Team Grand Prix

Antalya - June 09, 2006. Today was the team event in Antalya starting with the 1/8, 1/4 and 1/2 finals in the morning and finishing with the gold and bronze finals late in the afternoon. It is amazing to see that the four titles at stake were shared by four different winning nations, two from Europe and two from Asian (DEN, RUS, JPN, KOR).

Recurve Men

Larry Godfrey of Great Britain would have loved to offer himself a gold medal as a present on his 30-year old birthday here in Antalya. Unfortunately for him and his teammates Simon Terry and Alan Wills, they had to face a “rock”, the Japanese team led by the legendary Hiroshi Yamamoto and his always smiling friends Satoshi Kanemura and Ryuichi Moriya. In the very last match of the day, just at the time when the sky was darkening before a rain shower, Japan was defeating Great Britain on the score of 217-214. In the match for the bronze medal, Korea managed to beat the Chinese archers (221-218).

Recurve Women

The Korean ladies shot the highest score of the final four matches in the team recurve division (even better than their male counterparts!) with another amazing total of 224 out of a possible 240. They are thus adding another gold title to they quiver after they defeated they Asian neighbours from the People’s Republic of China (224-213). The third medal in this division was won by a European country, namely Ukraine, who beat Japan 217-209.

Compound Men

Some great scores were set in the medal matches of the team compound division today, starting with Denmark against the Netherlands with a score of 229-225. The Danish archers in gold and the Dutch in silver, it is the French who decided they would join them on the podium. After a very tight match with Great Britain, they finally won by only one point on the score of 227 to 226.

Compound Women

Three new nations for three new medals in the compound women division: Russia, Croatia and Mexico will leave Antalya with at least one medal around their neck. In the bronze match, the Mexican ladies left no chance to their opponents the Greeks to win the only South American medal of this Grand Prix team competition (221-209). The Russians, for their part, proved the world record they set early in the day was not at all a piece of luck: they easily defeated Croatia 228-220 to take the gold.

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Recurve Men

Japan

Great Britain

Korea

Recurve Women

Korea

China

Ukraine

Compound Men