Roy Rose
Day 1 - Qualification
Korea.asexpected.immediatelyflexed itsmuscleinboththemen'sandwomen·s recurve divisions. Seasoned perfom1ers Kyung Mo Park and Jae Hun Chung, holding down first and third places after the 90and 70meterranges,withRussian veteran Balzhinima Tsyrempilov spliting the two. Olympic semi finalist, Great Britain'sLaurenceGodfreycontinuedhis good form to place fourth while ageless USA champion Butch Johnson, waswell inthemix at numbersix.
DefendingchampionMicheleFrangilli at fifteen.OlympicsilvermedalistHiroshi Yamamoto at twenty-two, and Dutch star Weitse Yan Alten at seventeenth, began steadily, while Olympic Gold medalist MarcoGaliazzoin42ndplace,andAussie bronze Olympic winner Tim Cuddihy at 37th, had slow starts. Other potential finalist, Vic Wunderle of the USA(39th) and 2000 Olympic champion Simon Fairweather (70th) had disappointing placings.
15 year old Koran debutante, Tuk YoungLee,ledcountrywomenMiJinYun, and favorite Sung Hyun Parkafter70and 60 meters, intheladiesclass,withNatalia Yaleeva in close attendance. The USA's Jennifer Nichols, withthe topscoreat 60 Metres, was also well positioned in 6th place.
In the CompoundDivision, the USA made a very impressive start with teammates Dave Cousins and Braden Gellenthien leading, from in-form Canadian, Kevin Tataryn, and defending World Champion, Clint Freeman of Australia. Other high profile contenders MortenBo(6th) PeterElzinga(7th)Dejan Sitar (12th) and Chris White (18th) were also in good form. Erika Anschutz of the USA, held a one point lead over Spain's FatimiaAgudo,withdefendingchampion,
43rd FITAWorld Outdoor Archery Championships
June 20-26, 2005 - Madrid, Spain
Article by Roy Rose
MaryZorn, close by in 4th place. Jamie Yan Natta rounded out a promising start by the USA finishing 7th. Former champion, Ulrika Sjowall of Sweden (50th) and french hope Francoise Volle (65th)werewellbackafterDay1.
Day I
Men's Recurve
K.M. Park
B. Tsyrempilov
J.H.Chung
Ladies' Recurve
T.Y. Lee
M.J.Yun
S.H. Park
Men's Compound
D. Cousins
B. Gellenthien
KTataryn
Ladies' Compound
E.Anschutz
FAgudo
J.Hansdah
Day 2 - Qualification
With the completion ofthe qualifying FITA round, thecream of world archery certainlyrose to the top, with significant scoring inallcategoriesfromthemajority offavored archers.
The men's recurve saw the Korean's Park and Chung on top with 1365 and 1352, with Tryrempilov at 1350, and India's Tarundeep Rai just one point behind. Frangilli moved up to I0th, Yan Allento 11th and Galiazzo andYamamoto to 17th and 18th, respectively. Americans Butch Johnson and Vic Wunderle had contrasting days Johnson dropping from 6th to 28th but Vic moving up from 39 to 29. Highlight for the men's recurve was a 359 at 30 metres by Korean Seung Hoon Han.
In the ladies' division, favorite, and world champion Sung Hyun Park's 1364 took her to the lead over teammates Lee and Yun with the USA's Jennifer Nichols well incontentionin4thplacewithastrong 1346.
Dave Cousins' ordinary 30 metersdid not prevent him from being the leading men's compound qualifier with 1379. Gellenthien retained 2nd with 1373. B movedupto 3rd, Elzingato4thandWh to 5th, but defending champion Freem fell back to 15th. Fellow Aussie Patri Coghlan wasthe star performer, 2nda� 1 metres and Ist at 30 with 358. Fat11 Agudo took over at the head of t women's compound leader board, wit!· 1377, while the American trio ofZo1 AnschutzandVanNattaat 3rd,4thand5 Russia's Anna Kazantseva was the da) outstandingcompetitor, Istat 50mand2 at 30.Day 2
Men's Recurve
K.M. Park
J.H. Chung
B. Tsyrempilov
Ladies' Recurve
S.H. Park
T.Y. Lee
M.J. Yun
Men's Compound
D. Cousins
B. Gellenthien
M. Boe
Ladies' Compound
F.Agudo
A. Kazantseva
M.Zom
Day 3 -Elimination Rounds 1-64
Head to head competition always unearthssurprisingresults,andthefirstday of these confrontations was not the exception with pre tournament potential finalists falling by the wayside.
lnthemen'srecurvehighprofilelosers included top qualifier Park, England's Godfrey, Aussie Simon Fairweather, DeBuo of Italy, world field champion Sebastian Rohrberg and Taipei's Cheng Wei Kuo. Chung and defending champ Frangilli's171'swereimpressive18arrow totals and Aussie Tim Cuddihy at 167 signaled the return to form.
Some unexpected eliminations too in
