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Bogenschießen
als Sport
Wer
sind die aktuellen Olympiasieger, Weltmeister und
Deutschen Meister? Wo stehen die aktuellen
Rekorde? Hier soll eine Auflistung ohne Anspruch
auf Vollständigkeit Auskunft geben. Zur Zeit
werden die Daten von unseren Eleven
zusammengetragen.
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Sydney 2000
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Männer Einzel
Der Australier Simon
Fairweather hat Gold im Bogenschießen
gewonnen. Mit 113:106-Ringen besiegte der
30-jährige Profi im Finale Victor Wunderle
(USA). Die Bronzemedaille sicherte sich der
Niederländer Wietse van Alten mit
114:109-Ringen gegen Magnus Petersson
(Schweden).
Der 18 Jahre alte Abiturient Christian
Stubbe hatte in der ersten K.O.-Runde überraschend
den französischen Weltranglisten- Ersten
Lionel Torres ausgeschaltet und war in der
zweiten Runde am Chinesen Bo Yang
gescheitert.
Männer Mannschaft
Die südkoreanischen
Bogenschützen haben am Freitag im
Mannschafts-Wettbewerb der Männer ihren
dritten Olympiasieg gelandet.
Im Finale besiegten sie Italien deutlich
mit 255:247 Ringen. Die Bronzemedaillen ging
an das Team der USA, das sich im Stechen
29:25 gegen Russland durchsetzte. Nach den
regulären 28 Pfeilen hatte es 239:239
gestanden. Eine deutsche Mannschaft war
nicht am Start.
Frauen Einzel
Die Bogenschützinnen aus Südkorea
haben in Sydney alle drei Medaillen
gewonnen. Olympiasiegerin wurde Mi-Jin Yun,
die sich im Finale über zwölf Pfeile mit
107:106 Ringen gegen ihre Team-Kollegin
Nam-Soon Kim durchsetzte. Im Duell um Bronze
besiegte Soo-Nyung Kim die Nordkoreanerin Ok
Sil Choe mit 103:101.
Die drei deutschen Frauen waren bereits
in der Runde der letzten 32 gescheitert.
Cornelia Pfohl (Berlin) beendete das Turnier
als 19., Barbara Mensing (Gelsenkirchen)
wurde als 23. platziert und Sandra Sachse
(Schorndorf) belegte den 31. Rang.
Frauen Mannschaft
Südkorea erkämpfte sich den
ersten Platz in der Mannschaftsentscheidung
durch einen 251:239-Sieg über die
Ukraine. Die deutschen
Frauen erkämpften sich nach einer
Niederlage gegen die Koreanerinnen Bronze
mit 240:234
Ringen über die Türkei.
Strahlend
präsentieren die deutschen Bogenschützinnen
(v.l.) Cornelia Pfohl, Sandra Sachse und
Barbara Mensing im Archery Centre in Sydney
bei der Siegerehrung für den
Mannschafts-Wettbewerb der Frauen ihre
Bronzemedaillen.
Korea ist mit drei Mal Gold sowie je
einer Silber- und Bronzemedaille das
erfolgreichste Land im Bogenschießen.
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Athen
2004
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Day
1
After a
Ranking Round (August 12) without much
surprise with Korean archers in the
outposts, a new Olympic opponent
appeared to be a spoilsport for the
world’s greatest archers: swirling
winds swept into the ancient
Panathinaiko Stadium on the first day
of Olympic Round on Sunday August 15.
This
produced a string of surprise results
as some of the biggest star in
women’s archery failed to cope with
the contrasting conditions. Among them
were former world champion Natalia
Valeeva from Italy, Turkish Natalia
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The
two greatest performances of
the day were without any doubt
those of Bhutan’s Tshering
Chhoden, who defeated Lin Sang
159-156, and of Jasmin
Figueroa (photo) from
the Philippines, winner
of her confrontation with
Natalia Valeeva.
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this first day will remain in archery
history for another reason: a historic
four arrow tie breaker occurred in the
match between Polish Malgorzata Sobier
and Thin Khaing Daw Thin from Myanmar.
It was only the second time in Olympic
history that four arrows had been tied.
Day 2
On August
16 it was the turn of men archers to
start shooting in the historic
Panathinaiko. Most of the archers did
not succeed in managing the windy
conditions that had not left the
stadium since the previous day and
were not satisfied at all with their
scores.
The big
losers of the men’s 1/32 elimination
round were two Australian archers,
defending Olympic champion Simon
Fairweather and bronze medallist at
the 2003 World Championships David
Barnes. The other surprise of the day
was the great performance of
Bhutan’s Tashi Peljor (seed 52!) who
defeated 13th ranked French Jocelyn De
Grandis with 161 points, one of the
best scores of the day.
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Day 3
The
morning session of August 17 was
reserved for the women’s 1/16 rounds.
No problem for the defending Olympic
champion, Yun Mi Jin from Korea, and
her team mates Park Sung Hyun and Lee
Sung Jin. The three of them qualified
for the next stage without meeting any
opposition. On her way, Yun Mi Jin
even tied her own Olympic record with
a score of 173.
After
making history in the first
elimination round by becoming the
first Bhutanese athlete ever to win a
match at the Games, Tshering Chhoden
missed her best chance to progress one
step further in her match with
India’s Reena Kumari. As she needed
only a six with her last arrow to win
the match, Chhoden scored a five! In
the tie-breaker, her opponent hit a
seven, but Chhoden could not do better
than a four... After she got over her
great disappointment, the Bhutan’s
archer held her head high: “I have
four years until the next Olympic
Games in Beijing. That’s time to
train and improve. I want to win a
medal there”.
Other
great performances were those of home
star Evangelia Psarra, who got the
Greek fans to dream with her
qualification for the 1/8 finals, and
number 52 seed Kirstin Jean Lewis of
South Africa, who defeated India’s
Sharma Sumangala.
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afternoon was men’s time to shoot
their 1/16 round matches. Some great
performances ahead again, first with
the defeat of reigning world champion,
the Italian Michele Frangilli, beaten
by Japanese veteran Hiroshi Yamamoto.
The score admits of no discussion,
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Another
Italian, the European
Champion Marco Galiazzo, was
in a really tight corner in
his match with 20-year
old Mexican archer Juan
Rene Serrano. Still
leading before the last three
arrows, the young Mexican was
betrayed by his nerves and
scored only 24 out of a
possible 30 in the final
end leaving the victory
to Galiazzo 164-163.
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The
second best score of the afternoon
(just behind the Korean Im Dong
Hyun’s 171 points) was Chinese
Taipei’s Chen Szu Yuan’s doing
with 170 (photo), after shooting an
amazing seven 10s in a row in his
match against the Bulgarian Yavor
Hristov.
Day
4
August 18
was Golden day for women archers. With
six archers qualified for the ¼ final
rounds, the Asian continent secured
one more time its supremacy over
archery’s world.
The first
quarterfinal led to an upset as
Chinese He Ying was credited no points
for two of her arrows in her match
against British Alison Williamson.
First, she was deemed by the Judge to
have fired her seventh arrow out of
turn, and while her coach was arguing
about this decision, she then missed
the 40-second time limit again and was
awarded a second zero. She finally
lost her match by 109-89.
Later in
the morning, the defending Olympic
champion and reigning individual world
champion, Yun Mi Jin from Korea,
prematurely lost her Olympic crown in
her quarterfinal match with Chinese
Taipei’s Yuan Shu Chi (final score:
107-105).
The two
other Koreans, Park and Lee, both won
their respective semi-final matches,
leaving Alison Williamson and Yuan Shu
Chi to decide the Bronze medal, while
they were shooting for Gold. It was
known already that one of the Olympic
Games’ most amazing streaks would be
kept alive: it would be the 10th
consecutive win for Korea in women’s
Olympic events (back to 1984).
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after Alison Williamson gave Britain
its first medal since 1908 Olympics,
Park proved once again to be the form
archer of the tournament, becoming the
new Olympic champion after a 110-108
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Day 5
Thursday
August 19 was a great day for archery,
with exciting matches, high scores and
numerous (5000 people) as well as
famous spectators (among them were
Jacques Rogge, IOC President, and
Prince Albert of Monaco).
This
men’s golden day was rich in Olympic
Records. Korean Park Kyung Mo first
beat the 18-arrow record with 173.
Then, Chen Szu Yuan from Chinese
Taipei scored a new 36-arrow
Elimination Combined record with 339,
beating the old record by three points.
The third Olympic Records was young
Australian Tim Cuddihy’s doing with
340 in the 36-arrow Finals Combined.
Most of
the final matches remained
inconclusive until the very last arrow.
The major surprise was the early
eliminations of the three favourite
Koreans. Korea’s “bête noire”
was young Aussie Tim Cuddihy, who
defeated Jang Yong Ho 166-165 on the
final arrow of their 1/8 round, and
then scored another thrilling final
arrow win against Park Kyung Mo
(112-111). The remaining Korean, Im
Dong Hyun, bowed before Japanese
Yamamoto, who was competing in his
fifth Olympic Games, on the final once
again tight score of 111-110.
The
semi-finals finally pitted Galiazzo (ITA)
against Godrey (GBR) and Yamamoto
against Cuddihy. Godfrey led for much
of his match with the 21-year old
Italian but had to acknowledge defeat
when Galiazzo shot a perfect 30 with
his last three arrows to clinch the
match 111-109. |
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The
second semi-final produced one of the
greatest matches ever seen in archery.
Indeed, 17-year old Cuddihy and
41-year Yamamoto both equaled the
12-arrow Olympic Record with 115. In
the tie-breaker, Yamamoto first shot a
perfect 10 putting great pressure on
Cuddihy. As the 5000 souls who had
taken a seat in the Panathinaiko
Stadium were holding their breath,
young Aussie shot “only” a nive to
leave Yamamoto the right to fight for
Gold.
Two new
exciting and high-level medal matches
then, with Cuddihy winning the Bronze
over Godfrey (113-112) and Galiazzo
becoming the new Olympic champion with
a 111-109 victory over Yamamoto. |
Day 6
On Friday
August 20, Korean women confirmed
their archery supremacy by winning
their fifth successive team Gold medal.
But their Chinese opponents put their
Asian rivals to the wall in a dramatic
final, in which newly individual
Olympic champion Park Sung Hyun had to
shoot a perfect final ten to give her
team the Olympic title: 251-250. |
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the Bronze medal match, the young team
of Chinese Taipei, with promising Yuan
Shu Chi, Wu Hui Ju and Chen Li Ju,
proved too strong for surprising
French archers. The final score of
242-228 suffered no discussion and led
to a 100%-Asian podium. |
Day 7
Korea’s
archery greatness was confirmed once
more on Saturday August 21 at the end
of men’s team Golden day. The
Koreans took advantage of the final
day of competition to win their third
gold medal at this 2004 Olympics.
The team
of Chinese Taipei was left with almost
no chance in the Gold final. They
finally subjected to the law of the
strongest and left the Olympic title
to Korea 251-245. It is the Ukrainians
who completed the men’s team podium
after a 242-239 victory over the
American team. |
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