European Field Archery Championships, Poland 2015.

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[FONT=&quot]After arriving Sunday, with the equipment inspection/official practice/opening ceremony held yesterday, today the Championship kicks off with the 24 Target Unmarked round. The format is an Unmarked round and then a Marked round. This decides the top 16 archers to go on to the Eliminations rounds where they are whittled down to four which then slug it out for the medals.

The complete programme is below.




This is the promo video for the event and shows the area in which the event will be centred.

Number of Participants per category:

Recurve Men: 29
Recurve Women: 18
Compound Men: 33
Compound Women: 21
Barebow Men: 28
Barebow Women: 18
Junior Recurve Men: 14
Junior Recurve Women: 8
Junior Compound Men: 13
Junior Compound Women: 8
Junior Barebow Men: 10
Junior Barebow Women: 9
Men’s Team: 10
Women’s Team: 8
Junior Men Team: 5
Junior Women Team: 4

Number of Nations: 21 (as per 28.09.2015)[/FONT]

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This will be the area where the first two days will be shot:



Ireland is again represented internationally in a field Championships, by an All-Ireland team which will see several archers shooting against their club mates in different shirts.

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Day One, Official Practice and Opening Ceremony



One of our 'Green Shirts':




Jessica Nilsson is now shooting for Great Britain and will be taking on her old Swedish team mates.

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Jessica Nilsson.


Her sister, Freja, is also shooting BB for GB.


The Swedes will be seen is blue this time out.



Anne Lante of Finland, always a strong field competitor.



Mr Buden, source of some of the photos above, and father of Ivana who competes in the ladies compound division and Domagoj who shoots in the male compound division.



Go Ireland! Alan Convery, will need archery skills to match his sense of humour over the next week.

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Equipment Inspection



Lina Bjorklund with Erik Jonsson in the background




Martin Ottossan, shooting a new combination of riser and limbs.





Jonathan Andersson of Sweden, who won the recent World Field Test Event in Dublin in Recurve.

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Stine Asell, one to watch. Swedish BB.










Practice butt design

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Opening Ceremony








Photos by Dubravko Buden and Arctic-Archery.se

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Barebow Men after 72 arrows. Do the maths, check the arrow averages.......

Top score is a six, a gold is either a 5 or a 6.

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Barebow Women.

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Full results of all categories are available here.

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Qualification Day One:

Foggy start at practice.




Colourful character




A man well used to the fog and soft rain, Gilbert McCleland.




Gathering or the go.




On the March.




Let 'er rip.

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Lina Bjorklund, and her new riser.




Elliette Lalour, I believe.

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Two seasoned competitors, Lizzy Rees (GB) and Cinzia Noziglia (Italy)




Vicky Williams (GB) in the foreground, also well experienced.










Ulriki Koini




Orla O Connor (IRL)

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Sophie Benton and Freja Nilsson. Junior Ladies.

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The G-man.












Franz Haberler, Austria.

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James Annall

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The man who shot 375 today on an unmarked course for an average, per arrow, of 5.208!

Giuseppe Seimandi.

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Complete album here.

Photos taken by Dubravko Buden.

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Qualification Day Two.

Looks like it was the turn of the Compounds and Recurves to come in focus today.

Everyone clothed up, even judges and organisers.




Follow this man out.




View of the target from the further red pegs.




This Irish lady remains in the game tomorrow.

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One of Northern Ireland's top young archers.




And another.




Autumn is here.




This Irish lady also remains in the running.




Targets in open grassland, at least it's the marked round.




This is how an archer wears a coat to shoot.

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The illusive member of the team.




Looks like an up hill battle.




You don't get to see this in indoor competitions.




Still smiling, that sense of humour still there.

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Full results here.

Photos by Dubravko Buden.

tac foley

What a great thread - thank you very much!

tac
Former archer

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Photos from Arctic-Archery.Se.







Note riser.

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It's been a harsh couple of days. Between yesterday's Qualification round cut-off and today's Elimination round, all Irish archers are now out of the competition.
Each group of archers has been whittled down to four from a starting 16 this morning.
The first Elimination round of 12 targets brought the number from 16 to 8 and the second Elimination round halved that number to 4.
Semi-finals have determined the pairings for the gold and bronze finals on Saturday.

Irish archers finished 19th in the Men's Barebow; 13th in the Women's Barebow; 19th in Men's Recurve; 15th in Women's Recurve; 16th in Women's Compound; 23rd and 28th in the Men's Compound.
We had no archers in the Junior section of the competition.
The participation at the European Championship is such that the level of competition and standard is very similar the Worlds. The placings must be seen in that light.

It is the first time for a number of years that Irish archers have competed internationally in WA field archery and with such a large contingent.
It comes ahead of Ireland hosting the World Field Archery Championships in Kilruddery, Co Dublin, next year and on the foot of Irish archers representing their country in the World archery 3D Championships in Terni, Italy, earlier this year.

It takes time, planning, practice, finance, commitment and even more time for a country to work its archers up the ranking in these competitions.
Countries that consistently have archers place very highly, Sweden, Italy and Spain, for example, have a very strong national back up to the field archery team. This can include a strong national association to help fund the archers (perhaps allied to strong target archery participation), willing sponsorships, coaching and a wide national base of field archery to give the necessary experience and develop archers with the skill levels to compete internationally at the highest level.

We have some of the pre-requisites needed and bringing the World Championships to Ireland will help with some of the remainder.

The participation of Irish archers in these two recent elite competitions is a welcome start and our archers have blazed a path for others to follow.

Well done to those who took part and those who supported them.

La feina d’arribar-hi és dura, però el camí està marcat.
(The work getting there is hard, but the path is marked.) Josep Gregori, Field Archer.

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While the Individual competition is over for the Irish, the Women's Team, comprised of a compound, recurve and barebow archer, will compete in a head to head battle tomorrow. First match is against Italy.

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Elimination Day.













Safety????

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Don't miss.......... but these are now the best of the best.




Even the Swedes found it cold..










Note the riser.