Competition started in Ulsan!

In total, there will be 412 archers from 64 countries competing in Ulsan across all categories, as follow:


Individuals Teams Recurve Men 117 33 Recurve Women 99 29 Compound Men 113 25 Compound Women 83 21
The 1400 Club In the FITA Round, athletes shoot four rounds of 36 arrows at distance of 90, 70, 50 and 30 metres for men and 70, 60, 50 and 30 metres for women. The archers can break the world record on each distance or on the overall FITA Round.
1400 points at a FITA Round was the mythical barrier for a FITA Round, and it was shot today at the qualifications in Ulsan. In 2009, the archers well and truly broke it down. The assault was made at the Porec World Cup where 15 compound archers broke it and joined the “1400 Club”. Still, the club is a truly prestigious one. Today only one archer broke it—Reo WILDE with 1401 points. Here is a list of those that have reached 1400 points this season.
Compound Men No surprise to see two Americans on top of the rankings after the 90 and 70-metre distances. Reo WILDE dominated the 90m with 346 points and built an 8-point lead on 2nd placed Stephen CLIFTON (NZL) who had 338. Dave COUSINS (USA) and Paul TITSCHER (GER) followed with 337.
Despite only a 19th place at 70m with 343 points, WILDE held his first place overall with 689 points. In fact 26 archers (!) were within 7 points at 70m, the best one being Dejan SITAR (SLO) with 350 points. Never have the matches ever promised to be so tight at this distance during compound eliminations on Saturday! Following WILDE in the overall intermediate ranking was his teammate COUSINS with 685 (348 at 70m). CLIFTON had 684 (346 at 70m), SITAR was at 684, Shaun TEASDALE (NZL) and TITSCHER at 682, Vladimir FEDOSOV (RUS) and Jorge JIMENEZ (ESA) at 680.      Dave Cousin (USA) WILDE continued strongly at 50m and 30m. He scored 352 at 50m (2nd place) and 360 at 30m (1st place). He ranked 1st with 1401 points. COUSINS was not so consistent at 50m with 348 (9th place) and 359 at 50m. Still he held on to his 2nd place with 1392. JIMENEZ emerged at 3rd place with a good 352 at 50m and 358 at 30m. He achieved 1390 points.
TITSCHER and CLIFTON finished with 1389. Braden GELLENTHIEN (USA) moved up in the second part of the day, ending 6th with 1386, tied with SITAR. Another duo was at 1385, FEDOSOV and TEASDALE. A trio was at 1383: Patrick COGHLAN (AUS), world record holder Peter ELZINGA (NED) and Roberval DOS SANTOS (BRA).
Not a good day for the world champion Dietmar TRILLUS (CAN) who was 39th with 1369 points.
Compound Men Team In the team categories, the race for points meant two things: get a good seeding for the matches and, most importantly, qualify for the matches (16 teams)!
The USA was 1st with 2052 points halfway through the day. A surprising Russia was 2nd with 2026. Mexico emerged at 3rd place with 2017. Australia was 10th and the last team above 2000 points (2005). The race for 16th affected Italy, 15th, with 1983, Spain 1979, Norway 1977, Korea 1977, Belgium 1975 and India 1973.
USA finished 1st with 4179 points. Russia managed to keep their 2nd place with 4130. El Salvador emerged at 3rd place with 4115, just ahead of New Zealand, 4113 at France, 4112.
The race for 16th place was a tight one! South Africa finally secured it with 4055 points! Just one point ahead of Norway, 4054. Sweden, 4053, Denmark, 4053, and Iran, 4052, followed.   Albina LOGINOVA (RUS)    Compound Women Linda OCHOA (MEX) dominated the morning session on the women’s side with 345 at 70m (1st place) and 346 at 60m (2nd place). She had 691 points in total and a comfortable lead over Albina LOGINOVA (RUS) who achieved 684 points. The Russian was consistent but not quite at the same level as the Mexican: 341 at 70m (6th) and 343 at 60m (5th).
Two Koreans were following in close range. SEOK Ji-Hyun had 683 points—she was the best at 60m with 346 points. She was tied with her teammate KWON Oh-Hyang (3rd place at 70m with 342) and by Ivana BUDEN (exact same scores as KWON on both distances).
Erika ANSCHUTZ (USA) and Camilla SOEMOD (DEN) followed with 682 points at 6th and 7th place. Melanie MIKALA (GER) was the last one over 680 points for the morning—681 for 8th place.
OCHOA recovered from a low 335 points at 50m (12th place) with the top score at 30m, 359. She finished the day at 1st place with 1385. LOGINOVA stayed solid with 339 at 50m and 357 at 30m for a total of 1380.
Two Germans emerged at the 3rd and 4th place overall! MIKALA had a strong 341 at 50m and 355 at 30m to reach 1377 points. Andrea WEIHE had 337 and 359 to finish at 1375.
The Koreans followed tightly. SEOK had 1373, KWON and SEO Jung-Hee achieved 1367. Only BUDEN was in between with 1369. Laura LONGO (ITA), Ashley WALLACE (CAN) and SOEMOD completed the top 11, all with 1365 points.
World champion Eugenia SALVI (ITA) had a disappointing 37th rank with 1335.
Compound Women Team Halfway through, Korea was a surprising 1st with 2040 points! Russia had 2022, slightly ahead of the USA, 2018. Germany was at 2014 and Italy completed the teams “above 2000” with 2009. At 16th place, Norway had an 11-point advantage over Brazil, 1963 to 1952.
Korea was the only one to break 4100 points with 4107. At home, the Koreans will be ferocious! Russia finished 2nd with 4069. The USA had 4060, slightly ahead of Germany with 4057. Mexico and Italy had 4045.
The world champions, Belgium, were 14th with 3975.
For 16th place, Brazil turned it around over Norway! From an 11-point deficit they earned a 20-point advantage, 3953 to 3933.
Compound individual elimination matches will be contested on Saturday. Team matches on Monday.
Didier MIEVILLE FITA Communication  
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