European Junior Championships Portugal 2007

[timppa]

Here we (finnish team) are in Portugal, first team at the official hotel. We came yesterday, weather is fine.
Internet connection is very expensive here, I am paying now 12 euro for 24 hours.

First pics online:
Archery pictures / Jousiammuntakuvia (c) Timo Rantanen

Federação Portuguesa de Tiro com Arco

[grantwomack]

It seems we actually do have a team out there. Found the competitor list on the website link above:
Barber Tom Competitor RCM Team
Wheeler Alec Competitor RCM Team
Mortlock James Competitor RCM Team
Rudge Matt Competitor CCM Team
Gardner Matt Competitor CCM Team
Bunce Jake Competitor CCM Team
Smith Sarah Competitor RCW
Smith Rosie Competitor CCW
Davies Kirsty Competitor CCW
Spouge Edward Competitor RJM Team
Croft Glen Competitor RJM Team
Guiton John Competitor RJM Team
Smith Jenesta Competitor RJW
Arnold Matthew Competitor CJM Team
Kalmaru Tapani Competitor CJM Team
Fenton George Competitor CJM Team

Good luck to all those competing! Thanks for the first day of photos, Timo - I'm looking forward to the rest!

[Ian_S]

Thanks for providing the photos Timo Did you get your camera fixed or have you invested in a new one?

Judging by this photo (Targets at Junior Europeans) they seem to have an interesting use for car tyres to "peg" the targets down. Does this really work??

Grant, there was a posting last week (see GNAS Junior Team For Portugal) that listed the Junior team. It was in response to your thread about announcing teams. However, I agree 100% with you that this kind of information should be readily available on the GNAS website. We shouldn't have to rely on this forum to get this kind of information.

[iscap_boy]

Originally Posted by Ian_S

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Judging by this photo (Targets at Junior Europeans) they seem to have an interesting use for car tyres to "peg" the targets down. Does this really work??

That's the first time that i see that here in Portugal...usually they use a iron and tie the target to the ground....but in Algarve (where the EJCC will be held) sometimes it's very windy.

[iscap_boy]

BTW, are you enjoying Portugal? Hope that you get some hot weather

[Ian_S]

Well I think I've managed to find some results for the Cadets qualification round that took place today (27th June). The Junior results don't seem to be there yet. I'm not too impressed with the results pages, they don't seem as good as the FITA ones.

Recurve Cadet Women
32 competitors, Top Score Tatiana Sejina (Russia) 656
GB Archers
15. Sarah Smith 600

Compound Cadet Women
12 competitors, Top Score Ekaterina Korobeyinkova (Russia) 670
GB Archers
8. Rosie Smith 617
12. Kirsty Davies 594

Recurve Cadet Male
55 Competitors, Top Score Luca Melotto (Italy) 657
GB Archers
7. Tom Barber 647
14. Alec Wheeler 635
15. James Mortlock 634

Compound Cadet Male
23 Competitors, Top Score Marc Remie (Netherland) 687
GB Archers
7. Matt Rudge 678
16. Jake Bunce 664
17. Matt Gardner 661

[Ian_S]

Recurve Junior Women
37 competitors, top score Elna Richter (Germany) 634
GB Archers
35. Jenesta Smith 538

Compound Junior Women
19 Competitors, top score Malin Johansson (Sweden) 668

Recurve Junior Men
55 competitors, top score Jean-Charles Valladont (France) 647
GB Archers
5. Edward Spouge 631
14. Glen Croft 623
38. John Guiton 593

Compound Junior Men
32 competitors, top score Matthew Arnold (GB) 675
GB Archers
1. Matthew Arnold 675
14. Tapani Kalmaru 662
28. George Fenton 636


Well done to all and especially to Matt Arnold

There's no indication of weather conditions, but based on the scores I'm guessing it might be a bit windy.

[timfatheroftom]

The official website is possibly the worst for any intenational event that I have tried to follow!

Apparently it is no better on the field, archers find out where they qualified when they get back to the hotel!

Happy days!

[Ian_S]

The individual elimination rounds took place yesterday (Thursday 28th).

If I can believe the results pages I've managed to "scrounge", we have some GB archer successes.

Tom Barber has made it to the Semi Finals of the Recurve Cadet Men
Matt Arnold has made it to the Semi Finals of the Compound Junior Men

Way to go guys

The semi finals and medal matches take place on Saturday. So good luck to both of them.

It's team matches today (Friday) and GB have teams in the Recurve Cadet Men (1st match against Portugal), Recurve Junior Men (1st match against Poland), Compound Junior Men (1st match against Russia), and Compound cadet Men (this will be a semi final match). So good luck for all the teams.

[grantwomack]

Bad luck to Jake Bunce - knocked out in the 1/8 round with a 115! It's the highest losing score though, so will still gain him a 9th.

Best of luck to the teams and to Tom and Matt. Hope the weather holds!