Les nouvelles/news le 09 aout/August 9, 2000
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Congratulations to Jacques Carriere, Allen Casey, Lynne Thauvette and all the many, many volunteers who just put on a fabulous 3D national championships in Aylmer, PQ last weekend!!! I still don't know how they managed to get 3 straight days of great weather in 2000, but they did it. Opening and Closing Ceremonies were held in brilliant, warm sunshine. FCA was represented by President Al Wills and Director-at-Large/3D Chairman Don Lohnes (and me, too).
There were 315 archers from all over Canada in attendance. The host club will have all the results up on their website (connect through FCA: (www.FCA.ca) as soon as all the scores are verified.
The Grand Prix was really exciting and the quality of shooting was very, very good. Personally I am going to remember the two women shooting that skinny-looking turkey way out there at about 42 meters! They both nailed it!! Amazing. Grand Prix winners for 2000 are Martine Page and Alain Cadieux. Congratulations to both!
Next report I will highlight the medallists and some of their scores in the various divisions.
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Felicitations aux Jacques Carriere, Allen Casey, Lynne Thauvette et tous les autres membres du comite d'organizateur des championnat cible animaliere en 2000! Tous ses efforts ont produit un grand spectacle de trois jours le weekend passe. Et, je ne suis pas sur comment, mais il faisait beau tous les trois jours de championnat. Pendant les ceremonies d'ouverature et de fermature, le soleil a brille! Miraculeux! La FCA a ete represente par notre president M. Al Wills, et notre directeur et president du comite 3D M. Don Lohnes (et moi, aussi).
Sauf que la province de Terre-Neuve, tous les regions canadiennes ont ete represente par les 315 archers. Le club Les Archers d'Aylmer publiera tous les resultats corrects quand tous les scores ont ete verifie. Si vous voulez lisez tous les resultats contactez Le ronde "Grand Prix" a ete vraiment plein de suspense et le niveau des tireur(e)s a ete tres haut. Moi, je n'oublie jamais les deux femmes qui ont tire a un petit dinde en distance de plus ou moins 42 m! Les deux ont tire un dix! Incroyable. Les gagnant de 2000 sont Martine Paget and Alain Cadieux. Felicitations, les deux!
Le bulletin prochain, je mentionera les gagnant(e)s et leurs scores.
Contents:
1. New Canadian Open Record- Nouveau record canadien ouvert
2. Tournament changes/Changement de calendrier des tournois
3. Olympic Preparation Tour/le chemin de Sydney (uniquement en anglais)
4. Un echange (uniquement en francais)
5. Championnats Canadiens/National Target & Field Championships
6. Paralympic Games/Jeux paralympiques
Enfin/In Closing
1. New Canadian Open Record- Nouveau record canadien ouvert
Master man compound-maitre homme arc démultiplié: Camille Robert , Laval QC. dans une FITA Star 1440 avec un score de 1350. 2000-07-29.
Master man recurve-maitre homme arc à recourbure Roger Garrod, Dugald MB in a Canadian FITA 1440 with a score of 333 at 30meters, 2000-07-22.
Cadet girl recurve-cadet fille arc à recourbure: Marie-Pier Beaudet, Lévis, QC., dans une Fita Star 1440 avec un score de 294 à 70 mètres, 2000-07-25
Senior woman compound-femme senior arc démultiplié: Dawn Groszko, Calgary,AB. in a Canadian FITA 1440 with a score of 349 at 60meters, 2000-07-08 ; in a Canadian 900 round with a score of 285 at 55 meters, 2000-06-25 ; at the indoor canadian championship in a FITA 1 with a score of 578, 2000-03-05.
Félicitations - Congratulations
Christiane Murphy
Gestionnaire des records canadiens/Canadian Records Coordinator
e-mail : Fax : (418) 622-7611
2. Tournament changes/Changement de calendrier des tournois
fita star 12 et 13 août prochain
Les 12 et 13 août prochain, la fita star de Ste-Marthe du Cap est annulée pour les deux journées. Si tu connais quelqu'un qui avait l'intention de s'y rendre peux-tu faire le message pour éviter des déplacements inutiles.
The FITA Stars originally slated for August 12-13 at Ste-Marthe du Cap have been cancelled. I would expect that they may be rescheduled. If you know
anyone who intended to go, please pass along this information to them.
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Canadian FITA at Nepean Archers, Ontario are changing the date of the August 19-20th FITA to the 26-27th, to avoid the conflict with the Nationals. The June 25 tournament was cancelled due to rain and will be scheduled next year.
Le club de Nepean, ON changera le date de leur tournoi canadien de 19-20 aout au 26-27 aout. Aussi le tournoi le 25 juin 2000 a ete annuelle a cause d'un tempete. On le tirera en 2001.
3. Olympic Preparation Tour/le chemin de Sydney (uniquement en anglais) Joan McDonald has sent installments from the Olympic preparation tour in Europe. These are the highlights of those reports.
Hello everyone ! Rob Rusnov is Canada's archer on the Olympic team - Dave Dalziel is the alternate. We are in Europe to participate in two majorcompetitions to get tournament ready for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney,Australia in September. Rob and Dave will compete in the Grand Prix de Pays Volvic in Riom, France (the same venue as last year's world championships) and the Denmark Grand Prix in Brondby, Denmark.
July 23- 24th
We left Toronto for Montreal to pick up our flight France on Sunday, July 23rd. The flight was delayed by about 2 hours which made our connection in Montreal a little close, but we made it. I was sure the luggage and equipment wouldn't. I don't care whether we have clothes to wear - I just care that the archery equipment gets there!!! In Paris, we held our breath waiting for the luggage......and waiting.....and waiting. Finally Rob took off to scan other luggage belts and there it was - on the wrong belt. It was all soaking wet because it was pouring outside, but at least we had everything. We will be here until the morning of July 26th, when we travel by train to Riom.
Subject: Day 3 Olympic Training Tour - Europe 2000 We had a train to catch this morning at 8:48 am to Riom. I set my trusty clock for 6:30 am so we would be ready for the taxi which was to come at 7:30am. I awoke with a jolt at 7:20 am!! Not sure what happened to the clock, but.....rushed up one flight to wake up the guys. They were better organized than me - they were all packed !! I went as fast as possible and we made it downstairs by 7:40 and off to the Gare to Lyon train station. We were there a little bit early and had time to grab an orange juice and bun before finding our train. The only untoward event was that I spilled my entire can of orange juice down my jacket and pants helping to get the luggage on the train!
The wind here is just like last year - the pitts. But both are shooting pretty well, so we'll see. For Rob it's a matter of how well he can keep his head together during the competition. It will be interesting.
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Subject: Day 4 - Olympic Training Tour - Europe 2000
Thursday
I guess we were all pretty tired this morning - no one woke up until about 10:30am. By the time we got downstairs, we had missed breakfast so we decided to go to the field and eat on the way. Dave and Rob have both brought their roller blades and it didn't seem too far to the range so we decided that they would blade and scout the route and we could take turns pulling the equipment on Rob's wheels. When we finally made it to the range, it was calm but cloudy. The German team arrived and practised with us and late in the afternoon some French archers came, but we have not met more than about 10 other archers. There are lots of people working on setting up the tournament field and they brought over a supply of water for us which was very much appreciated - especially after our long hike.
Later in the afternoon, dark clouds appeared over top of the mountains (for those in BC - read big hills) and shortly a strong, cold wind came up. The practise range faces east - exactly the same as the field did last year at Worlds, but the wind was from behind so it affected shooting a bit but was tolerable. Since it was the end of our practise session anyway, we didn't shoot in it very long. However, if it does this on the tournament field, which faces north, we will have a really good cross wind from left to right.
Subject: Day 5 - Olympic Training Tour - Europe 2000
Friday, July 28th
We were better at getting up this morning making it by about 8:30am. I guess we are starting to get used to the time change. We made it in time for a good breakfast of granola, terrific croissants, yogurt (except Dave) and juice. But not before looking out the window and seeing the trees blowing all over the place. Oh dear !! It was also cloudy and quite chilly.
It was certainly chilly and very windy. But like yesterday afternoon on the practise range it came from behind, so we were able to practise for about 2 hours. We worked on the same things as yesterday and then on developing a good tournament plan for tomorrow. But we did not like the look of shooting on the tournament field which would have a heavy cross wind. This afternoon is official practise. We counted the butts and noted that there were only 20. We checked our entry information and noted that they expected about 150 archers. When we were finished practising we went over to chat with the organizers and found that they were very disappointed with the turnout, especially from France. They did not know why it was so low, but they said the quality was good. One person from the French team was here and the German, Russian and Spanish teams were here as well as us. So it will still be an excellent level of competition. I was certainly surprised since 1st prize is 15,000 French francs for each category - equivalent to about $3,330. 2nd is about $1,000 and 3rd about $600. Oh well.....better for us !!
Subject: Day 6 - Olympic Training Tour - Europe 2000
Saturday, July 29, 2000
Today Rob and Dave will shoot a full FITA. Practise doesn't start until 9:30 so we had a leisurely breakfast and were ready to go when the "man with no name" came to pick us up. The news outside was not good. It was cloudy, very chilly and the wind had not changed from official practise yesterday - it was really blowing. Rob, Dave and I talked again about having to be competitive no matter what the weather was doing and they would have to fight to
maintain their technique with every arrow. Easy for me to say - much trickier to do.
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During the practise round, I was asked if I would be on the Jury of Appeal along with the coach from Spain, which I agreed to. Thankfully, the Jury had nothing to do!
Practise was uneventful and scoring started for 90 meters right on time at 10:30. The wind was coming from left to right across the field, bow arms were bouncing around but both Rob and Dave managed the distance relatively well. It was quickly obvious that the tournament was going to be dominated by the Russians. At the end of 90 meters Tsirempilov had the lead with a 304 followed by the other 4 Russians, an archer from Spain, one from France and then Rob in 8th place with a 279. Dave was in 9th place with a 278.
70 meters was more of the same, but near the end, the wind picked up quite a bit and everyone - even the Russians had two pretty bad ends. The top score was 309. Dave shot a 299 to trade places with Rob - so Dave was 8th and Rob was now ninth.
The start of 50 meters seemed a bit better but by this point many tempers were beginning to fray. Then, on the last couple of ends the wind picked up quite suddenly while the archers were at the target scoring. Many of the people behind the line had to make dashes to the shooting line as scopes started blowing over and since there are many of them close together, when one goes down it starts a chain reaction like dominos along the shooting line. By this time Tsirempilov was way out in front shooting exceptionally well in the conditions, but in the last two ends even he was shooting 6's.
Most of the way through 30 meters, Rob was in 8th place with Dave in 9th which would mean they would compete against each other in the first round of match play tomorrow. Certainly neither of them was going to move up and we considered dropping one of them down to 10th, but the leader board only went to 9th place. At this point Richard Guenoun (the man from the organizing committee who had adopted us) was working on the leader board and gave us the print out he was using to help us decide what to do. We noted that 10th place was only a few points back, so we decided to do nothing until the last end and see what would happen. As it turned out, the French archer and alternate on the French Olympic team, Bastien Lapenteur, moved up into 9th place, solving our problem.
Subject: Day 7 - Olympic Training Tour - Europe 2000
Sunday, July 30
Practise this morning was scheduled for 8am - 20 minutes only and then the first matches are at 8:30. We all hesitated when we looked out the window. The sky was blue and nothing was moving - all the trees and bushes were absolutely still. It was a perfectly beautiful day for shooting.
Rob's first match was against Bastien Larpenteur of France. Bastien is the alternate for the French Olympic team. Rob opened with a 53 but so did Bastien leaving them tied. Rob's second end was not great, no tens and a six for a total of 49, but Bastien only managed a 50 leaving Rob only 1 point back. On the last end, Rob opened with a 28 while Bastien shot three 8's for 24. Rob's 4th arrow was an 8, but the 5th shot totally got away, string hand and bow arm all over the place and the arrow missed!! He recovered and shot a 9 on the last one, but the match was certainly lost. In fact he shot a 45 and Bastien shot a 48 so he only lost by 4 points even with the miss. This was a match that Rob should have won and he was very disappointed with himself.
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Dave's match was a against Willy Ardiet also from France. On the first end Dave shot an excellent 55 while Willy shot a 52 giving Dave a 3 point lead. In the second end, Dave's group moved to the left and even though he moved his sight, it just stayed on the left, producing a score of 51. Meanwhile Willy popped in a 55 taking the lead by 1 point. Dave's last end wasn't good - he had an 8, 7, 7 again on the left but Willy was also feeling the pressure shooting several 7's as well. There were a couple of questionable arrows on both targets and all three judges were called to make a judgement on all of them, which took several minutes. Finally the scores were posted, Dave had a 49 and Willy a 48 leaving the match tied. When a match is tied, the archers each shoot one arrow and the highest score wins. If it's still tied, they shoot a second arrow, again for score. If it's tied again, then they shoot a third arrow, this time the arrow closest to the
middle wins the match.
Dave and Willy stepped to the line. Dave shot first and sank a 10 right on the X in the middle of the target. The Frenchman shot a second later and also shot a ten. So, still tied. They stepped to the line again and came up to full draw together. Willy released first shooting another 10. Dave shot almost immediately but shot an 8 at 12 o'clock, so the Frenchman won the match.
So we were out of the competition. Dave was really annoyed with himself. He felt he should have won the match on the last end. We watched the next set of matches and when the semi-finals started the competitors moved over to the finals area where there were stands and both Rob and Dave shot some more. Both of them needed the arrows especially after the windy day on Saturday to recover their technique.
Now we leave for Denmark. After the closing ceremonies we had a good game with the frisbee with several pretty girls and then it was time to go to our train. It took Rob and Dave about 15 minutes to fall asleep - Dave finally gave up trying to get comfortable in the seats and just lay down on the floor under the seats and slept all the way to Paris.
Tuesday, August 1
We got up about 8 to the sound of pouring rain. So no shooting this morning. We did a big load of laundry instead. In the afternoon, the rain stopped and we went out to shoot. It was a little breezy and cool but quite nice.
Wednesday, August 2
We awoke this morning to the sound of pouring rain - again. But after breakfast and doing email, it stopped and we headed out for Official practise. The shooting line of 45 butts was pretty full. Rob and Dave continued the work that was started the day before and both are shooting well. They both passed through equipment inspection with no difficulties. After lunch it started to rain again, so we did our email and gabbed with other archers. It cleared later in the afternoon and we were able to get about six more ends in before it rained again and the field was closed. We got a new list of competitors which showed that there are 31 countries present, 73 men recurve, 61 ladies recurve, 28 men compound and 16 ladies compound. For the team round there are 17 men recurve and 13 ladies recurve teams, 5 men and 4 ladies compound teams. Tomorrow we will shoot a double 70 meter round - the same round that is shot in the Olympics.
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Subject: Day 11 - Olympic Training Tour - Europe 2000
Practice arrows started at 1:45 pm. The wind was strong and blowing from right to left across the field. It was strong, but not as bad as it was last weekend in France, but it would probably be factor in the results. Practice was spent trying to figure out how much to move the sight and where to aim. Both Rob and Dave moved their sights and then settled on a place to aim off.
At the end of the first 36 arrows at 70 meters (remember - this is an Olympic round, not a FITA) Dave shot 316 and was in 23rd place. Rob shot 311 and was is 41st place. This was an excellent result for Dave, a little low for Rob, but not that bad.
There was a 10 minute break and then the second 36 arrows at 70 meters began. Both Rob and Dave started strongly and were shooting better. While the archers were scoring their 3rd end the wind did an abrupt change moving around so that it was blowing directly from behind and also became much stronger. The 4th end was interested as archers adjusted to the new conditions. We discussed this wind change before Rob and Dave started to shoot the 4th end and they were prepared. Their groups were a little to the right, but still in the gold. Scanning the rest of the targets with my binoculars, I was pretty sure we had picked up points and managed this change better than many of the others.
Dave's second round totaled 326 while Rob shot a 316. Dave's total was 642 and Rob's was 627. We had to wait for about 20 minutes before the final results were posted. Dave had moved up to 10th place - an outstanding result given the very high quality of this field - almost everyone was going to the Olympics. Rob also moved up into 31st place, an excellent improvement.
There are some pretty impressive people lower than 31st - like Martinus Grov of Norway in 35th, Lionel Torres of France in 38th, Matteo Bisiani of Italy in 43rd, Sebastien Flute of France in 51st, and Badenov of Russia in 64th !! All these archers are ranked in the top 10 in the world. So I guess Dave and Rob did very well!!
Tomorrow match play will start for the recurve archers at 9 am. Dave's first match is against Keith Hanlon of Ireland. We know Keith well and it is surprising to find him in 55th place. So Dave will have to be in good form to defeat him tomorrow. Rob's match is against Henk Vogels of the Netherlands who finished the ranking round in 34th place. We don't know this archer at all.
The top recurve ladies who shot in both wind and rain only shot a few points less than the men. The top 3 ladies are all Korean. The scores are 665, 655 and 644.
The top score from the compound ladies was 658 by Irma Luyting of the Netherlands, followed by Katy Moir 642 from Great Britain and Louise Hauge from Denmark at 638.
The compound men shot extremely well. First was Michael Peart of Great Britain with 692, then Morgan Lundin of Sweden at 689 and Dejan Sitar of Slovenia at 682. Scary scores!!
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If you would like to see the complete results, check out the web site at www.danish-grandprix.dk.
Subject: Day 12 - Olympic Training Tour - Europe 2000
Match play today.
Again the day started at 6:30 am with sunny skies but by 8:15 when we were on the field, it had clouded over. Actually, this was good since the field faces east, so the sun won't be a factor. The wind was from behind but shifting both to the left and right, but wasn't that strong. Archers would have to pay attention to it, but it probably won't blow bow arms and we expect that the scores will be high.
Whew - two guys through to the second round of a major international event. Now that feels good !! My heart rate was about 140 during the last end and I had a hard time holding the binoculars still to see where the arrows went.
There was a short wait while target assignments were re-organized and the second round started. Rob's match was against Ilario DiBuo, a member of the very strong Italian team who finished second in the ranking round. Rob's total was 163 and DiBuo had a 165, so Rob was out, but with a pretty good score which will help his final placing.
Dave's second match was against Victor Kurchenko of the Ukraine. We don't know him but he was 23rd in the ranking round, so it will be a tough match. They both opened with really good ends shooting 55's each. Match tied. On the second end it looked to me like a pair of 53's and that's what they both had. Match still tied. On the last end both their groups spread out a bit and they again shot equal scores, 52 points each. So the match was a dead heat with each archer shooting 160. The tie breaking procedure is for each archer to shoot an arrow and the person with the highest score wins. If it's still tied, then they repeat with another arrow for the best score. If it's still tied, then they shoot a third arrow and the closest to the middle wins.
They both came to full draw at the same time and released almost simultaneously. Dave shot a beautiful arrow but it was perhaps a bit strong - it was an 8 about a quarter of an inch out of the 9 at 12 o'clock. The Ukrainian first a 10, dead centre.
Both Rob and Dave were disappointed to have lost. Dave shot this tournament exceptionally well. After his result in Riom last week, we made some changes to his technique and he totally committed himself to the changes and the results here sure showed it. His shots were much more consistent and easier to execute and he was able to maintain his technique under pressure as well.
Rob shot two good matches with decent scores, one of which was equal to the Canadian Olympic Association's qualifying standard. He was also able to maintain his technique throughout the match play not letting any arrows get away from him. I was really pleased with both of them. Next week we will be traveling to the Canadian Championships in Boucherville, Quebec and hope to have a chance to meet you all there.
Rob and I will leave for the Olympics on August 30th and travel to Brisbane, Australia and then drive south to Lismore where we will stay at Southern Cross University and practise at the Great Eastland Archery Club. On September 7th/8th we will drive to Sydney, dump the car and enter the Olympic Village. The opening ceremonies are on September 15th and the ranking round for archery is on September 16th. Rob's parents, his sister and brother-in-law as well as my father and Gary Gillies will be in the audience to cheer him on. I will send you all a fax number so that you can encourage him from Canada too. It does make a difference.
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4. Un echange (uniquement en francais) de Pascal Colmaire:
Lors des championnats du monde des juniors, Mr. Christophe HAUTBOIS m'a fait part d'une proposition d'échange entre son club et un club québécois, ou un club canadien d'expression francophone. Son club se trouve à St-Jacques de la Lande dans le département d'Ile et Vilaine (Bretagne), et pratique le tir sur cible et le tir animalier dont le 3D.
Si un club est intéressé, il peut contacter Christophe au: 18 route de Fougères 35510 Cesson-Sévigné France Tél.: (33) 2 99 36 51 88
Je vous laisse le soin de faire circuler cette proposition.
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5. Championnats Canadiens/National Target & Field Championships
Congratulations to Ghislain Arsenault who has accepted to chair the Judge Commission at the Nationals to be held in Boucherville. Remember, the nationals run from August 13-20 and so the national office will be closed. I hope to see you there!
Felicitations a Ghislain Arsenault, president du comite des juges en Boucherville. N'oubliez pas que les championnats auront lieu du 13 a 20 aout. Donc, le bureau national sera ferme.
6. Paralympic Games/Jeux paralympiques
There will be 4000 athletes from 127 countries. Good luck to Alec and Norbert in October.
Il y sera 4000 athletes de 127 pays. Bonne Chance aux Alec et Norbert en octobre.
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Enfin/In Closing
I coached at the NAA Nationals last week in Canton Michigan. There were some phemonenal scores shot Butch Johnson (recurve) shot 329 at 90m on his second round. Dave Cousins (compound) shot 1405 on his first round, and 17-year old Karen Scavotto (recurve) shot about a 1342 average for her two rounds. Though I couldn't stay to see the US Open, I heard the scores were pretty good. It would be nice if we could get rid of the mud, but other than that, the tournament was very good. Results:
Please note that the office will be closed until August 23rd at 8:00 EDT.
J'ai entraine quelques archers aux championnats americains a Canton, Michigan la semaine passe. Quelques scores ont ete incroyable: Butch Johnson (recourbe) a tire 329 a 90m, le deuxieme ronde; Dave Cousins (arc a poulie) a tire 1405 le premier ronde; and Karen Scavotto (elle a seulement 17 ans, recourbe) a tire une moyenne de 1342! Il faut que je suis retourne a Aylmer, PQ tout de suite et je n'ai pas vu les rondes eliminatoires, mais
les scores ont ete encore hauts. Pour plus amples informations et scores contactez:
Veuillez noter que notre bureau sera ferme jusqu'au 23 aout a 08h00 HdL.
See you next week! A la prochaine!
Kathy Millar
FCA General Manager/Gerante Generale de la FCA
780 Belfast Road, Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z5