Still great satisfactions for the Umbrian archers, also protagonists at an international level. The Gualdese Roberto Carosatilast week he achieved a great goal at the World Country Championships a The Doe (Canada).
A bronze that honors and gives importance to Umbria. In the “Compound” category Carosati started well immediately, finishing eleventh in the first qualifications with 414 points on shots with unknown distances and a very short ranking. On the second day of qualifications with known distances, the Umbrian archer improved his score further, reaching eighth place with 826 points and thus qualifying for the direct elimination matches.
In the first round of direct clashes the archer Bodyworkgot the better of the Swede Benschold, beaten 104-101. Then in the quarter-finals, the Gualdese eliminated the Austrian Wiener 106-103, while the semi-final against the German Stadler was heart-pounding. After an exciting head-to-head, it only ended in a play-off, with the German winning by a matter of millimetres, given that his arrow was slightly closer to the center than Carosati’s.
Carosati gets the better of Luepkemann and takes the bronze
The Umbrian archer, however, made up for it in the final for third place (bronze), beating another German, this time Luepkemann, 65-60 in a comeback, thus achieving a magnificent result, bringing Italy to the podium and also “avenging” Marco Bruno, who was eliminated in the first round by the Teutonic player.
Archery, Italy at the top with 8 golds and 17 podiums
The World Country Archery Championships were a real success for Italy. The Italian national team has confirmed itself as the strongest on the planet in this specialty (not Olympic, but present in the World Games programme) as demonstrated by the excellent results achieved in the world championship event in Lac La Biche, Canada.
Here is the report of the results: 8 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze are the spoils of the Italian expedition, which preceded the United States (5-5-6) and Sweden (2 gold and 1 silver) in the medal table of the event, also scoring the highest number of overall podiums (17, one more than the USA) among all divisions and age classes competing in the 2024 World Championships in the countryside sector.
Archery: the story
The origin of this discipline is lost in the mists of time: the bow accompanied the evolution of man at least as much as the wheel and the oar did.
Historically this tool dates back to approximately 50,000 years ago. In all the most ancient civilizations, from Egyptian to Chinese, from Greek to Roman, the bow and arrow had a well-defined role for both war and hunting.
Archery had its fullest development in the 1920s, so much so that it led to the establishment, on the idea of a Polish management group, of the International Federation (FITA) which saw the light in Brussels in 1931 with the membership of eight countries. .
Archery, however, had already received recognition from Baron de Coubertin who had included it in the program of the Olympic Games of 1900 in Paris, 1904 in St. Louis, 1908 in London and 1920 in Antwerp. Curiously, once established, the International Federation was no longer able to have the discipline included in the Olympic program until its return in 1972 in Monaco (4 years earlier it had been a demonstration sport at the Mexican Games).
After the establishment of FITA and the new competition regulations, archers find themselves in the need of having to hit a target at 90 meters: this is in fact the distance with which the competition begins, and therefore of adapting the power of their bows to throw the arrows to that target. Archery then, from being fun, a garden or a test of skill, becomes a real sport and forces its practitioners to raise their muscle tone with appropriate exercises and to train with method and technique.
