French archer Baptiste Addis, 17, stopped in the quarter-finals at the Paris Olympics. He hopes to fight for a medal in Los Angeles in 2028.
Beaten in the quarter-finals by the German Florian Unruh, Baptiste Addis leaves the Paris Olympic Games at just 17 years old with a team silver medal, and full of promise for the future, a leading figure in shooting French arch shaped. The youngest male member of the French team for the 2024 Olympics at 17 years and 232 days old during the opening ceremony, Baptiste Addis reached the quarter-finals of the individual event on Sunday.
He finally gave in to the German Florian Unruh 6 to 5 with golden arrow (10 each, but Unruh was closer to the center), after leading 4-2 then 5-3. The German lost for bronze against the South Korean Lee Woo-seok, while the title went to the South Korean Kim Woo-jin, winner with the golden arrow of the American Brady Ellison.
“There is a little dissatisfaction, because it is a match that I could have taken. It’s small errors, it’s a bit of all that. The goal was to have fun. There were quite a few arrows where I had fun, where I enjoyed it”appreciated Addis. The Gardois, native of Manduel, takes a date for the future, he who only arrived in the senior French team in the summer of 2022 and who has only spent two full seasons at the highest level.
