SANIFAA TEAM

WORLD BOW-HUNTER CHAMPIONSHIPS 2007.

by JP de Villiers SANIFAA President.

This year, SANIFAA selected an excellent team to represent our association and our country at what would be one of the toughest Bow-Hunter Championships in a long time. The event this year was held in Europe, in Switzerland to be more precise, and as always, the European events are strongly contested. Because it is so expense to travel to the different world events, many of the European archers participate only in Europe and therefore when a significant event is held there, the best come from all directions to compete. Events can become so big and cumbersome to run that a cut-off may be required for the number of participants. This was the case in Switzerland for the WBHC and the entries closed late in 2006.

The WBHC was held in the first week of July 2007.

Our SA team consisted of D.P.Bierman, Frans Delport, Benito van Leeuwen, Roberto van Leeuwen, Jaco Wessels, Johan Wessels, Jacques Angelo, Werdie van Staden and Walter Dreyer. I further detailed report on the tour will be published later, but here are the main results.

JMBU : In the Junior Men Bowhunter Unlimited style, Southern Africa took all the medals with Werdie van Staden being the new World Champion JMBU

AMLB : In the Male Long Bow style there was 148 archers ! and Jaco Wessels achieved a remarkable 31 st position.

AMFU : In the Unlimited Freestyle with 84 competitors Benito van Leeuwen finished 6^th followed by Roberto van Leeuwen in 8^th place

AMBU : In the Bow-Hunter Unlimited with 49 competitors, DP Bierman finished 2^nd and Walter Dreyer finished 3^rd, with Frans Delport in 11^th position.

JMLB : In the Juniors Logbow, Johan Wessel finished 2^nd.

JMBU	1	van Staden Werdie	SANIFAA	484	471	554	556	2065
	2	Angelo Jacques	SANIFAA	502	473	536	544	2055
	3	Marais Francious	Namibia	484	471	554	542	2051
AMLB	1	Bökesch Horst	DFBV	296	272	362	444	1374
	2	Seiwald Walter	ÖBSV	264	271	332	476	1343
	3	Bucci Paolo	FIARC	252	294	320	462	1328
	31	Wessels Jaco	SANIFAA	226	223	246	392	1087
AMFU	1	Szedlár János	HAA	516	499	550	544	2109
	2	Flühmann Hans	FAAS	500	496	546	540	2082
	3	Weston Tony	EFAA	474	501	554	546	2075
	6	van Leeuwen Benito	SANIFAA	488	476	544	554	2062
	8	van Leeuwen Roberto	SANIFAA	486	476	548	540	2050
AMBU	1	Matteucci Antonio	FIARC	524	499	548	552	2123
	2	Bierman D.P.	SANIFAA	516	471	552	530	2069
	3	Dreyer Walter	SANIFAA	474	461	544	550	2029
	11	Delport Frans	SANIFAA	448	456	542	540	1986
JMLB	1	Bortolin Daniele	FIARC	230	258	330	350	1168
	2	Wessels Johan	SANIFAA	226	242	308	384	1160
	3	Niethammer Willi	DFBV	272	183	288	294	1037

Congratulations on the exellent performance of the team and particularly to The World Champion JMBU Werdie van Staden.

In total the team brought home 1 Gold, 3 Silver and 1 Bronze medal. That’s 5 medals for a team of 9 Fantastic ! Well done to the Team Captain Benito van Leeuwen for the great team results.

Remember next year it’s the World Field Championships (Africa Region) which will be held in Namibia. Here is the rest of the calendar for this year, so get out there and shoot those qualifying scores to get into the next SANIFAA World Team !

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