Archery WA World Championships 2023

[Josh 10,495]

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

Unruh must be sitting at home crying right now. Can't believe that Peters made the final, Unruh had a huge chance this week. Overall crazy results. Gazoz was the only "expected" individual medalist. Valencia (and maybe D'Almeida) winning a medal wasn't really shocking either, but apart from that the results were very unexpected and probably won't be repeated next year.

Peters wasn't expected to make the podium, but the result wasn't totally unexpected (He was 5th at the WC in Medellin) and IMO his world ranking (#31) is not reflective of his current level. Archery is a very unpredictable sport, anyone can beat anyone. 

[AsensioWillemsen 158]

12 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Unruh must be sitting at home crying right now. Can't believe that Peters made the final, Unruh had a huge chance this week. Overall crazy results. Gazoz was the only "expected" individual medalist. Valencia (and maybe D'Almeida) winning a medal wasn't really shocking either, but apart from that the results were very unexpected and probably won't be repeated next year.

That's archery for you kinda, although this tournament has been pretty crazy even for archery standards.

[vinipereira 3,240]

D'Almeida 

[OlympicsFan 858]

4 out of the 8 individual semifinalists are from the Americas, 2 from Europe (if you include Gazoz) and 2 from Asia. Europe might win both golds despite only having 2 out of the 8 individual semifinalists. Always interesting to see the difference between archery and shooting. India (so far), China, the US, Hungary and Norway are doing much better in shooting than in archery. The Netherlands for example is almost nonexistant in shooting. Japan and Mexico also seem to be doing much better in archery.

 

Also interesting: I just looked at the shooting medal from the last olympics and i was shocked to see that India didn't win a single medal while South Korea only won 1 medal.  won twice as many medals as , ,  and  combined ...

Combined number of medals of , , , ,  and : 3

Combined number of medals of  and : 4

Edited August 6, 2023 by OlympicsFan

[Josh 10,495]

 Gazoz 4-2 over  Peters after three sets

[Griff88 1,952]

Well long wait for Indonesian WC medal is still ongoing, anyways happy for securing our first quota

[vinipereira 3,240]

Canadian coach is so positive 

[OlympicsFan 858]

10 minutes ago, AsensioWillemsen said:

That's archery for you kinda, although this tournament has been pretty crazy even for archery standards.

Interesting that it seems to be more unpredictable than shooting. I guess if archery would have more rounds it would also be more predictable. More shots = Less unexpected outcome.

[Josh 10,495]

Peters with a perfect score, and levels up the match at 4-4!

[hoversaBR 441]

22 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Unruh must be sitting at home crying right now. Can't believe that Peters made the final, Unruh had a huge chance this week. Overall crazy results. Gazoz was the only "expected" individual medalist. Valencia (and maybe D'Almeida) winning a medal wasn't really shocking either, but apart from that the results were very unexpected and probably won't be repeated next year.

 Marcus was the current silver medalist, leader of the world ranking and had won a stage of the World Cup that year. For me, he is among the medalists was fully "expected".