The French men’s archery team qualified for the Olympic Games (July 23-August 8) this Saturday, at the end of the suspense. Thomas Chirault, Pierre Plihon and Jean-Charles Valladont took third place in the Paris TQO, played at the Charléty stadium, the last qualifying place for the Games, by beating Ukraine (6-0). As in 2016 in Rio, the three Frenchmen will also compete in the individual event. The United States and Indonesia also qualified.
Fourth in qualifying, the French then beat Belarus in the round of 16 (5-1), then Mexico, surprising winner of Russia, in the quarters (5-3). Before stumbling in the semi-final on the United States, led by the reigning world champion Brady Ellison, authors of ten 10s on the last 12 arrows (0-6: 51-57, 56-58, 54-59) .
They then had to wait nearly an hour and a half, the time for the deluge that hit the Charléty stadium to subside, to play their place at the Olympics against Ukraine. An almost perfect first set, with 59 points scored out of 60 possible (52 for Ukraine), the Blues have mastered the following two (53-52 and 55-51).
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