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Lisa Barbelin (Archers Riomois) crowned European archery champion

The dream week ended in apotheosis for Lisa Barbelin. The 21-year-old archer, licensed at the Archers Riomois, easily won in the final of the European Recurve Archery Championships this Sunday in Antalya (Turkey). Once again remarkable precision, she dominated Belarusian Karyna Dziominskaya, with a clear score of 6-0 (28-27, 28-25, 28-27). Never worried about her opponent of the day, she chained the right arrows to afford a prestigious title. The Frenchwoman ends on a high note the Turkish stage of her season.

“I think I’ve dreamed of this title for a long time, I was pretty confident today. “

Lisa Barbelin (European archery champion)

Lisa Barbelin presented herself confident and relaxed for this final. “I think I’ve dreamed of this title for a long time, I was pretty confident today. “ she declared on the site of the French Archery Federation. “I went there, relaxed, to have fun and it turns out that it’s by doing this that it works well. “ she concluded.

Lisa Barbelin (Archers Riomois) won her ticket for the Tokyo Olympics

The Frenchwoman has been able to rely on successful performances in recent days. Everything had started perfectly on Thursday with the start of the European Championships. She won her first two games by the same score as in the final: 6-0. The rest was a little more complicated, but it remained solid, especially when it came to winning against the leader of the qualifications, the Russian Elena Osipova in the quarter-finals (6-4). She did not tremble this Sunday in the final.

This is the first time that a Frenchwoman has become a European archery champion since Bérengère Schuh in 2008 in Vittel, an eternity.

A chance for a medal at the Olympic Games this summer

Earlier in the week, Lisa Barbelin clinched her quota for the Tokyo Olympic Games (July 23 – August 8) by winning the qualifying tournament organized during these European Championships. All she had to do was reach the semi-finals to win her Olympic ticket, but the Frenchwoman did better by going to beat Turkey’s Yasemin Anagoz (6-2) in the final. A non-nominative ticket, but which will obviously go to the licensee of the Riom club. A week crowned with gold, which portends a chance for an Olympic medal this summer.

Before flying to Japan, the new European champion will go to the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Paris on June 20 with the aim of securing a new quota, by team this time. Then there will be the World Cup, which will take place at the Charléty Stadium in Paris from June 22 to 27.

Jason Cotard

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