Lisa Barbelin during the test event of the Paris Games, organized on the Esplanade des Invalides, August 20, 2023. CHRISTIAN HARTMANN / REUTERS
“It’s indescribable, what I feel. » Lisa Barbelin, by her own admission, has difficulty “to hold back tears”. Sunday August 20, the French archer took second place in the test event of the Paris Games. Crowned vice-world champion in teams at the beginning of the month in Berlin, she ended up losing (6-4) against the American Casey Kaufhold, world number 7.
If the 23-year-old young woman scored her best result in a World Cup stage, she especially had a glimpse of the joys of a podium on the Esplanade des Invalides, the very place where the tournament will be held in less than a year , the archery events of the 2024 Olympics.
“I kept looking at the flag being raised during the anthemsays the 23-year-old Mosellane, European champion in 2021, then indoor in 2022. I pinched myself to say to myself “hold this feeling so that next time you are at the top”. »
“It’s one of the toughest World Cup stages we’ve seen, because it comes a week after the World Championship and we’re on the Games site, so everyone absolutely wanted to come. to see him. It’s a real meaningful medal”reacted the national technical director, Benoit Binon.
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“I had a big click”
Since Friday, the Frenchwoman has broken her glass ceiling, bringing down several competitors from Asian countries, a first. Because the Asian continent dominates the recurve bow, to the point that the French Archery Federation poached, in February 2022, the South Korean coach Oh Seon-tek, at the head of the team of the peninsula in Sydney 2000 (5 medals) and London 2012 (4 medals).
“I had a big clickexplains Lisa Barbelin. I had never beaten an Asian until now. And there, on Friday, I beat the Chinese Zhang Mengyao in a shoot-off then the South Korean Kang Chae-young, who is still an archery monument [championne olympique par équipes à Tokyo]. »
As Jean-Michel Cléroy, the president of the French federation, points out: “Archery is psychological. At some point you have to beat them. » A good omen, 349 days before the women’s final of the 2024 Olympics.
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