Cupido did not fulfill the purpose of the Benaventano archers displaced this weekend to the dispute of the Spanish Indoor Archery Championship held in the Ciudad Real town of Valdepeñas in which 319 archers gathered at the Esteban López Fair Pavilion representing to the different Spanish autonomous communities.
Traditional, longbow and naked bow were the modalities to be competed on the court of the Valdepeñera facilities and where the Castilla y León team arrived at this national team with 16 athletes, of which five were women, in a championship marked by the record of female participation reaching 104 registered.
Benavente archers had, in the arrows of Sara Herrero and Bernardo Martínez, all the hopes of getting a medal, even knowing that the competition was going to be highly disputed. Along with them the Valladolid Archers with Alfonso de Anta and Santiago Rico, Avila Archers with Luis Caídas, José Antonio Crespo, Saturnino González, Francisco Pedro Herrero and Gemma Sánchez, Royal Arch Archers with Ricardo García, Gaia Archers with Francisco Lobete, Nava Archers with Ángel Maroto and Rosa María Berjano, CD Arcomiróbriga José Francisco Prieto and Tightrope Club with Ámparo Guardiola and Rosa Hernández adding a total of two medals of which one was gold, that of Rosa Hernández in the longbow modality and another silver that the Cuerda Foja archer herself added together with José Francisco Prieto from Arcomiróbriga in the longbow modality. mixed teams.
The truth is that it was expected that the Castilian Leonese would be able to add some bad metal, but the competition was really tough and the slightest mistake was paid for by being left out of the qualifying rounds. Something of that happened, in traditional bow, to the recently proclaimed Champion of Castilla y León and one of the best Spanish bows Francisco Pedro Herrero who could not make the cut by a single point after an unlucky second round that made him stay out . Francisco Pedro closed with 540 points (273-267). He was out by five points. Benaventano goalkeeper Bernardo Martínez in the qualifying round with a lower background than is usually the case, especially the first 30 arrows where he closed with 263 points and although in the second of the throws he improved a lot with a score of 273, which if it had been more regular In the first one he would have been among the 32 best. Only Saturnino González from Ávila managed to sneak into the knockout phase, and he would fall a little later in the round of 32 against the representative of Castilla la Mancha José Claudio Ruiz 6-5. The Catalan Víctor López, who remained the best throughout the championship, finally took the gold, the silver would go to Antonio Villalobos and the bronze to Manuel Rodríguez, both from the Andalusian community.
There was not much luck in the traditional women’s category where the regional representation focused on the Avila native Gemma Sánchez and the benaventana Sara Herrero. The day was not very good for them either and only the regional champion made it to the playoffs as fifteenth classified with 523 points (261-262). Sara Herrero She would also fall in the next round against the Galician María del Carmen Fernández 6-2. Gemma closed with 470 points (242-228). The Canarian Yanira Pérez revalidated the title ahead of the Andalusian Clara Verdier and the Valencian Begoña Blanco.
The archer of Benavente Archers He had a new possibility of a medal in mixed teams where he shared arrows with Saturnino González from Avila, facing the Asturian team with whom they fell in the tiebreaker arrow. Valencia, Castilla La Mancha and Catalonia distributed the medals in that order.
Of the rest of the representatives of Castilla y León, in addition to the medals won by Rosa Hernández and José Francisco Prieto, highlighting the performance of Luis Caídas of the Avila Archers who reached the round of 16 in a naked arc, falling to the Galician Santiago González 7-1. Also that of Ricardo García (Arco Real) who reached the quarterfinals in the same category, losing to the Catalan Josep Pla by 6-5.
2024-02-01 10:29:09
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