The French division 1 team championship begins this Saturday April 13 and Sunday April 14 in Riom (Puy-de-Dôme). Champions of France and vice-champions of France, Nîmes and Nîmoises have ambitions. But they will have to deal with the constraints of the Olympic preparation of their three star archers.
Champion of France for boys, vice-champion of France for girls. The Arc club of Nîmes has monopolized the podiums of the French team championships in 2023. It is preparing to attack domestic competitions again in a context marked this year by the Olympic Games on which all eyes are focused.
And for good reason, for the big global meeting, Jean-Charles Valladont, Baptiste Addis and Victoria Sébastian are serious candidates for selection. After a selection competition in Turkey, they are more than ever well placed but their availability to their club will depend on the decisions taken by the Korean coach of the France team.
Valladont at rest
“It’s a special French championship. We will be dependent on the decisions, but it is not every year that we hold the Games and that we are lucky to have three archers who can participate in them,” readily admits Olivier Grillat, the Nîmes sports director. . And this will inevitably make the task of its two teams difficult in this 2024 edition of the French championships.
Moreover, for the opening, among the boys, Nîmes will be deprived of Jean-Charles Valladont, left to rest. But he will be able to count on the young Baptiste Addis, his other selectable, as well as on Iban Bariteaud, Franck Eyeni and Thomas Aubert. This weekend, the Nîmes will be opposed to Beuvardes, Nanteuil-le-Haudouin, Annemasse, Draveil, Mouan-Sartoux, Brienon and Riom, the regional of the stage, candidate for the title.
Twenty-two victories necessary to be in the last four
Victoria Sébastian will lead the women’s team also made up of Maïa Tincu, Erika Jangnas and Anaelle Florent. The Nîmes, coached by Lionel Allasio, will face Agen-Boé, Marseille, Belfort, Annemasse, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Arcy-sur-Aube, the reigning French champion, and Tours/Saint-Avertin.
The second day of this championship will take place near Poitiers, on May 3 and 4, and the third and last, on June 7 and 8, in the suburbs of Agen. This final day will see the top four in the men’s and women’s rankings compete in the semi-finals and the final. “During the three days, we will play a total of thirty matches, we must win at least twenty-two to hope to be in the final four,” concludes Olivier Grillat.
F. P.
2024-04-12 12:40:07
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