Continuation of the second stage of the Hyundai World Cup in Yecheon, South Korea, and a mixed recurve team which impresses with the Barbelin-Addis pair.
The duo will play for the bronze medal on Sunday.
Lisa Barbelin and Baptiste Addis will go for a bronze medal for France. This Friday in the mixed team events, the blue pair initially left no chance to the Kazakhstan duo composed of Alina Ilyassova and Dauletkeldi Zhangbyrbay. Easy success despite their hesitant first end, with a final score of 6 points to 2. In the round of 16, the duo once again proved intractable by taking out the Italian pair composed of Tatiana Andreoli and Matteo Bordani: another clear victory in 3 sets, 5 points to 1. And what about the XXL performance during the quarter-finals against one of the favorites, South Korea, crowned with gold in this discipline at the Tokyo Olympic Games and at the World Championships? World. The French won against LIM Sihyeon and KIM Woojin, a resounding victory 6 points to 2. In the semi-final, it came down to the wire, with a cruel defeat against Japan 5 points to 4. Both teams alternated set points until the jump-off, where the Japanese Ruka Uehara and Junya Nakanishi left no room for error with a perfect score of 20 points, compared to 19 from the French.
Our blues will therefore return on Sunday to win a bronze medal. They will meet the Spanish duo of Elia Canales and Andres Temiño Mediel, eliminated by Mexico in the semi-final 5 points to 4. The match for the gold medal will pit Japan against Mexico.
For Benoit Binon, the National Technical Director : “The French team, after an excellent run, can still get a bronze medal on Sunday. I remember several things from this morning. First, the consistent level of the team all morning which did not rely on opposing errors to advance, but on its own level. They work hard to achieve this consistency. Obviously, we cannot ignore the victory against Korea, the Olympic champion nation. It was not a goal today, but it continues to show that the French team in general can be uninhibited in Paris. They still have a difficult match against a strong Spanish team, here again the objective will be to stay on track to continue building confidence.”
Addis et Valladont in finale quarts
On the individual courses, the archers achieved great performances, notably for Baptiste Addis and Jean-Charles Valladont. The first, after having drawn the mixed doubles in the morning, enters the first round with a clear success 6 points to 0 against the representative of Malaysia Muhammad Syafiq Busthamin. He then met the Dutchman Steeve Wijler, whom he defeated 6 points to 5 following a close match and a shootout in favor of the Frenchman. In the eighth, a match with many shared sets for Baptiste Addis who finally won his match against the Uzbek Amirkhon Sadikov, 7 points to 3. In the quarters against the Korean LEE Wooseok, Baptiste Addis was initially behind but came back to score to get the barrage. His 9 is unfortunately not enough against the Korean’s 10, and Addis is stopped at the gates of the final square.
A journey which progresses to the quarter-finals for Jean-Charles Valladont as well. He first showed himself solid against the Chinese Xiangshuo Qi with a success 6 set points to 2. In the sixteenth, he met Zih-Siang Lin (China from Taipei) whom he defeated in four sets, 6 to 2. The table of matches being cruel, he then had to face his teammate Thomas Chirault in the eighth, defeating the Iranian Faez Mohammadizardkhaneh 6-2, then author of a high-flying match against the number 1 world Marcus D’Almeida, whom he eliminated in the round of 16 with a score of 6 to 2. The Franco-French meeting in the round of 16 turned to the advantage of the experienced Jean-Charles Valladont, who eliminated Thomas Chirault in four ends , 6 to 2. He will then be stopped by the Vietnamese Quoc Phong 6 points to 4 in the quarter-finals following a very contested match. Nicolas Bernardi loses in the round of 16 against the German Florian Unruh then defeated the Spaniard Andres Temiño Mediel then the Turk Berkim Tumer.
Among the girls, the first round was unsuccessful for Amélie Cordeau, Caroline Lopez and Victoria Sebastian, who lost respectively to Rezza Octavia (INA), Jingyi Zhu (CHN) and Satsuki Noda (JPN). Lisa Barbelin for her part first won in the 32nd round against the German Charline Schwarz, then in the 16th round against the Canadian Stéphanie Barret 7 points to 1. She lost in the round of 16 against the Indian Deepika Kumari, 6 points to 0.
PROGRAMME :
Recurve mixed team bronze final, Sunday May 26 at 11:18 a.m. local time (4:18 a.m. French time).
Lisa Barbelin & Baptiste Addis (FRA) VS Elia Canales & Andres Temiño Mediel (ESP)
The bronze medal match will be watched live on archery+ and ianseo.net.
2024-05-24 13:46:31
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