Overcoming the performance of the preceding edition is the goal that the Cuban Hugo Franco has been drawn for the World Arch Shooting Championship, which from this Friday until day 15 will host the city of Gwangju, in South Korea.
Two years ago in Berlin, the Pinarño first agreed to the second round of the eliminatory matches in the Recurvo modality and was among the best 48 of the contest, although before he had also marked unpublished records.
Being in the 19th place of the double round to 70 meters with a note of 661 points is something that marked the career of the current National Team captain.
“I have made a very good preparation and I am able to improve that performance,” said Hugo, who will travel to the South Korean city with his coach Reiter Téllez.
«The greatest emphasis in recent weeks was in technical work. That guarantees you that under the pressure of the competition you have resources to face any difficulty, visualizing the basis of what you did in training, ”he commented just hours after leaving for the headquarters where the Congress of the International Federation already meets.
Hugo will be involved in his fourth appointment of this type and will do so on this occasion with the experience of the Olympic Games of Paris 2024 still latent.
“It is a pity that I arrive without knowing me a lot, because in the classification tournament for the Central Americans there is elite level with Mexicans and Colombians, but it is not the same if I could have been in a World Cup,” he confessed, however he is convinced that he will know how to overcome any difficulty and offer the best possible show.
The same criterion shared Reiter, who also confirmed that the last 12 weeks of work have been very intense, with high load volumes and the result has come out as expected in each of the evaluation controls.
«We have made an excellent preparation, for more than two or three years the parameters were not completed like this time. We review and organize well every detail of the training program, emphasizing technical details that were giving us difficulties, ”he explained.
About that last issue commented that the coupling of the rope to the face to make the shot has been the center of many of the days, in which it also sought to dominate the adaptation to the wind from different positions and the shooting time.
Both know that they will also have another factor to adapt once at the headquarters – and it is the most difficult because they can only do it there – which is the difference of 13 hours compared to Cuba.
“From here we model some variants, but that will always be a factor against for the first days,” Reiter said.
With the insured classification for the Central American and Caribbean Games of 2026, Hugo and Reiter will face the World Cup just without the pressure of a specific result.
Doing it well, getting high scores, perhaps until you break your own national record in the ordering round (677 points) and then advance as much as possible in matches are attainable goals.
Hugo now arrives with the antecedent of a 21st position in the double 70 of Paris 2024, with a note of 669 points. Then in the tie he won a game and gave in the second against Chinese Yan Wang, to end in place 17.
