The post-Olympic year of Lisa Barbelin is definitely complicated. The Mosellane, bronze medalist at the Paris Games in 2024, was eliminated in the thirty-second final of the individual event of the world championships, in a classic arc, this Thursday in Gwangju (South Korea).
The Archère from Ley, in the Saulnois, who had finished in 44th position of the qualifications on Tuesday, started his career in the main draw with a victory at the expense of the Kazakhstanaise Alexandra Zemlyanova (6-0). But in the next round, the 25-year-old Lorraine was beaten by the Ukrainian Veronika Marchenko, European-induced European champion in 2017. The Tricolor International bowed 7-1.
After the defeat in the round of 16 of the team test, it is a new underperformance for Lisa Barbelin, already in difficulty this season in the World Cup where she was not able to climb beyond the sixteenth finals.
Victoria Sebastian and Amélie Cordeau were not more successful in these Worlds. The first stopped at the same stadium as the Mosellane and the second left the final in the knockout stages.
