Archery Championship: Clubs Partner for Regional Success

After the test run in 2025, the Basse-Goulaine arc club and the Thouarean Archers have renewed the organization of a two-person competition.

It had been a good idea. The two associations are very complementary.

Julien Arnaud, the president.

An alliance that made it possible to accommodate more registrants : 160 against 104 in 2025. If the Goulain club allows you to take advantage of the spacious Chesnaie gymnasium, has Basse-Goulaine, with a line of 15 shooters, the Thouarean counterpart brings its federal arbiter.

Ten participants from Goulain

For this tournament, the competitors came from various clubs. Some even come from the Paris region. Different categories were offered: recurve bows, compound bows and barebows (traditional bow without any element of stability also called bare bow).

Nice shooting line for 15 archers. ©Hebdo de Sèvre et Maine
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Ten licensees out of the club’s 12 were present. Only one, Damien Ronchonsanz climbs to the highest step of the podium in his compound bow category (he was the only one in the running). However, two climb on the podium, Maina Marie (3rd in U15 recurve out of 5 participants) and Francois Lavaud (2nd in senior recurve bow out of 18). Note that Clément Loyen ranks 6th and Ivaé Choimey 13th in U 18 recurve bow (out of 13); Marie-France Pigeault finished 9th out of 13 in senior 2 women’s recurve bow, Michel Proust 6th out of 17 in senior 3 men’s recurve bow, Sébastien Quéméré 6th, Hervé Theven 7th and Damien Marie 9th in senior 2 men’s compound bow.

Maina Marie 3rd in U15
Maina Marie 3rd in U15 ©Hebdo de Sèvre et Maine

Departure of a young hopeful

However, the club recorded the departure of Cléo Tulli-Priou. Joining the club in 2022 in U13, this young archer had, from the 2023-2024 season, finished vice-champion of France shooting at 30 meters outsideur. Initially, she had integrated the hope center of La Chapelle sur Erdre while remaining licensed to the club. Since then, she has gone to hope center of Compiègne because that of La Chapelle sur Erdre was canceled due to lack of staff.

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