Ariel Rivas of Club de Tiro con Arco Petroquímica won the Men’s Recurve division at Argentina’s 3D National Final, claiming his second national title in the discipline, El Patagónico reported. The victory came on the closing day of the two-day event and confirmed Rivas as one of the leading figures in the country’s 3D archery scene.
The final was the last event on the national 3D calendar run by FATARCO, Argentina’s archery federation, and it brought together homologated archers from across the country. It was held Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 at the Club Tiro Federal Argentino de La Plata’s Polígono Berisso range in Buenos Aires Province.
Recurve gold caps a two-day final in Berisso
Rivas topped the Men’s Recurve standings at the Polígono Berisso range to seal the back-to-back championship, according to El Patagónico. The report describes the win as reaffirming his strong run of form and cementing his place among the main references of the discipline in Argentina.
The same final produced a deep haul of medals for Rivas’s club. Petroquímica, based in Comodoro Rivadavia, finished the weekend with results across individual and team categories, a sweep that elcomodorense.net and the Comodoro Rivadavia sports office, comodorodeportes.gov.ar, also detailed in their reports.
Seven medals for the Comodoro Rivadavia club
Beyond Rivas’s recurve title, the club’s archers collected silver and bronze in the Men’s Traditional division: Miguel Prat took the silver medal for the national runner-up spot, while Gabriel Rivas finished third for bronze, both per El Patagónico.
The team events added more metal. Gabriel Rivas won gold in Mixed Teams. In the Men’s Raso category, Eugenio Vdovitchenko was part of the team that took gold, while Juan Carlos Rodríguez earned silver on a team. Luciano Mena and Gabriel Rivas also teamed up for bronze in a team competition, comodorodeportes.gov.ar reported.
Agustín Matus competed in Raso and Guillermo Bratovich in Compound, rounding out Petroquímica’s delegation at the national final, according to elcomodorense.net.
- Men’s Recurve: Ariel Rivas, gold (back-to-back national champion)
- Men’s Traditional: Miguel Prat, silver; Gabriel Rivas, bronze
- Mixed Teams: Gabriel Rivas, gold
- Men’s Raso teams: gold with Eugenio Vdovitchenko; silver with Juan Carlos Rodríguez
- Team bronze: Luciano Mena and Gabriel Rivas
What the results mean for Petroquímica
The club’s reports frame the haul as evidence of the growth of archery at its km 8 facility in Comodoro Rivadavia and of the work being done to represent the city at the country’s main competitions. El Patagónico notes the results reflect the commitment of the club’s athletes and the ongoing development of the discipline locally.
For a global reader: the 3D National Final is the closing event of FATARCO’s national calendar for the 3D modality, meaning the medals decided in La Plata stand as the season’s final national honors in that format.
Questions readers are asking about the 3D National Final
When and where did the final take place? It was held Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 at the Club Tiro Federal Argentino de La Plata’s Polígono Berisso range in Buenos Aires Province, according to all three outlets covering the event.
Who won the national title in Men’s Recurve? Ariel Rivas of Club de Tiro con Arco Petroquímica, who thereby won his second straight national championship in the category, El Patagónico reported.
Which club dominated the medal table? Petroquímica of Comodoro Rivadavia, whose archers combined for the recurve gold, two Traditional medals, a Mixed Teams gold, two Raso team medals and a team bronze.
What was still undecided after the final? None of the reports published round-by-round scores or the schedule of the next national event, so the individual match scores behind Rivas’s title and the date of the next FATARCO competition remain unpublished.
