Denmark, Colombia & The Netherlands win first ever World Championship titles
With the launch of an X10 arrow shaft into the ten-ring for victory, the 2013 World Archery Championship and 2013 senior outdoor season concluded with an unprecedented medal count for Team Easton shooters in every category contested. The event was the most watched, followed and, in many ways, exciting yet.
The 449 participating athletes came from 69 countries, of which 248 were men and 193 were women. The World Championships, an event that usually features a good share of surprises, brought unexpected victories for young archers Maja JAGER (DEN), in the recurve women's event, and Mike SCHLOESSER (NED), in the compound men's final.
With 10 new world champions crowned, the 47th World Archery Championships saw all five continents represented.
- 30 medals were awarded to 15 different National Federations.
- Denmark, Colombia and The Netherlands won their first ever World Championship titles.
- Both mixed team titles were successfully defended. Top Korean "GenX10" pair KI Bo Bae and OH Jin Hyek won the recurve competition, which KI won with IM Dong Hyun in 2011. Italy won the compound competition, with the same double act that took gold last time: Marcella TONIOLI and Sergio PAGNI, launching Easton's Pro Tour compound shafts
- France beat Korea in a recurve team match for the first time in history. The all-Easton French team of Thomas FAUCHERON, Gaël PREVOST and Jean-Charles VALLADONT rose to defeat the almost-invincible Korean armada, beating IM Dong Hyun, LEE Seungyun and OH Jin Hyek in a bronze-medal match that came down to the final arrow. The last two times these teams met was in the previous two world championships' gold medal finals. This French victory sent the Korean recurve men home without a medal in the team event for the first time in many years.
Team Easton shooters are no strangers to the winner's podium. Since archery returned to the Olympics in 1972, Easton arrow technologies have been used to win in every gold, silver, and bronze title.
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