Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Archers Sweep Recurve Medals at World Cup with X10

Lausanne, Switzerland—Easton shooters, all fielding the legendary X10 arrow, took all 30 World Archery medals at the Lausanne World Cup event. Brady Ellison of the USA took the individual men’s gold medal over Germany’s Max Weckmuller, while Russia’s Svetlana Gomboeva took women’s individual gold over teammate Ksenia Perova. The German men’s team took the team gold over Spain while Italy’s women’s team took the gold versus Mexico in their category.

In the highly competitive mixed team competition, seen as a bellwether for the debut of the event at the Tokyo Olympic Games in July, the Netherlands team of Sjef van den Berg and Gabriela Schloesser took gold over Diya Siddique and Muhammed Ruman Shana of Bangladesh in the finals.

In the previous day’s compound finals competition, Team Easton’s Mike “Mister Perfect” Schloesser shot a near-perfect score of 149/150 to take individual gold, while Linda Ochoa-Anderson and Savannah Vanderweir helped lead the USA women’s team to the gold medal over Russia, which included Anna Cherkzhova and Viktoria Balzhanova. Mike Schloesser and teammate Jody Vermeulen also took the mixed team gold for the Netherlands.

The men’s team of Turkey, including Even Cagiran and Yakut Yildiz, won men’s compound team gold vs the Netherlands team which included Mike Schloesser and Sil Pater.

For more information on the Archery World Cup, and find live viewing times, visit worldarchery.sport

To see the full lineup of Easton target arrows, including the X10, X10 ProTour, and new ProComp, visit EastonArchery.com