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This website is the first adress when searching for archery related pictures of international events.

Are you new to archery and do you would like to see archers in action? There are some nice shots from the World Championships 2009 in Ulsan, Korea and there is some video coverage, too.

Do you want to see something special? Have you ever seen shots from an arrow hitting a waterfilled balloon? If not, try this gallery.

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ArcheryTV just uploaded a bunch of new videos on Youtube and so started the World Cup Season of 2010 online. The first stage took place in the beautiful city of Porec from 4th to 8th of May. As you are used to, there is a TV magazine produced by ArcheryTV and you are able to watch the most important matches in full length.
With the year 2010, there is quite a change in the rules of international competition: The old match system by 12 arrows has been replaced by a so called “Best out of Five” format. The competitiors are still shooting ends of three arrows each but now points are given after each end. Two points are given to the winning archer, one point each is given if the end is tied. If one competitor wins three ends in a row, the match is already over. If the score is tied after five ends, one arrow will be shot as tiebreak. The shoot-off rule has changed also because now, there is no second arrow beeing shot after a tie in the shoot-off. The first arrow counts, who is closer to the center, wins the match.
Additionally to the changes in the competition format, there is something technical: ArcherTV just started uploading some videos in 720p HDTV. The TV Magazine about the World Cup Stage in Croatia is already available in High Definition:

See all videos on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/archerytv

See pictures of the first worldcup event in the ai gallery.

Sebastian Rohrberg (2009)

What name comes to your mind, if you think about German archers? It most certainly will be this one: Sebastian Rohrberg. The two times World Field Champion of 2006 and 2008 and World Indoor Champion of 2007 did it again! This time, it is a gold medal in the European Indoor Championships held in Porec, Croatia that he won just an hour ago. Even though he had already claimed gold three times in World Championships, it’s his first European title. In the gold final match he defeated Michele Frangilli (ITA) with an advantage of one point 117:116. Congratulations!

The other Individual European Indoor Champions are Natalia Valeeva (ITA), Sergio Pagni (ITA) and Anna Stanieczek (POL).

Get all results: http://www.ianseo.net/Details.php?toId=54

The European Indoor Archery Tournament in Nîmes (France) and the NFAA World Archery Festival in Las Vegas (USA) are two big private tournaments with a high level of competing archers. 9252km is the shortest distance between the two cities Nîmes and Vegas. Travelling with the speed of sound still takes 7 1/2 hours going from one city to another and by that, you will fly over one quarter of the circumference of the earth. So what? Nîmes and Vegas just got together this year and became one tournament, the Indoor World Archery Challenge.

Dietmar Trillus (CAN) won the prestigious compound division in Las Vegas and cashed in 25,000$ (which is more than for winning the worldcup final). Though, the winner of the Archery Challenge 2010 was Braden Gellenthien (USA) who ranked 2nd and 4th in Nimes and Vegas. The other winners of the World Archer Challenge were Gladys Willems (Belgium, Women Compound), Brady Ellison (USA – Men Recurve) and Brandi Mantha (USA – Women Recurve).

And here they are: Pictures!

Gallery: NFAA World Archery Festival in Las Vegas (USA)

Gallery: European Indoor Archery Tournament in Nîmes (France)

The pictures of both tournaments are made by Dean Alberga. Visit www.dutchtarget.com for his gallery.

Now one month ago, the annual European Archery Tournament took place in Nîmes, France. As in the years before, the list of participating archers was again a who’s who of international archery. So, the big names you have heard so often in final match rounds were on screen again: Frangilli, Galiazzo, Schuh, Broadwater, Gellenthien and many more. The US Compound boys dominated the competition and made clear who is the number one country in the compound division as Jesse Broadwater wins in the final round against his teammate Braden Gellenthien.

The Frensh recurve archer Bérengère Schuh showed a great performance by scroing a perfect 120 points in the gold final match versus Tatiana Segina from Russia and Marco Galiazzo lost the final match by his last arrow, when he scored a nine after a perfect 90 points and a tied score after 11 arrows versus Michele Frangilli. This really have been some thrilling matches this year. If you like towatch them again, they are now set online by archertv:

Video in the gallery: http://www.archeryimages.net/gallery/index.php?action=details&cid=496&pos=1

The second big private european winter event, the Face 2 Face Tournament was not held this season. As it is a biannual tournament, it will be held in November 2010 the next time.

Prince William of Wales (2007)

As you may remember, I already wrote a little bit about disabled archery in January. It is possible to do archery with several different types of handicaps and as seen at the Para Archery World Championships 2009, blind archery is getting more common among the different types of disabled archery.  Yesterday, the British BBC just published some pictures of Prince William of Wales having an archery lesson – also blind.

During a visit to the new specialist centre for blind ex-service men and women “St Dunstan’s” in Llandudno, he took the time to try this advanced level of archery. To simulate blindness, he put on a blindfold that was given by the former private hospital as part of the lesson. Even though Prince William got instructions by blind archer Clive Jones, he apparently was not able to hit the target.

I am not allowed to publish any of the pictures on archeryimages, so here is a link to the BBC:

View the pictures on news.bbc.co.uk