Malan and Nel off to archery games
Top-ranked archers IIana Malan and Louw Nel are set to leave for the World Archery Games in Wroclaw, Poland on 25 July, to compete for the top spot against 24 archers from around the world.
Malan will face off against experienced archers like Toja Ellison from the US and YunSoo Song from Korea, while Nel will have Reo Wilde from the US and Riaan Crowther from South Africa to contend with.
The two took part in the Dornhuegel Shoot tournament with 20 other archers over the weekend. The archers were surprised to experience balmy weather with unexpected bursts of wind in Tsumeb.
“I am excited about the games. I have prepared myself well. The scores were great in Tsumeb and I hope to carry that over to the World Games,” Nel said.
Goetz Nederlof, manager at Dornhuegel Guest Farm and also a compound participant, hailed the competition a great success and promised to make it a popular annual event.
All archers participated in a “fun shoot” with a grand prize of a weekend for four at the guest farm. Lucky archer Bianca Karsten's arrow hit the closest to the mark.
Results from the Dornhuegel Shoot tournament:
Recurve men: Paul Grobler: gold, recurve master Pieter van Eeden won gold and Quinn Reddig took gold in the recurve cadet women category. Recurve cadet men, Adriaan Grobler took gold.
Compound women: Ilana Malan: gold and Bianca Karsten: silver.
Compound men: Louw Nel won gold. Jaques van der Merwe took silver, Jaco Vermaak won bronze.
Compound master men: Anton Zietsman: gold, and Moritz Hoof silver. Compound junior women Brigitte Tietz won gold and compound cadet men Dirk de Bod took gold, Duan Engelbrecht walked away with silver and third place went to Christiaan Louw. In the compound under–13 boys' category, gold went to CJ Button and silver was won by Timmy De Wee. Mia Karsten won gold in the compound girls' under-13.
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Malan will face off against experienced archers like Toja Ellison from the US and YunSoo Song from Korea, while Nel will have Reo Wilde from the US and Riaan Crowther from South Africa to contend with.
The two took part in the Dornhuegel Shoot tournament with 20 other archers over the weekend. The archers were surprised to experience balmy weather with unexpected bursts of wind in Tsumeb.
“I am excited about the games. I have prepared myself well. The scores were great in Tsumeb and I hope to carry that over to the World Games,” Nel said.
Goetz Nederlof, manager at Dornhuegel Guest Farm and also a compound participant, hailed the competition a great success and promised to make it a popular annual event.
All archers participated in a “fun shoot” with a grand prize of a weekend for four at the guest farm. Lucky archer Bianca Karsten's arrow hit the closest to the mark.
Results from the Dornhuegel Shoot tournament:
Recurve men: Paul Grobler: gold, recurve master Pieter van Eeden won gold and Quinn Reddig took gold in the recurve cadet women category. Recurve cadet men, Adriaan Grobler took gold.
Compound women: Ilana Malan: gold and Bianca Karsten: silver.
Compound men: Louw Nel won gold. Jaques van der Merwe took silver, Jaco Vermaak won bronze.
Compound master men: Anton Zietsman: gold, and Moritz Hoof silver. Compound junior women Brigitte Tietz won gold and compound cadet men Dirk de Bod took gold, Duan Engelbrecht walked away with silver and third place went to Christiaan Louw. In the compound under–13 boys' category, gold went to CJ Button and silver was won by Timmy De Wee. Mia Karsten won gold in the compound girls' under-13.
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