Paris, France- A 52-year streak of success continued in Paris with Easton shooters capturing 30 of 30 medals awarded within the intense archery competitors within the Paris Summer time Video games. Easton’s X10 shaft as soon as once more captured each Summer time Video games title, cementing its place as essentially the most profitable particular person piece of kit in any Summer time Video games sport.
With an epic finals battle for the lads’s Gold Medal, the USA’s Brady Ellison and Korea’s Kim, Woo-jin battled to the final millimeter, with each taking pictures a ten in a tension-filled shoot-off. Ultimately, Kim gained by a greater of millimeters, with Ellison taking silver. Korea’s Lee, Woo-seok took the lads’s bronze.
Workforce Korea took the ladies’s group, blended group, males’s group and particular person males’s and girls’s gold. Korea’s archers have relied on Easton shafts for his or her previous 40 years of Video games participation, with the Korean ladies having an unbroken gold medal group spherical sweep because the implementation of the group spherical in 1988.
For the ladies’s particular person ultimate, Korea’s Lim, Si-hyeon defeated teammate Nam Su-hyeon for the gold, both French archer Lisa Barbelin taking the bronze. China and Mexico took the silver and bronze ladies’s group medals, whereas France and Turkey took the lads’s group silver and bronze.
In blended group competitors, Korea’s Kim and Lim took the gold, whereas German stars Michelle Kroppen and Florian Unruh took silver. America’s Brady Ellison and Casey Kaufhold took the blended group bronze- giving the USA their first ladies’s medal since 1988.
The identical Made-in-USA X10 shafts, utilized by each Pairs medalist and 123 shooters from 53 nations, can be found right this moment out of your approved Easton supplier. Go to www.eastonarchery.com, to see the whole line of Easton arrows for all archery disciplines.