Top Marks in Marrakesh

There used to be no shortage of shooters at the First Stage of the Indoor World Cup Circuit in Marrakesh. Crew Hoyt rang in the indoor season with a fresh World Account, a pair of podium sweeps and 10/12 of accessible medals, making one ingredient determined: Crew Hoyt will pull no punches in 2017. 

In his first match with the 2017 Hoyt Faktor and Carbon X-Tour limbs Brady Ellison shattered a standing 15-three hundred and sixty five days World Account, taking pictures a superior 598/600 in Men’s Recurve qualifications. 

Besides environment a fresh World Account, Brady spearheaded the Hoyt Men’s Recurve podium sweep, taking gold himself, flanked by Matteo Fissore and Massimiliano Mandia who secured silver and bronze, respectively. 

Crew Hoyt dominated the Girls folks’s Recurve division as smartly. Bryony Pitman shot a ideally expedient 30 in the Gold Medal Finals shoot-off to build the head location on the podium, joined by Hoyt teammate Reena Parnat who took Bronze.

Mike “Mr. Supreme” Schloesser, the completely particular person to ever shoot a ideally expedient 600/600, nearly repeated the feat in his inaugural flee with the 2017 Hoyt Prevail, taking pictures 599/600 in qualifications. When the mud settled, Mike brought dwelling silver, joined on the podium by Hungarian child Viktor Orosz who took Bronze after taking pictures a solid 149/150 in the bronze final.

Danelle Wentzel (middle), Marcella Tonioli (left) and Toja Ellison (factual) swept the Girls folks’s compound match in stellar Crew Hoyt vogue. 

The final between World-Account-Holder Danelle Wentzel and earlier World Cup Finals Champion Marcella Tonioli used to be a fight of archery titans, coming down to Wentzel’s final arrow, a required 10 that secured her the gold. 

Congratulations to those medalists and all Hoyt shooters. Very finest success with the remainder of the indoor season! Elephantine results at worldarchery.org. Photos courtesy of World Archery.

Originally posted 2018-02-14 22:11:07.