Latvian Archer Sergejevs Wins World Championship in Dramatic Shootout Against Chuljun Choi

Sergejevs started the competition on Tuesday, when he got 624 points in the qualification, which gave him 29th place. In the elimination bouts, he defeated the UAE athlete Khalif Alkabi 6-0 in the first round, with the competition continuing on Sunday with the second round.

In that, Sergeev defeated the Czech Lukash Fritsch 6-4, followed by a 6-2 victory over Riccardo Alfano, followed by a 6-2 victory over Germany’s Leon Zemella in the round of 16. In the quarter-finals, the Latvian archer defeated Ukraine’s Bohdan Iļyin with 6-2, but in the semi-finals, the Frenchman Batist Adī was beaten 6-5 in a shootout.

In the final, Sergeev competed with South Korean archer Chuljun Choi. In the first set, both had the same number of points (1-1), but in the second Sergeev hit all three arrows in the top ten and achieved 3-1. The third set was won by Choi, who tied the game (3-3), but in the next both archers scored the same number of points again (4-4).

The next set, in which two more points would also give the championship title, both archers started with two accurate hits each – 20:20. With the third arrow, Choi scored only eight points, but Sergeev hit ten again and made it 6-4, becoming the world champion.

86 archers competed in this competition.

In the U-21 and U-18 groups, Madara Spāģe, Estere Ukstiņa, Emīlija Garde and Lija Viktorija Seibute took shared 57th places.

The World Championship in Ireland will end on Sunday.

2023-07-09 17:09:33
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