On Sunday, Lisa Barbelin, 21, won the Sud de France Nîmes Archery. With this prestigious success, the Mosellane confirms its status among the best in the discipline.
The Nîmes public was spoiled. On Sunday, he was able to attend a 100% French final at the Sud de France Nîmes Archery. Lisa Barbelin, 21, challenged Caroline Lopez, 18. The two young women, teammates in the club and in the France team, know each other perfectly. Their duel was all the more tense. Caroline Lopez started this final perfectly, chaining two ends at 30 against 28 and 29 to Lisa Barbelin to lead 4-0. The third set was the turning point of the match.
Lisa Barbelin then made 30 points and pocketed the set after waiting for the judgment of an arrow from her opponent for long seconds. She drove the point home in the next set with another 30 while Caroline Lopez shot two 9s to come back at 4-4. After a shared fifth set, it was a shoot-off that would determine the winner of this final. It was Barbelin who shot first, a 10 then a 9 for Lopez. The Moselle could let its joy burst out at winning this intense final. A success that comes twelve years after the last victory of a Frenchwoman in recurve bow, that of Bérengère Schuh in 2010.
Jean-Philippe Boulch also in gold
“I felt very good the day before, but this morning (Sunday morning) I got up very early and quite stressed. During training, I felt that this was going to be my match. I didn’t know if I was going to win or lose, but I wanted to do everything to be proud of myself when I came back tonight. When I was in trouble at the start of the match, I had a lot of emotions going through my head, but I managed to keep it simple and channel my emotions so that I didn’t go all over the place.”, rejoices Lisa Barbelin.
Another 100% tricolor final, that of the compound bow. Jean-Philippe Boulch faced the hope Nicolas Girard. It was an intense match from start to finish, with Boulch taking a 2-point lead in the third end, Girard hanging on and coming within 1 point before the last three arrows. Finally, Jean-Philippe Boulch wins with a score of 147 against 145 Nicolas Girard. He thus won his second victory in a row in Nîmes. “Nîmes is an important international tournament where you have to be present. I was, I win, so perfect. If someone had told me that at the start of the weekend, I wouldn’t necessarily have believed it. There were a lot of people this year. I had big gaps on some arrows, I still managed to maintain a correct level. The essential is done with one point more than Nicolas”, explained the gold medalist.
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