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by Mary Beth Vorwerk – USA Archery
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 21, 2005
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - USA Archery is proud to announce the 2005 National Target Championships, presented by the Colorado Springs Sports Corp., will be held for the first time in Colorado Springs, Colo., the home of USA Archery's National Office and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), August 1-5 at Memorial Park.
Approximately 400 archers including Olympians, Paralympians, World Champions, United States Archery Team (USAT) members, world record holders, top junior archers and international archers will be in Colorado Springs for five days of intense archery competition and a chance to compete for the National title and make an attempt at setting new national and world records.
Four members from the 2004 Olympic Archery Team and three members from the 2004 Paralympic Archery Team will be in Colorado Springs competing for national titles. Forty-nine year old four-time Olympian Butch Johnson (Woodstock, Conn.), two-time Olympian Vic Wunderle (Mason City, Ill.), fifty-one year old three-time Olympian Janet Dykman (El Monte, Calif.) and 2004 Olympian Jennifer Nichols (Cheyenne, Wyo.) will all be in attendance. The 2004 Paralympians will include bronze medalists Jeff Fabry (Tulare, Calif.) and Kevin Stone (Adrian, Mich.) along with Lindsey Carmichael (Lago Vista, Texas).
Many medalists and team members from the 2005 USA Archery World Teams including the World Indoor and Junior World Indoor teams, World Outdoor Team, World Games Team and Summer World University Games Team will be competing at the Nationals in Colorado Springs.
There will be nine countries total represented at the National Target Championships as archers from around the U.S. as well as Australia, Canada, Denmark, Japan, Great Britain, Mexico, Norway and Taiwan will be competing.
National Championship competition, consisting of men’s and women’s recurve, compound, barebow and crossbow along with youth recurve and compound will run from approximately 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday August 1-5.
The championships will consist of two full FITA rounds to determine the U.S. National Champions, followed by the U.S. Open head-to-head elimination round on Friday, August 5. Archers will shoot distances that range from 30 to 90 meters, the equivalent of one football field.
The National Target Championships will also be held in Colorado Springs in 2006 and 2007.
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