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by Mary Beth Vorwerk – USA Archery
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 15, 2005
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Sixteen men and women in both the recurve and compound bow categories will represent the U.S. June 20-26 at the 43rd FITA World Target Championships in Madrid, Spain. Official practice, along with the Opening Ceremony is set for Monday, June 20, with competition beginning Tuesday morning.
The qualification rounds will be held Tuesday, June 21 and Wednesday June 22. Individual elimination rounds will take place on Thursday, June 23 and the team elimination rounds are scheduled for Friday, June 24. The individual finals will he held on Saturday, June 25 and world championship competition will conclude on Sunday, June 26 with the team finals.
Representing the U.S. for the male recurve category will be 49 year-old four-time Olympian Butch Johnson (Woodstock, Conn.), two-time Olympian Vic Wunderle (Mason City, Ill.), 2005 World Games team member Joe McGlyn (Floral Park, N.Y.) and Guy Krueger (Blessing, Texas), Johnson, Wunderle and Krueger were all members of the 2003 World Target Championship Team.
On the women’s recurve side, top ranked 2004 Olympian Jennifer Nichols (Cheyenne, Wyo.) will compete on her second consecutive world target championship team. Khatuna Lorig (Bloomfield, N.J), a native of the Republic of Georgia will represent the U.S. for the first time at the world championships in Madrid along with Ashley Kamuf (New Albany, Ind.), who is also a member of the 2005 Summer World University Games Team and 51 year-old three-time Olympian Janet Dykman (El Monte, Calif.). Nichols and Dykman were both members of the 2003 World Target Championship Team as well as teammates at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
Dave Cousins (Standish, Maine), Braden Gellenthien (Hudson, Mass.) and Dee Wilde (Pocatello, Idaho) will all be making their second consecutive world target championship appearance. In 2003, Cousins, Gellenthien and Wilde won the team gold in the men’s compound category in New York City. Kevin Polish, a 22 year-old wheelchair archer from Carmichaels, Pa. earned a spot on the world team after finishing third at the World Target Team Trials in May. Polish is the first man and first American wheelchair archer to qualify for a FITA World Target Championship.
Jamie Van Natta (Toledo, Ohio), 2005 World Indoor individual bronze and team gold medalist and 2003 World Target Championship and 2005 World Indoor Championship double gold medalist and world record holder Mary Zorn (College Station, Texas) will lead the way for the U.S. in the women’s compound category. Sixteen year-old Erika Anschutz (Grand Island, Neb.) is competing on her first senior world team, along with Christie Colin (Cape May, N.J.). Zorn and Colin were teammates at the 2003 World Target Championships, where they won a gold medal in the team event.
For complete results throughout the World Target Championships, please visit www.madrid2005.net or www.usarchery.org.
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