European Youth Cup – Leg 1

European Youth Cup LEG 1 Underway 
The first of the international marquee outdoor events for the youth categories kicked of this week with the European Youth Cup Leg 1.  The event is being hosted in Heviz, Hungary.
Archery Ireland is proudly represented at this event, in the Junior Men’s Recurve category, by Quintain Noonan and his coach Fiona Clark. The competition itself has 28 individual countries in attendance, with just over 280 Junior & Cadet archers in attendance. The archers are divided across the respective recurve, compound, junior,cadet, male and female categories.
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Quintain took to the field this week in the junior men’s recurve category, that comprised of 55 individual archers. During the ranking round Quintain scored a solid 600, while battling  what the competition organizers are describing as very strong winds resulting in target stands, butts and tents needing re-anchoring. This score, which ranked him 39th overall in the field, meant that Quintain successfully made the initial 48 archer cut. From there he entered the knockout stages and was seeded against the 26th ranked archer, Buianto Tsyrendorzheiv. The Russian archer took the match 6-2, despite Quintain’s strong performance in the head to head stage.
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 This is the first of many international youth events, worthy of our junior archers focus,  during the current outdoor season. Other events where we can look forward to seeing, Irish Male and Female archers in action in the  Junior and Cadet divisions include:
European Youth Championship – July, 18-23, Bucharest (Romania)
European Youth Cup Leg 2 – June, 21-25, Riom (France)
Look out for further information regarding these events in the future.
Streaming of the current event can be found at the following links below. official competition website with more exciting images can be found at http://eyc.misz.hu/

LIVE Streaming sessions of Finals on WAE Youtube official channel, thanks to the new Italian TV Van “Tutankamion.

Mixed Team Cadets Finals (on 4 May): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNbXNKi8254

Mixed Team Juniores Finals (on 4 May): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFAVEkJ5CoA

Team Finals (on 6 May): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFUHSKZwyZ4

Individual Finals (on 7 May): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0z1wkgI9s4