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Archers eliminated from individual events

 

Archers eliminated from individual events

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Archers eliminated from individual events
ARCHERY: Aussie archer’s Jessica Sutton and Nick Turner have bowed out of the women’s and men’s individual events after losing their 1/16th elimination round at the Fangshan Archery Field in Nanjing on Saturday.

ARCHERY: Aussie archer’s Jessica Sutton and Nick Turner have bowed out of the women’s and men’s individual events after losing their 1/16th elimination round at the Fangshan Archery Field in Nanjing on Saturday.

In the morning session, 16-year-old Sutton came up against 13th seed Ivana Laharnar from Slovenia, and lost six sets to two, ruling her out of the competition.

“I’m not the happiest, there were a few shots I could have made a lot better,” the Queenslander said.

There was confusion in the scoring with the referee initially signalling that Sutton had won the first set 26-25. This decision was not rectified until after the match when it was revealed that her opponent had shot a nine instead of an eight, equalling the score.

Due to the mistake, Sutton and Laharnar were forced into a fifth set that was eventually not counted.

Up until that point Sutton was well and truly still in the match which the Aussie says was frustrating.

“It is a bit of annoying I guess that I thought I still had a chance to come back when t turned out I didn’t but other than that that’s about it really, it’s done now,” Sutton said.

Leading into the meet, the Aussie archer had big plans of making the top eight and says it is disappointing but it has motivated her to improve.

“It’s pretty disappointing going out in the first round, it’s never something I want to do,” she said.

“I just need to make sure I focus more on my shots and myself than the target and everything else going on and keeping things consistent.”

It’s not all over with for Sutton who still has the mixed teams tomorrow after she and teammate Elia Fregnan from Italy won their 1/16th match on Friday.

In the afternoon session teammate, 17-year-old Turner was also eliminated after going down 7-1 to seventh seed Andreas Mayr from Germany.

The result unfortunately spells an end to Turner’s YOG bout after the Queenslander was also eliminated from the mixed teams event on Friday.

“A few shots really cost me crucially,” the Queenslander said.

“I had a few good shots in there as well but I didn’t end up winning which is oh well unfortunate.”

While Turner says he would have liked to shoot a lot better, he remains optimistic about his whole experience.

“Normally in World Cups and World Championships you only ever get to shoot in that finals stadium type arena if you make a medal match so being able to shoot in that was excellent. It was a really great experience and it really drives you forward and it is what really makes you want to get there again and shoot in that environment again,” he said.

“Also just being able to shoot with the best athletes in the world really makes you want to lift your game because in Australia you know you are a big fish in a little pond and you are really thrown in the deep end here so hopefully it has given me more drive and more determination to shoot better in the future so I can come back and do as many of these events as I can.”

With Year 12 on the horizon for young Turner he says he plans on staying low in 2015 before getting back into the sport he loves with an Olympic goal in mind.

“Rio is too soon but definitely Tokyo would be a real goal for me,” he said.

“This is just a taste of the real Olympics so it definitely drives you and makes you want to go to the real Olympics more.”

Laura Judd

Olympics.com.au

@AUSOlympicTeam

 

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