The national champions have been chosen.

These are South Tyrol's best indoor archers

Last Sunday, the 2024 Indoor State Archery Championship took place in the Lana Middle School gymnasium.

16 January 2024

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The new national champions in indoor archery have been determined.

A total of eleven titles were awarded: the Arco Club Laives won most of them, namely four. This was followed by the archery section in the Merano sports club with three and the ASV Freienfeld with two.

Almost 70 athletes from all over South Tyrol took to the firing line at this year's title fights in the Olympic Recurve, Compound and Barebow archery classes. In addition to those from the archery section of the Merano sports club, which organized the national championship, archers from the clubs Arco Club Laives, Arcieri Bolzano, Arcieri Pusteresi, SV Kaltern, SSV Brixen and ASV Freienfeld were also represented. There were also another 40 participants from Trentino and Lombardy. Their results were included in the national ranking; they did not take part in the national championship itself.

In the Olympic Recurve archery class, Maximlian Winkler was once again in a class of his own. The archer from Arco Club Laives mastered the qualification with an outstanding result of 540 points and easily made his way to the final in the knockout phase. In the decisive match he beat Christian Badalini from the Merano sports club 6-0 and was thus crowned national champion. Winkler's club colleague Michele Terlizzi completed the podium in third place.

The club from Unterlandler Apfelstadt and especially Michela Piazzolla also had every reason to celebrate among the recurve women. The woman from Leifer is one of the strongest archers in the country and is extremely difficult to defeat. With 6:0, 6:0 and 7:3 in the quarter, semi and final, she secured the gold medal with almost no mistakes. Silver went to Linda Sira Nicolussi from SV Kaltern, bronze went to Lea Pircher from SCM.

The tournament participants in Lana taking the group photo.

In the Compound bow class, Hartmann Eller impressively demonstrated the precision he has in his blood. The athlete from ASV Freienfeld prevailed in an exciting final against Aljoscha Kienzl from the Meran sports club and was crowned national champion again after 2020. Etienne Bortolotti (SCM) was happy about the bronze medal.
Denise Maffia from Arco Club Laives had an easy time with the women. She won gold without competition.

The barebow men had a close race for the title. The two experienced archery oldies Milanko Kulundzija from the SCM and Luciano Bettoni from the Arcieri Bolzano gave each other little or nothing. In the end, the sprightly 70-year-old Kulundzija had the upper hand and won the final encounter against his opponent from the Talferstadt with 6:4. Michele Guerrini took third place, so the bronze medal also went to Meran.

The women’s final was no less exciting, where Nadia Eisenstecken mastered the mission of “defending her title” with flying colors. The archer from SSV Brixen gave Maria Ambach from SV Kaltern no chance when the final score was 6-0. Katia Alfi from Arco Club Laives won the bronze medal.

The top 3 in the individual competition:

Olympic Recurve Men
1. Maximilian Winkler (Arco Club Laives)
2. Christian Badalini (Sports Club Meran)
3. Michele Terlizzi (Arco Club Laives)

Olympic Recurve Women
1. Michela Piazzolla (Arco Club Laives)
2. Linda Sira Nicolussi (SV Kaltern)
3. Lea Pircher (Sports Club Merano)

Compound men
1. Hartmann Eller (ASV Freienfeld)
2. Aljoscha Kienzl (Sports Club Merano)
3. Etienne Bortolotti (Sports Club Merano)

Compo and ladies
1. Denise Maffia (Arco Club Laives)

Blank bow men
1. Milanko Kulundzija (Sports Club Merano)
2. Luciano Bettoni (Arcieri Bolzano)
3. Michele Guerrini (Sports Club Merano)

Blank bow ladies
1. Nadia Eisenstecken (SSV Brixen)
2. Maria Ambach (SV Kaltern)
3. Katia Alfi (Arco Club Laives)

The top 3 in the team competition

Olympic Recurve Men
1. Arco Club Laives (Maximilian Winkler, Samuel Ganz, Roberto Bezzolato)
2. Sports Club Meran (Arthur Kaspar Albin Palla, Christian Badalini, Mauro Cives)

Olympic Recurve Women
1. Sports Club Meran (Lea Pircher, Viktoria Vorhauser, Magdalena Santer)
2. Arco Club Laives (Michela Piazzolla, Daniela Bighignoli, Miriam Tamisari)

Compo and gentlemen
1. Asv Freienfeld (Hartmann Eller, Harald Gruber, Marcello Di Santo)

Blank bow men
1. Sports Club Meran (Massimiliano Broggi, Michele Guerrini, Milanko Kulundzija)
2. Asv Freienfeld (Samuel Röck, Anton Pichler, Carl Martin Kinzner)
3. Arcieri Bolzano (Luciano Bettoni, Domenico Sfondrini, Federico Vason)

Blank bow ladies
1. Sv Kaltern (Maria Ambach, Leoni Mölgg, Kunigunde Schwienbacher)