In the First World Cup kyudo the Italian team has passed the first stage qualifying to the finals. Then passed against Sweden reaching the semifinals. In the semifinal, was overcome by U.K. (the movie refer to this match). Finally they placed fourth, losing against Finland in the third and fourth place final.

Here are the winners of the mudan sandan competition:

1. Gold medal – Marion Herbst – Switzerland
2. Silver medal – Ruth Gysin – Switzerland
3. Bronze medal – G. (Fuu) Miyatani French – USA

Congratulation to the winners and tanks to French for information and picture

In the recent First Sekai Kyudo Taikai held in Tokyo, in addition to the team competition, there were also three individual competitions: one for up to sandan, one for yondan and upper and the other for shogo.

In all competitions kyudoka had to shoot two arrows and hit the target with both to qualify to the finals.

Shogo classification:

1. Hoff Feliks  – Germany – Kyoushi 6 dan (on the right in the picture)
2. Luzet Claude – France – Kyoushi 6 dan (on the left in the picture)

The bronze medal were not assigned because only 2 kyudoka qualified hitting 2/2

Yon dan and upper classification:

1. Shannon Cynthia – USA – IV dan

Mudan – san dan classification

I don’t remember the 1st, 2nd and 3rd. If someone know it please tell me the names.

Here you can see the 1st and 2nd place final between UK (on the left) and France (on the right)

Twenty countries from all over the world have partecipated to the event. The first three placement are:

• Gold Medal: France
• Silver Medal: UK
• Bronze Medal: Finland

In the semifinal the winner team placed a fantastic 12 hitting on 12 shooting that means that all the three archers have paced in the target all the arrows they shooted (in Japanese this is called Kaichu). Congratulation to the winners. Good also the 4th position of Italy.

In the picture you can see the first and second place final between UK (on the left) and France (on the right)

The International Kyudo Federation (IKYF) will host in April 2010 the First Kyudo World Cup. The competition will take place in Tokyo at All Nippon Kyudo Federation Chuo-Dojo and Meiji-Jingu Shiseikan Kyudojo.
There will be a team and an individual competition.

Schedule:

Saturday ,24, April 2010 Team competition, Individual competition: mudan – 3rd dan
Sunday, 25, April 2010 Individual competition: 4th dan, 5th dan, Shogo(Renshi, Kyoshi)

On September 23 the final of the kyudo (Japanese Archery) national competition for women, “41st Empress Cup”, took place in the Meijijingu dojo (Tokyo). The kyudoka reached to the final were 20 and competed at best of 10 arrows.

At the end of the competition, two kyudoka scored 9 hits while other 3 kyudoka stopped to 8. It was necessary a tie break to decide the top three.

The ranking is as follows:

1. Tomomi TATENO  – 6th dan Kyoushi

2. Midori OOKI – 6th dan Kyoushi

3. Naomi YAMADA – 6th dan Kyoushi

First classified in the ranking points: Chiyoko IIJIMA – 7th dan Kyoushi