D’Amour Finishes in Top Ten at Medellin World Cup

The third stage of the 2023 Hyundai Archery World Cup was contested last week. More than 300 archers from 42 countries competed. Nicholas D’Amour and Anne Abernathy, represented the Virgin Islands.

The best archers in the world competed in Medellin, including World Cup stage winners and Olympic Champions. The world’s best team, Korea, was there in force.

Individually, D’Amour in the qualification round finished number 14, with a score of 672 on Wednesday, June 14. The field of 95 men was cut to 64 for the elimination rounds. This set up his first match in the elimination rounds against Hugo Franco of Cuba. D’Amour beat Franco 6-4 in the finals of the Copa Merengue, the qualifier for the Central American Caribbean Games late last year.

This first elimination round was again another close five set match, with D’Amour again beating Franco 7-3. This set-up a match against Yu-Yang Su of Chinese Taipei.

Again, in a close five set match, D’Amour prevailed 7-3. D’Amour had a perfect 30 in the final end. In the 1/8 round D’Amour faced Olympic and world medalist Je Deok Kim of Korea. In yet another close match, D’Amour lost to Kim 6-2, with Kim shooting a perfect 30 in the final end. D’Amour finished tied for 9th place, his best World Cup finish this year.