Team France won The First Kyudo World Cup

[Astroboy]

Congratulation Team France on First Kyudo World Cup Victory !



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).
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Meanwhile, Team Japan was eliminated from the match in the preliminaries :

 

[NickJaguar]

This is interesting. I thought that kyudo was only in Japan.

I checked up the number of participants in each country on the International Kyudo Fedration website.


Japan 130,267
Germany 1,132
France 358
The U.S 242
Italy 151
Switzerland 111
Belgium 82
The UK 80
Netherlands 70
Austria 68
Finland 58
Spain 52
Norway 25
Sweden 21
Portugal 15
Iceland 14
Luxembourg 14


It's interesting that Japan and the US are the only countries from non European regions.
We have 2000 times more participants in Japan than in Finland but yet we lost in the preliminaries...
It's too bad...