2023-08-20 17:14:33
Lisa Barbelin during the Paris Games test event, held on the Esplanade des Invalides, August 20, 2023. CHRISTIAN HARTMANN / REUTERS
“It’s indescribable how I feel. » Lisa Barbelin has, by her own admission, difficulty “to hold back tears”. On Sunday August 20, the French archer took second place in the Paris Games test event. Crowned vice-world champion by teams at the beginning of the month in Berlin, she ended up folding (6-4) against the American Casey Kaufhold, world number 7.
If the 23-year-old young woman signs her best result in a World Cup stage, she has above all had a glimpse of the joys of a podium on the Esplanade des Invalides, there where will be held, in less than a year , the archery events of the 2024 Olympics.
“I kept watching the flag rising during the anthemsays the 23-year-old Mosellane, European champion 2021, then indoors in 2022. I pinched myself to say to myself “hold back this feeling so that next time you are at the top”. »
“It’s one of the toughest World Cup stages we’ve seen, because it comes a week after the World Championship and we’re on the site of the Games, so everyone absolutely wanted to come. to see him. It’s a real meaningful medal.”reacted the national technical director, Benoit Binon.
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“I had a big click”
Since Friday, the Frenchwoman has broken her glass ceiling, making several competitors from Asian countries bend, a first. Because the Asian continent dominates the recurve bow, to the point that the French Archery Federation poached, in February 2022, the South Korean coach Oh Seon-tek, at the head of the team. peninsula at Sydney 2000 (5 medals) and London 2012 (4 medals).
“I had a big clickexplains Lisa Barbelin. I had never beaten an Asian until now. And there, on Friday, I beat the Chinese Zhang Mengyao in the play-offs then the South Korean Kang Chae-young, who is still a monument of archery [championne olympique par équipes à Tokyo]. »
As Jean-Michel Cléroy, the president of the French federation, points out: “Archery is psychological. At some point, you have to beat them. » A good omen, 349 days before the women’s final of the 2024 Olympics.
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