On June 29 and 30, the Compagnie des Archers de Lausanne organised the 44th edition of its annual competition, the “Challenge de Lausanne”. As last year, recurve archers were shooting on the Sportoto field on Sunday, while they were joined this year by all other categories on Saturday shooting session with compound and instinctive archers. […]
The World Archery Excellence Centre congratulates Ruman Shana for his bronze medal, and Marlyse Hourtou for achieving the Minimum Qualifying Score for Tokyo 2020 at the Hyundai World Archery Championships.
Ruman Shana from Bangladesh benefited in 2018 from an Olympic Solidarity scholarship at the World Archery Excellence Centre. By getting to the third individual place in the World Archery Championships, he also earned a qualification quota place for Bangladesh for the next Olympic Games, taking place in Tokyo, Japan in 2020.
Marlyse Hourtou from Chad is now training since October 2018 at the World Archery Excellence Centre as an Olympic Solidarity scholarship archer, along with Areneo David from Malawi and Mahmoud Abdelwahab from Sudan who started their scholarship in May 2018.
The World Archery Excellence Centre and its staff is proud to have supported their goals and dreams. We wish their results will keep improving to make them reach the gold.
Read more about the Olympic Solidarity scholarship archers’ training at the World Archery Excellence Centre and their participation to the World Archery Championships in the upcoming days on our website.
On May 25, 48 archers participated in the Hyundai WAEC Outdoor stage 1, the first competition of the outdoor season taking place in the Sportoto field at the World Archery Excellence Centre. 15 categories were represented, including Master, Junior, and Cadet in both compound and recurve divisions. The program of this shooting day included an […]
For the first time, the EHL (Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne) was organising its Sports Day for students outside of its facilities, due to the current construction work happening on its campus. Organisers were expecting around 500 students of the 3000 who are currently studying at the school. Various activities were proposed to the participants; basketball, […]
On the weekend of May 11 to 12, the World Archery Excellence Centre (WAEC) organised on behalf of AVTA (Association Vaudoise de Tir à l’Arc) an Instinctive Training Camp with the participation of 2 French experts, Robin Gardeur (3D World Champion) and Steve Adet (3D France Champion). 26 participants from different Swiss archery clubs joined […]
The first Kids’ Camp of the World Archery Excellence Centre in 2019 took place the week of Easter, from April 22 to 26. The Spring Kids’ Camp welcomed 25 kids from 8 to 17 years old, divided into two groups. Each child could make the most of the camp according to their archery experience: one […]
A new edition of the Hyundai WA720 Indoor Challenge took place this weekend. This competition has a special format: targets were at outdoor shooting distances – 70 meters for recurve, and 50 meters for compound – but it happened in the Easton Hall of the World Archery Excellence Centre. The Centre welcomed 46 participants. Archers […]
The programme of activities for 2019 is now available! Learn more about the events that will take place this year in the calendar. Coaching courses Level 1, 2, and 3 coaching courses will be organised at the World Archery Excellence Centre, taught by the experts, Kyeong Su Jeoung, Elena Georgita, Pascal Colmaire and Juan Carlos […]
From December 3 to 9, 2018, World Archery held their first Level 3 coaching course at the World Archery Excellence Centre. World Archery Excellence Centre Director Juan Carlos Holgado and World Archery Development Director Pascal Colmaire led the course. They shared their knowledge on advanced coaching, covering topics such as: planning and programming, physical […]
On WAEC’s second anniversary, December 2, children enrolled in clubs in the Canton de Vaud and other Swiss clubs enjoyed an indoor competition organized especially for them in the Easton Hall. December 2, the day of the 2nd anniversary of the WAEC, it was the day for kids enrolled in archery clubs in the […]