LAUSANNE (SWITZERLAND): World Archery released the nominees for the 2023 World Archery Awards in various categories. There are shortlists for nine of the prizes including the six category trophies – for recurve men, recurve women, compound men, compound women, para men and para women – that will be open for public vote from 10 November to 10 December 2023.
Six Indians, including one coach, figure among the nominations for the 2023 World Archery Awards. They are: Aditi Swami, India (Breakthrough), Jyothi Surekha Vennam (Compound women) and Sheetal Devi (compound).
Included on the shortlists for 2023 are all four world champions – Mete Gazoz, Marie Horackova, Pravin Deotale and Aditi Swami – as well as India’s record-setting armless archer Sheetal Devi and first-year compound coach Sergio Pagni.
Aditi Swami (Breakthrough) and Jyothi Surekha Vennam (Compound women) are the other Indian nominees.
The overall Athlete of the Year trophy, which was awarded for the first time in a decade last year, is decided by a panel of journalists.
Great Britain’s Ella Gibson received the principal honour in 2022 with Italian barebow archer Cinzia Noziglia the surprise runner-up. Olympic Champion An San and world para champion Matt Stutzman were among the other athletes to receive honours.
Included on the shortlists for 2023 are all four world champions – Mete Gazoz, Marie Horackova, Pravin Deotale and Aditi Swami – as well as India’s record-setting armless archer Sheetal Devi and first-year compound coach Sergio Pagni.
The winners will receive physical awards and be announced in early 2024.
Nominees: 2023 World Archery Awards
The overall trophy is awarded by open vote and there is no shortlist.
Breakthrough: Liko Arreola, USA, Lim Sihyeon, Korea, Aditi Swami, India
Coach: Marc Dellenbach (formerly Germany), Sergio Pagni, India, Chris Webster, USA.
Judge: Andrea Aguilar, Guatemala, Hossein Nasirinejad, Iran, Kristina Reitmeier, Czech Republic.
Recurve men *: : Marcus D’Almeida, Brazil, Mete Gazoz, Türkiye, Woo Seok Lee, Korea, Mauro Nespoli, Italy, Eric Peters, Canada.
Recurve women*: Penny Healey, Great Britain, Marie Horackova, Czech Republic, Casey Kaufhold, USA, Lim Sihyeon, Korea, Alejandra Valencia, Mexico.
Compound men*: Jozef Bosansky, Slovakia, Pravin Deotale, India, Mathias Fullerton, Denmark, Prathamesh Jawkar, India, Mike Schloesser, Netherlands.
Compound women*: Liko Arreola, USA, Aditi Gopichand Swami, India, Sara Lopez, Colombia, Elisa Roner, Italy, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, India.
Para men*: Bahattin Hekimoğlu (W1), Türkiye, Nathan MacQueen (compound), Great Britain, Kevin Mather (recurve), USA,Daniele Piran (visually impaired), Italy, Guillaume Toucoullet (recurve), France.
Para women*: Chen Minyi (W1), China, Öznur Cüre (compound), Türkiye, Sheetal Devi (compound), India, Asia Pellizzari (W1), Italy, Wu Chunyan (recurve), China.
*Open for public vote at www.worldarcheryawards.com
