France’s Thomas Chirault leads the championship recurve male division with 298, with Brazil’s Ana Caetano leading the women’s list with 294.
Denmark’s Stephan Hansen won the first of three daily $10k cash prizes at this competition, after scoring 300 and winning a winner-takes-all shootdown.
As well as moving to a new venue in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip, the schedule has changed this year, with the championship divisions, where the world’s top professionals compete, beginning on Thursday, and the amateur ‘flights’ divisions starting on the Friday.
Scoring continues at the Vegas Shoot until Saturday and culminates in the championship shootdown on Sunday, the sudden-death shoot-off that will decide the champion in the compound open division.
The first two days of the Vegas Shoot act as the sixth and final stage of the Indoor Archery World Series. Once the points have been calculated, the top 16 archers in the recurve men’s, recurve women’s, compound men’s and compound women‘s elite rankings are invited to compete in the Indoor Archery World Series Final.
Live broadcast from the medal matches of that competition starts at 4pm local time on Sunday on archery+
Full Vegas Shoot results are available here.
