On Saturday, April 29, 2017, the Neandertal Kyudo Club once again hosted its friendly tournament at the gymnasium of the Gymnasium am Neandertal in Alt-Erkrath.

With guest archers from Düsseldorf, the Lower Rhine region, and the Ruhr area, five teams—each consisting of three archers—competed in the team competition.

A unique feature of this tournament is the use of targets of varying sizes.

In addition to the standard 36-cm-diameter mato, each team also had a 30-cm- and a 24-cm-diameter target at their disposal.

After five rounds, the “Neboshi” team (Thorsten Küper, Marita Paulick, Hannelore Heid-Dauner) secured first place.

They were followed by “Echo KoDaMa” (Luise Markefka-Witaschek, Matthias Orschel-Brieden, Daniel Loerwald)

Third place had to be decided by a tiebreaker. In the end, the team “Brille” (Sabrina Brunner, Olaf Koch, and Josef Hoffmann) secured third place on the podium.

In the individual competition, Thorsten Küper also took first place. For second and third place, the participants had to compete in a knockout system using two arrows.

When the rankings for Marita Paulick, Hannelore Heid-Dauner, and Josef Hoffmann were still undecided, an additional round was held.

In this method, all participants shoot one arrow at a single target; whoever is closest to the center wins the group.

As a result, Josef Hoffmann prevailed and took second place, while Marita Paulick took third place.

The Rheingold will remain in the Ruhr region this year until the competition for it resumes in a year’s time.

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