On May 14, 2016, the Kyudo division of PTSV Aachen invited archers from North Rhine-Westphalia to its own dojo for the state championships.
Six teams and 25 individual archers competed in the event.

Sven Zimmermann opened the competition with a yawatashi.
In the team competition, the eventual winners began to emerge as early as the second round. In the final round, however, the tension reached its peak,
as there was a tie between the teams from Cologne (Rolf, Otmar, Frank) and Aachen (Wolfgang, Friedger, Malte, Frank) after the last arrow.

This necessitated a tiebreaker, which Cologne won by a single point.
Third place went to the Neandertal Kyudo Club (Günther, Yoshida, Reinhard, Hannelore), which, with a flawless final round, could have also competed for first place in the tiebreaker.

In the individual championship, the 16 finalists were first determined. However, the two best archers from the preliminary round then faced each other directly, resulting in Josef (KVN) being unfortunately eliminated after Enkin.
After two more rounds in a tournament format, followed by a tiebreaker, Jonas Reich (Düsseldorf) took first place, Malte Negendank (Aachen) took second, and Jürgen Rödel (Bonn) took third.

A heartfelt thank you to the organizers, volunteers, and Sven for this wonderful day of competition.

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