At the German Kyudo Championships, two members of the Neandertal Kyudo Club were part of the four-person team representing North Rhine-Westphalia in Saturday’s team competition: Johannes Maringer as the starting archer and Reinhard Kollotzek as the reserve archer. After five rounds of twelve arrows each, Maringer, Hermann Juli (Kyudogruppe Köln e.V.), and Peter Knipper (Kyudojo Ruhr, Schwerte) pulled ahead of the competition from the other state associations by a clear margin of five hits. Second and third place went to the teams from Lower Saxony and Baden-Württemberg.

In Sunday’s individual championship, three members of the Erkrath club—Reinhard Kollotzek, Johannes Maringer, and Günther Dauner—competed. Kollotzek narrowly missed advancing to the semifinals. In the tiebreaker, his arrow was only 2 mm farther from the center of the target than that of his opponent, Boris Proppe from Berlin.

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