{"id":285217,"date":"2025-07-23T12:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285217\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:46:28","slug":"germany-on-top-in-qualifying-as-wind-tests-archers-at-arnhem-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285217\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany on top in qualifying as wind tests archers at Arnhem Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany fared best in challenging conditions at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/competition\/29294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second leg of the 2025 European Grand Prix in Arnhem<\/a>, topping qualifications in three of the four categories.<\/p>\n<p>Recurve man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/45288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mathias Kramer<\/a>, recurve woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/9036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katharina Bauer<\/a> and compound woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/44848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katharina Raab<\/a> all led the field at the TeamNL Centre Papendal, while the Netherlands\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/37128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stef Willems<\/a> prevented a German sweep, seeding first in compound men\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Raab\u2019s score stood out as the most impressive.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old equalled her personal best of 698 in the 72-arrow qualification round \u2013 the highest score of the day \u2013 while the rest of the compound women\u2019s field, made up of 19 archers, struggled to adjust to regular gusts that peaked near 20 kilometres per hour on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A latecomer to the world circuit, Raab has only been competing internationally since 2023. Arnhem marks the first time she enters the elimination phase as the top seed.<\/p>\n<p>Her achievement comes just over a month after she and teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/26749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paolo Kunsch<\/a> won Germany\u2019s first-ever mixed team medal on the Hyundai Archery World Cup circuit \u2013 silver at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/competition\/26295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stage three in Antalya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with a bye into the quarterfinals, Raab is well positioned to pursue her first individual podium on the international stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany fared best in challenging conditions at the second leg of the 2025 European Grand Prix in Arnhem,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,42561,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-285217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-event-coverage","11":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114902622780551426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}