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Fabry Wins Gold, U.S. Athletes Produce Four
Top-5 Showings at IPC Archery World Championships
By Marvin Olberding // U.S. Paralympics //
October 10, 2007
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| Photo by Getty
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Jeff Fabry, shown competing at the
2004 Paralympic Games, can now look ahead to the 2008
Games with a third consecutive world championship on his
resumé.
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COLORADO SPRINGS,
Colo. – Winning a gold medal at a World Championships is
always a great accomplishment, but Jeff Fabry (Tulare, Calif.)
is beginning to make it look routine.
Fabry took the top prize by defeating Finland’s Osmo
Kinnunen in the men’s W1 Compound final at the IPC
Archery World Championships in Cheongju, Korea, giving him
gold medals in three consecutive World Championships. In doing
so, he set three new world records in the head-to-head
tournament - quarterfinal score, finals score and three-round
total (quarterfinals through finals) – in addition a new world
record set in the preliminary round from 70m.
Fabry was one of two U.S. medalists and four top-5
finishers at the event. Janice Walth (Lodi, Calif.) finished
with the silver medal in the Visually Impaired class. Eric
Bennett (Glendale, Ariz.) and Kevin Stone (Kodak, Tenn.) each
narrowly missed the podium, finishing fourth in the Open
Compound and fifth in the W2 Recurve, respectively.
Three other American archers finished in the top-15 in
their respective categories, as well - Lindsey
Carmichael (Lago Vista, Texas - 15th in AR3 Recurve), Chuck
Lear (Lee’s Summit, Mo. - 15th in W1 Compound) and T.J.
Pemberton (Moore, Okla. - 13th in Open Compound).
A total of 240 athletes from 38 countries competed at
the event. The host nation, Korea, won the overall medal count
with eight. The U.S. tied for fourth with its two-medal
finish.
2007 U.S. Paralympics
Archery World Championships Team
Joe Bailey (Flushing, Mich., Open
Compound)
Eric Bennett (Glendale, Ariz., Open
Compound)
Lindsey Carmichael (Lago Vista, Texas, AR3
Recurve)
Jeff Fabry (Tulare, Calif., W1 Compound)
Karl
Keranen (Silverado, Calif., W3 Recurve)
Chuck Lear (Lee's
Summit, Mo., W1 Compound)
T.J. Pemberton (Moore, Okla.,
Open Compound)
Kevin Stone (Kodak, Tenn., W2
Recurve)
Janice Walth (Lodi, Calif., Visually
Impaired)
Russell Wolfe (Williamsburg, Va., W2 Recurve)
Head Coach: Randi Smith (Salt Lake
City, Utah)
Assistant Coach: Paul Miller (San Diego,
Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Michael “Skip” Dawson (San
Antonio, Texas)
Assistant Coach: Courtney Walth (Lodi,
Calif.)
Athletic Trainer: John Nyland (Louisville,
Ky.)
Team Administrator: Kimberly Carrick-Bartkowski
(Colorado Springs, Colo.) | 
