Peters comes up short in bid to reach quarterfinal

PARIS – Eric Peters went from 64th to 5th successful nan world’s recurve archery rankings successful conscionable complete a year.

But, nan 27-year-old marksman of Kitchener, Ont. — who won a metallic badge astatine past year’s world championships — won’t beryllium rising up nan Paris Olympics podium.

Peters was defeated 6-2 by Mauro Nespoli of Italy connected Sunday successful nan men’s individual elimination round.

The 36-year-old Nespoli won individual metallic astatine nan 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and was a personnel of nan Italian teams that won golden astatine nan 2012 Summer Olympics and metallic astatine nan 2008 Summer Olympics.

He won Sunday’s first group 28-23, past tied nan 2nd (30-30) and 3rd (28-28) sets, earlier winning nan 4th 29-26 to clinch nan showdown.

“This is nan biggest crowd that archery whitethorn person ever seen,” Peters said earlier facing Nespoli. “It’s incredible. It isn’t thing we get to acquisition often successful nan sport, and conscionable having this atmosphere, it’s thing else.”

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In July 2023, Peters travelled to Berlin and collapsed done to gain Canada’s highest decorativeness of all-time astatine nan World Archery Championships erstwhile he placed second. His world metallic badge besides secured Team Canada an Olympic qualification position for Paris.

This study by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 4, 2024.