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13th Big Throwers Meeting / European Championship in Knife Throwing and Axe Throwing
13th-15th September 2013, Nivnice, Czech Republic

Officially, the 13th European Championship in Knife and Axe Throwing started on Saturday with awards being handed out. Participants came from 13 nations (CH, CZ, DE, FR, HU, IT, LT, LV, PL, RU, SK, UK, ZA) , with some of them travelling quite a distance (South Africa, south Russia). To give them the opportunity to settle down, registration and training targets were already open on Friday.

The local organiser W-Club had selected a very appealing area, with hotel, restaurant and holiday homes right on site - and enhanced it with 24 competition targets, 3 training areas and a special site for long-distance training. In the evenings, many throwers found together in big groups in the hotel's restaurant. It felt like being in a summer camp for knife throwers.

Even the constantly pouring rain did not manage to dampen the spirits. The throwers were just too occupied with training, competition throwing and having a look at the newest rankings handed out by the ladies from the administration. And hot tea, goulash and honey wine were available any time to keep you warm.

The official part started Saturday, with a handing out of certificates and medals for the current European record holders (donated by Mikhail Sedyshev and Boriss Mihailov). Owing to the numerous targets and arbiters, the throwing in the precision disciplines (standard rules, knife 3m, 5m, 7m and axe 4m, 7m) went so quickly that in the evening, the long distance event knives could already be tackled.

After a good (and sometimes rather short) night's rest the distance events knife and axe continued on Sunday, breaking some European records on the way. Quite some discussions were stirred by the Gyro Dart throwing knife, a newly released knife that flies without turning, the tip always facing the target. Some participants argued hotly that it yields an unfair advantage and should be banned from competitions. The special local competition - axe throwing while sitting behind a table - was followed by a wild west show with lasso twirling and bow shooting. The duel cup in the afternoon, a 1-on-1 be-quicker throw, took longer as expected. (Drawing the pairings anew for each round might be fair, but takes forever.)

Throwing together and mingling with other sports knife throwers is the most important thing at a throwers meeting. But, since you want to know whom to talk to to get really good, the award ceremony is also always highly anticipated. In each discipline, separate for women and men, prices were handed out for the first three: certificates, hand-made ceramic thrower figurines, and sponsored prices (8 Swedish Knifen throwing knives, and 2 Gyro Dart no-turn throwing knives).

The EuroThrowers association wants to thank all the people who made this succesful thrower meeting possible: The local organiser W-Club, it's president Dušan Dvořák, the big sponsor Žižka. And of course all the other helping hands from Nivnice and from the Naja club who worked in everything from setting up the area to keeping the scores.

Results

Complete lists of results, in the following file formats: OpenOffice / Excel

		Knife 3m (men) 1st place: Werner Lengmüller (DE), 98 points 2nd place: Peter Kramer (DE), 97 points 3rd place: Rostislav Antoníček (CZ), 96 points
		Knife 3m (women) 1st place: Anne-Laure Pfitzinger (FR), 88 points 2nd place: Olga Agafonova (RU), 79 points 3rd place: Natalia Ulianova (RU), 69 points
		Knife 5m (men) 1st place: Rostislav Antoníček (CZ), 92 points 2nd place: Werner Lengmüller (DE), 88 points 3rd place: Stany Havel (CZ), 86 points
		Knife 5m (women) 1st place: Lada Olbortová (CZ), 45 points [3x5] 2nd place: Tatiana Dolgikh (RU), 45 points [1x5] 3rd place: Natalia Ulianova (RU), 38 points
		Knife 7m (men) 1st place: Werner Lengmüller (DE), 83 points 2nd place: Pierre Cazoulat (FR), 75 points 3rd place: Pascal Boucreux (FR), 73 points
		Knife 7m (women) 1st place: Galina Chuvina (RU), 32 points 2nd place: Natalia Ulianova (RU), 23 points 3rd place: Lydia Polo (FR), 17 points
		Knife long distance (men) 1st place: Rostislav Antoníček (CZ), 17.02m 2nd place: Pascal Boucreux (FR), 16.78m 3rd place: Stany Havel (CZ), 16.70m
		Knife long distance (women) 1st place: Anna Agafonova (RU), 10.26m 2nd place: Ivana Karlíková (CZ), 10.00m 3rd place: Galina Chuvina (RU) & Catherine Ciocca (IT), 9.00m        [tie not resolved]
		Axe 4m (men) 1st place: Stany Havel (CZ), 103 points 2nd place: Josef "Pepe" Smékal (CZ), 102 points 3rd place: Werner Lengmüller (DE), 100 points
		Axe 4m (women) 1st place: Lada Olbortová (CZ), 85 points 2nd place: Cosima "Mimì" Dell'Anna (IT), 70 points 3rd place: Ivana Karlíková (CZ), 65 points [8x5]
		Axe 7m (men) 1st place: Stany Havel (CZ), 91 points 2nd place: Mikhail Sedyshev (RU), 90 points 3rd place: Werner Lengmüller (DE), 87 points
		Axe 7m (women) 1st place: Galina Chuvina (RU), 32 points 2nd place: Tatiana Dolgikh (RU), 27 points 3rd place: Cosima "Mimì" Dell'Anna (IT), 26 points
		Axe long distance (men) 1st place: Stany Havel (CZ), 26.04m 2nd place: Rostilslav Antoníček (CZ), 24.08m 3rd place: Sergey Fedosenko (RU), 22.00m
		Axe long distance (women) 1st place: Tatiana Dolgikh (RU), 13.64m 2nd place: Corinne Boucreux (FR), 10.90m 3rd place: Lydia Polo (FR), 10.27m
		Duel-Cup (men) (additional event) 1st place: Sergey Adams (DE) 2nd place: Jaroslav Stastny (FR) 3rd place: Mikhail Sedyshev (RU)
		Duel-Cup (women) (additional event) 1st place: Natalia Ulianova (RU) 2nd place: Natalia Dolgikh (RU) [No third place since participants were equal concerning rounds survived.]
		W-Club (additional event) 1st place: Stany Havel (CZ), 42 points 2nd place: Josef "Pepe" Smékal (CZ), 41 points 3rd place: Jiří Žižka (CZ), 40 points

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