Juoksa club competition, July 2023 – results and report

Juoksa club competition results, report and photos

The July club competition has now been completed. On behalf of Juoksa and the competition committee, many thanks to all participants.

There are not a huge number of photos from the event. The rain was not as heavy as forecast, but it did dampen enthusiasm for photography. The competition was first shot as a normal round, followed by a relaxed team match bursting balloons. The grand finale was an ASA-style one-target, one-arrow shoot-off that decided the winner.

First, the results from the course round:

Compound, men:

1. Perttu Vapamaa, 52 points
2. Mika Muukkonen, 49 points
3. Ville Malinen, 37 points
4. Petri Linna, 32 points
5. Tom Vilja, 26 points
6. Pasi Auranen, 24 points
7. Eero Vihavainen, 20 points

Compound, women:

1. Aino Talvi, 28 points – 5th overall


Shoot-off, compound (ASA, approximately 28 m):

Everyone within ten points of the leader after the round advanced to the shoot-off, meaning Mika and Peetu. With a three-point gap at that stage, Mika’s options were all or nothing: aiming for the 14-point zone was the only way to take matters into his own hands, since the chance of Peetu shooting below ten was practically zero. After careful distance estimation, Mika’s arrow landed a finger-width below the 14-ring for eight points. Peetu sealed the victory with a ten-point shot, naturally aiming like a champion for the upper 12 and missing it by only a finger-width.

How the competition unfolded:

Despite the weather, with suitable equipment it was great to see many positive things as the evening progressed. Definite highlights were watching new club members Eero and Aino shoot. Considering they had only practised for a couple of weeks in their own garden, had their sight tapes made in Mika’s workshop immediately before the event, and faced distances longer than anything they had shot before, both completed an astonishingly good round. One fine example was Aino’s three points on the mouflon at 65 metres and a five-point hit on the apple from the stake.

In the final team competition, both of them burst balloons at fifty metres like seasoned archers. Ville produced several very clinical performances, including two points on the large bear at 53 metres and five points from the tower on the raccoon-and-fox combination. Pete’s biggest reason to celebrate was completing an intact competition and winning the peeking-target end. The main observation from Pasi’s competition was that pulling 32-inch arrows shot by someone with a 33-inch draw length out of targets requires real effort. Early in the round Tomppa thought the peeking target and general doomsday weather would prevail, but by the end he was smiling and telling excellent stories about wild boar that had eaten fermented barley. Tomppa also defended the team’s honour well in the balloon competition while the other team members mostly missed.

In the balloon competition, team Ville–Pete–Aino–Eero convincingly defeated team Peetu–Mika–Tomppa–Pasi. Congratulations on an excellent performance.