Myanmar to hold Olympic Day Run 2007 Archery Competition

Myanmar Olympic Day Run 2007 Archery Competition will be held here next week aimed at getting more medals in the 24th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and emerging new generation archers in the country, according to the Myanmar Archery Federation (MAF) on Saturday.

Local archers will compete in men's and women's compound and recurve events in the Olympic Day Run 2007 Archery Competition scheduled on June 29 at the Kyaikkasan Archery Ground, the MAF said.

Meanwhile, the Myanmar archery team, comprising 19 archers -- six men and four women for recurve and five men and four women for compound, trained by South Korean coach Jin Su Ho since March 27, has been making preparation since last November to compete in the 24th SEA Games, the MAF said.

Of the 19 Myanmar selected archers, seven competed in the 23rd SEA Games, of which one archer got gold medal in the recurve event, it said.