In Sunday‘s 4K competition, with four laps of one kilometre and three shooting phases, Karlsson again recorded the fastest time in the women’s event, finishing in 22:14, with Szulc and Great Britain’s Becky Stacey completing the top three.
In the men’s event, held in heavy rain, Saturday‘s bronze medallist Florian Caqueret led the standings with a time of 17:17, followed by Olivier Joubert, also of France, and Grzegorz Chwastek of Germany.
France took the women’s 4k team gold, with Great Britain taking the men’s title.
The sport is similar in format to biathlon and combines running with hit-or-miss shooting with recurve bows, with penalty laps incurred for a miss. Athletes, who have to carry their bows around the course, shoot on an outdoor 18m range at 16 centimetre targets from both standing and kneeling positions.
You can find out more about run archery with this set of videos from World Archery Europe.
