Nicholas D’Amour advanced Thursday in the men’s archery competition at the 2024 Paris Games, ranking 16th in a field of 64 and will now go on to the first elimination round that will be held next week.
The 22-year-old from St. Thomas finished Thursday’s ranking round with a total score of 673, not far behind the top competitor, Woojin Kim of South Korea, who scored 686.
D’Amour will now compete in the 1/32 elimination round on Tuesday at 7:31 a.m. Atlantic time, where he will face Fumiya Saito of Japan, who is 49th after the ranking round with a score of 650. The 1/16 elimination round will follow later in the day, with the 1/8 elimination round, quarterfinals, semifinals and finals set for Aug. 4.
D’Amour, who also competed in the 2020 Games in Tokyo and is currently ranked 11th in the world, qualified for his second Olympic berth at the Americas Continental Qualifiers in Medellin, Colombia, in April.
He is joined at the Paris Games by fellow U.S. Virgin Islands athletes Eduardo Garcia in the marathon; Kruz Schembri in fencing; and Natalia Kuipers and Maximillian “Max” Wilson in swimming.
Kuipers and Schembri will be the flag-bearers for the opening ceremony that will take place on Friday starting at 2 p.m. Atlantic time. In a break from tradition, it will be held on the Seine River in the heart of Paris, with boats for each delegation.
Viewers here at home can follow the athletes on the committee website, on NBC, and at the official site of the Paris Games.
