The Archery Association of Namibia (AAN) has slammed the Namibia Sport Awards as ‘a joke’ after four of its archers, who became world champions this year were not amongst the finalists for the awards on Friday evening.
Senior archer Beatrix van der Merwe and juniors Hofmeyer van Blerk, Oliver Rohrmuller and Eunice Pieterse won gold medals in their categories at the World Field Archery Championships in Windhoek earlier this year, but were not recognised at the awards ceremony.

At a press conference on Saturday morning, the president of AAN Jan van Blerk accused the Namibia Sport Commission of incompetence, saying that it was totally unacceptable to them.

“For us this is totally unacceptable. If the Sport Commission don’t want to recognise us as a sport code then we will in future participate on our own without national colours. The medals that we win will then be ours and not the country’s,” he said.

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Archery slams Sport Awards