European 3D Championships 2025 in Divčibare, Serbia

It’s been almost a year now since I competed in European 3D Championships 2025 in Divčibare, Serbia. Time to reminisce. 

Qualification day 1

30th of Sep 2025 

1st qualification day over. Interesting day. Shooting felt great at times and maybe half of the time I was solving some form issue. Good thing is, I was calm and neutral and was able to gather myself. Tomorrow will hopefully be more about archery than puzzle solving.

Quite ok score and I will continue with my determined and positivie mindset. Only second competition shooting 3 under, by the way. Anything’s possible. 😁

(16 will continue to individual eliminations after 2 qualification days)

Qualification day 2

1st of Oct 2025 

2nd qualification day over. It went really well. I shot the best score of the day and climbed to rank 3. Weather was wet and cold, but I felt good the whole competition.

Tomorrow I’ll be shooting Longbow Mixed (with Tomi Lindholm) and Women’s team (with Inke Alaja, Anna Heinänen, Anne Laurila).

It was a fun day with Encarna, Johanna and Giulia. Thank you.

Day 3 cancelled

2nd of Oct 2025 

Today is cancelled. No team matches today due to fog. Hope we even get to shoot them. 

Our Women's team was so ready!

Day 4 cancelled

3th of Oct 2025 

New day here at the 3D European Championships.

No shooting due to dangerous conditions (heavy piles of snow on the branches). Most likely no team matches or only 4 teams shoot, which would mean no matches for Finland.

The weather conditions were known yesterday and they could have arranged the course somewhere open field. We even offered to carry the animals.

It’s cold, but it’s the same for all. We are on a mountain! A ski resot in October. We are pretty dissapointed.

Day 5 Women's team

4th of Oct 2026

Finally some action.

4th place in Women’s team. We won our first match against Spain...

...but lost to Austria and in the Bronze match to France.

Our team: Anne Laurila, Anna Heinänen, Inke Alaja and Paula Virmasalo

Day 5 Mixed team

6th (out of 13 teams) place in Longbow Mixed team. We shot with Tomi Lindholm.

I’m really satisfied with how I performed. I don't believe any of my arrows were out of the kill zone. We did good. This time Austria’s team shot more in the middle.

Day 6 Individual matches and Gold final

5th of Oct 2026

First match was against Sweden’s Leena-Kaarina Saviluoto. 

You can watch the match on my Youtube.

Second match was against Norway’s Therese Jacobsen.

This match is also on my Youtube.

My third match, which was the semifinal, I shot agains Spain’s Encarna Garrido Lázaro.

And again, match on my Youtube.

What my first ever international 3D semifinal win looks like:

I really did my best and managed to shoot my way to the gold match!

The gold match was against Austria’s Kristin Thannesberger. 

Match on my Youtube.

I followed my shot cycle and did good in that sense. However, I let one particular annoying thing get in the way of my concentration and it’s something I’ve been working on mentally since.

This was my first international individual medal in 3D.