The USA contingent picked up a leading five medals at the second stage of the 2015/16 Indoor Archery World Cup in Bangkok. Two of them, courtesy of Brady Ellison and Reo Wilde, were gold.
Ellison had qualified top in the recurve men’s competition with 597, tying the 14-year-old world record.
He converted pole position in qualifying into a semifinals berth with victories over Thai archers Tartan Marr and Natthapoom Phusawat, and Mexico’s Orlando Uribe. That semi was against Luis Alvarez, who beat Brady to Pan American gold in Toronto in the summer of 2015.