EST 2022 in Deinze

For the first time in the 67-year history of the European community of historic guilds (EGS), a woman has emerged from the shooting competitions as European queen. A woman also shot the prince bird at the European shooting festival in Deinze in northern Belgium.
European Queen Svenja Reher and European Princess Jannika Klos both come from North Rhine-Westphalia. 264 competitors from seven countries had registered for the king and prince shooting competitions. The 36-year-old new European Queen Svenja Reher comes from Münster and has been a member of the St. Wilhelmi Brotherhood Kinderhaus/Münster for 20 years. She is the mother of a three-year-old boy and a one-year-old daughter. She came to the European Queen shooting competition alone because her husband had to look after the children. The retail saleswoman had just as little expectation of shooting the bird as Princess Jannika Klos. The 25-year-old from Kerpen is an intensive care nurse at a hospital in Bedburg and has been a member of the St. Hubertus Guild in Kerpen since 2001. After the bird was shot, the two women were inducted into their offices by Grand Master Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen and the President of the European Marksmen, Prince Charles-Louis de Merode, during a festive mass in the Gothic basilica in Deinze. They will now represent European marksmen until the next European Festival in Mondsee, Austria, in 2024. The European community of historic guilds has one million shooters and their families. Among the applicants was also a shooting king from Ukraine.