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5th September 2010

Gold for Nicky Hunt

It is Nicky's first gold of this year's World Cup tournament, and adds to the silver medals she won in Porec and Antalya. It means she qualifies in top place for the World Cup Grand Final, which takes place in Edinburgh later this month. And by qualifying automatically, she also hands a Grand Final place to fellow Briton Andrea Gales, as GB's highest placed second archer in the overall standings - Andrea scored points at both Porec and Antalya.

"I'm absolutely thrilled to win the gold," said Nicky, who defeated Mexico's Linda Ochoa in the final, but needed a one arrow shoot-off, after their match finished tied at 5-all.

In a tense final, Nicky started well, winning the first two sets and going 4-0 up. But she allowed Ochoa back into it, and after five sets they were tied at 5-5, meaning a one arrow shoot-off. Both archers scored a 9, but Nicky took the title by virtue of a stronger shot.

It will be Nicky's second successive appearance in the World Cup Grand Final. Last year in Copenhagen, she finished fourth, after losing both her semi final, and her third/fourth shoot-off. She and Andrea will line up with six other women's compounders in Edinburgh, with Ochoa, and the 2008 Grand Final gold medalist Jamie Van Natta (USA), also in the line-up.

In the team ladies compound tournament, Nicky, Nichola Simpson and Dani Brown beat Iran to take the bronze medal. Trailling by a point at the halfway stage, the GB trio hit nine 10s with their last 12 arrows, while Nichola dropped just two points throughout the match.

Chris White, Liam Grimwood and Duncan Busby took the silver medal after losing out to Australia in the final of the men's compound title. In a close match throughout, the Australians clinched victory with a perfect 60 points in the fourth end, to win the gold medal by 233-231.

Simon Terry, a silver medalist at last year's Grand Final, has also qualified for Edinburgh automatically. Though he didn't feature in the medals in Shanghai, performances at other World Cup events this year meant he finished fourth in the overall standings.

26th August 2010

The English Archery Team for the Commonwealth Games have adopted the bear in the picture as their mascot for the Games but he/she needs a name. Please suggest a name, by e-mailing the following address namethatteddy@englisharcheryfederation.org we have already received some names from the team members, but would like your input as well. Sadly there are no prizes, but we thought you might like to enter into the spirit of competition.

The team leave for India between the 24th and 26th of September so the closing date is 21st September.

12th August 2010

Great Britain has won a World Cup silver medal, thanks to Larry Godfrey and Naomi Folkard both are members of Team England for the Commonwealth Games .

The two GB recurvers fell at the final hurdle when they lost to Korea in Saturday's final, missing out on the gold by 134-129. But it was still a great effort by the GB two.

The Korean pairing of Kim Moon Jung and Oh Jin Hyeh were always on top, taking a one point lead after the first end, then stretching it to seven points at the halfway stage. In difficult conditions caused by the wind, Naomi seemed to find the going tougher, as she hit a 3 with one of her arrows.

She did likewise in the third end, but thanks to two 10s from Larry, there was no change in the seven points deficit going into the fourth and final end.

This time both Larry and Naomi put up a sterling show and chipped away at their deficit, but the Koreans hung on to take the gold.

29th July 2010

Important Notice for Senior Archers - The date of the National Indoor has been brought forward to the first weekend in December 2010. Therefore the cut off date for submitting scores has been changed to 8th November. For the 2010 tournament scores will accepted for shoots held from 1st January 2010

Please see "Shooting for England Page" for details

26th July 2010

Team Management now ratified by Commonweath Games England

The management team for the Commonwealth Games has now been ratifitied by Commonwealth Games England. The Team Manager is Hilda Gibson with two assistants, Tom Williamson and Kim Copson, as previously announced. In addition, following Dani Brown's historic qualification, a third assistant, Paul Atkins, has been included. Finally, we will also have the support of Jamal Mashlab, English Iinstitute of Sport (EIS) physiotherapist and Lloyd Brown, ArcheryGB Olympic Coach.

Hilda Gibson commented "The Team England archers are competitive in every category. The selected management team has a strong mix of international experience and expertise in specialist fields. Our objective is to help the archers to achieve their goals, both as individuals and as a team."

23rd July 2010

English archers on the paralympic squad have won a gold medal and two silvers on the final day of competition at the European Grand Prix tournament at Stoke Mandeville for disabled archers from around the world. The gold medallist was once again Danielle Brown, in the women’s compound tournament to continue what is becoming a great summer for her. Last month she secured a place at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi later this year, and won the National Series tournament at Lilleshall. She came second at another National Series event, at Bradford, earlier this month.

England’s Alan Wills will go to the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games as a world champion after taking gold at the FITA World Field Archery Championships in Hungary yesterday (Sunday). The 28-year-old from Frizington in Cumbria won an all-English men’s individual recurve final, in Visegrad beating Jon Shales 54-51.

There was also a silver medal for another of England’s Delhi archers, Naomi Folkard. She went down 53-45 to Christine Bjerendal of Sweden in the women’s individual recurve final. The field archery championships differ from those that will feature in Delhi as it involves shooting at different sized targets at different distances and at different gradients on a field course. In the Delhi competition targets will be at a uniform distance of 70m.

But Wills said his victory had given him a real boost. “It hasn’t really sunk in yet,” he said today (Monday). “This will give me some more confidence and it will also be really good for the team. We’ve got a really strong team. “I was something like seventh after the first couple of qualifying rounds and I wasn’t performing up to my potential,” he said. “I decided to just give it my best and go for it, and it all came together.”

Wills said he is looking forward to competing in Delhi, where archery makes only its second appearance on the Commonwealth Games programme. “The Commonwealth Games are a once in a lifetime opportunity. Archery hasn’t been at the Commonwealth Games for 28 years and I’m really looking forward to it,” he added. Wills competed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games but just missed out on a place in the quarter-finals.

Folkard, who is 26 and from Kidderminster in Worcestershire, won a bronze medal in the World Field Archery Championships four years ago. She has competed at the last two Olympic Games. She had to beat team-mate and fellow England team member for Delhi, Amy Oliver, in the shoot-off for a place in the semi-finals in Hungary. Oliver, from Rotherham, finished just out of the medals in fifth.

See Junior Target page for the reults of the Junior Home Nations Match and Senior Target Page for the results of the Euronations Match

Archers are reminded of the cut off date for submitting scores for selection to the Senior Home Nations Match - Monday 5th July 2010.

The team selected to represent England at the Commonwealth Games will NOT be representing England at the Home Nations match which takes place during the British Target Championships at Lilleshall on 14th August, so please send in your scores so that you may be considered for selection.

After a series of selection shoots, the English Archery Federation announced members of Archery Team England which will compete in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi later this year.

Twenty five archers qualified to compete for one of the sixteen team places at the World Record Status event, hosted over two days by Meriden Archery Club last weekend.

Cumulative scores from earlier rounds were added to two further 70 metre qualifying rounds of 72 arrows each were shot on Saturday. Nichola Simpson put three points on her World and European Masters Record shooting 689, while Simon Terry increased the British Record by five points with a score of 686.

At the end of the day the top six archers in each of the four categories, male and female Recurve and Compound qualified for the Sunday morning 5 match series of Round Robin Head to Head Sets. These matches were shot under the new FITA Rules for 2010 comprising six arrow ends scoring 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw; arrow values are scored but do not reflect in the result, a tied match is decided on a one arrow shoot off. The calibre of shooting was such that in 4 out of the 5 match series were decided on a single arrow shoot off.

In the afternoon the top four archers in each category shot a further 6 match series of ends of three arrows to determine the Team which will travel to Delhi and the non travelling reserves. Five out of the 6 match series went to a single arrow shoot off.

Ladies Recurve: Alison Williamson, Amy Oliver, Naomi Folkard and Charlotte Burgess as non-travelling reserve.

Ladies Compound: Nicky Hunt, Danielle Brown, Nichola Simpson and Rikki Bingham as non- travelling reserve.

Gents Recurve: Simon Terry, Larry Godfrey, Alan Wills and Rob Hallworth as non- travelling reserve.

Gents Compound: Liam Grimwood, Chris White, Duncan Busby and Andy Rikunenko as non-travelling reserve.

Archery Team England will continue preparation for the Commonwealth Games in October by attending the Euronations Tournament in Dublin in July where there will be an extended training /development camp. The Team will also represent GB at the 4^th Leg of the WCS in Shanghai in September, following an agreement with the UK governing body.

Team Manager Hilda Gibson said: “We have a really strong team this year. The qualifying event was a very tough, challenging and competitive process for all involved. We had some fantastic performances over the weekend, including a number of records. The team going to Delhi have all achieved at world level and will be looking for medals.”

Report sent to Commonwealth Games England on the recent successes of English archers at the European Championships and the 2nd leg of the World Cup.click here

The format of the second day of stage 2 of the selection shoot at Meriden (20th June) will be the SET system that has been introduced by FITA for individual matches, has now been agreed with CGE as it is a change to the published format. click here for the amended selection process document for the 20th June at Meriden.

The format of the second day of stage 2 of the selection shoot at Meriden (20th June) will be the SET system that has been introduced by FITA for individual matches, this needs to be agreed with CGE as it is a change to the published format. Details of the scoring system that will be used will be published as soon as possible.

Click the link for the results of the 1st Selection Shoot held at lilleshall on the 17th Aril 2010. Results

The following list of archers qualified at the first stage selection shoot on the 17th April at Lilleshall. They have been invited to the 2nd Stage of the Commonwealth Games Selection shoot to be held at Meriden Archery Club on the 19th/20th June 2010.

The Individual Compound finals were shot this morning. Nichola Simpson against Gagandeep Kaur (India) in the semi finals; Gagandeep went through to the Gold medal match with 6 points to Nichola's 2. Nichola went on to win Bronze shooting against Tracy McGowan of Scotland by 6 points to 2. Gold was won by Lucy O'Sullivan (Jersey) shooting against Gagandeep, result 7 points to 3

Mens Compound finals saw Mahazan of Malaysia, who took Mark Franklin out in the quarter finals, win Gold from Sherpa of India. Srither of India took Bronze.

Photos added on the Gallery Page of the Practice and Qualification days. Currently there are no photos of the Recurve members of Team England available from the source.

The Compound men, James Bingham, James Forbes and Mark Franklin beat India in their semi final 226 to 225 and then went on to take the Gold medal 232 to 229 against Malaysia.

Compound Ladies, Andrea Gales, Nicky Hunt and Nichola Simpson, beat Malaysia 219 to 214 in their semi final, and with a score of 222 to tie with India in the Gold medal match, England went on to win the tie break shooting 3 golds (30) to India's 25.

In the Recurve men's match, Rob Hallworth, Jonathan Shales and Lee Williams went out to India in their semi final and will meet Scotland in the Bronze medal match. In the Bronze medal match England took the prize from Scotland 210 to 203

Today saw the individual elimination rounds in the morning followed by the Team elimination rounds in the afternoon. This is the first major international tournament to use the set system which comes into operation in April 2010.

Compound archers Hunt, Simpson, Bingham and Forbes had byes into the 1/8 round. All the remaining England archers won their 1/16 matches with Shales and Williams holding their nerve to win deciding one arrow shoot offs when their matches were drawn.

Recurve Louise Colville provided the upset of the day by taking out Rimil Buruily, the top seed, to progress to the quarter finals where she looked to be holding her own but eventually lost out to another Indian. Abi Clayton and Estelle Edwick did not progress further than the 1/8 round, both losing to Indians. The Recurve men Rob Hallworth, Jon Shales and Lee Williams were also on the losing end of their 1/8 matches to Indians.

Compound men James Forbes and Mark Franklin both progressed to the quarterfinals but were then taken out by the opposition. James Bingham had a tough match against India’s J Nanoma drawing the first two sets but just lost out on the last set.

The Indians failed to dominate in the women’s Compound category. Nicky Hunt progressed to the quarter finals, having dispatched Elaine McLean (Scotland), only to come up against an in form Tracey McGowan (Scotland) who took the match. Andrea Gales lost to Lucy O’Sullivan (Jersey). Nicky Simpson won her 1/8 match against J Sarikonda (India) and then won through to the semi-finals by beating Claudine Jennings (Scotland) in the quarter finals.

Friday’s semi final line up is McGowan (Sco) v O’Sullivan (Jer) and Kaur (Ind) v Simpson (Eng).

With only five women’s Compound teams England have a bye to the semi-finals, drawn against Malaysia. Scotland and India provide the second semi-final.

The men’s Compound team also have a bye and are drawn against India, with Malaysia and Wales in the second semi-final.

The men’s Recurve team will face India in the semi-finals after a convincing win over Wales, whilst Scotland will line up against Malaysia.

Full results can be found at www.archery.org and take the link to the Commonwealth Games Test Event.

Results of the qualification round at the Commonwealth Games Test Event - Dehli - India. Full details can be found on the FITA website

Confirmation that the EAF Selection shoots will take place at Lilleshall 17th April 2010 and 19/20th June 2010 at Meriden Archery Club. Please note these shoots are invitation only.

English Recurve and Compound archers are advised to see CG 2010 page for updates.

Compound Ladies	Recurve Ladies	Compound Men	Recurve Men
Nicky Hunt 1st 681	Estelle Edwick 13th 591	James Bingham 5th 678	Jon Shales 12th 634
Nichola Simpson 2nd 671	Louise Colville 17th 571	James Forbes 7th 677	Rob Hallworth 16th 611
Andrea Gales 13th 652	Abi Clayton 22nd 542	Mark Franklin 14th 667	Lee Williams 18th 599

Team Rankings
1st England 2004	1st India 1945	1st Malaysia 2035	1st India 1992
2nd India 1971	2nd Malaysia 1775	2nd India 2034	2nd Malaysia 1941
3rd Scotland 1953	3rd Wales 1732	3rd England 2022	3rd Scotland 1881
4th New Zealand 1947	4th England 1704	4th Scotland 1978	4th England 1844
5th Malaysia 1939	5th Singapore 1688	5th Wales 1969	5th Wales 1751
			6th Jersey 1654

Recurve	Compound
Charlotte Burgess	Rikki Bingham
Louise Colville	Dani Brown
Naomi Folkard	Andrea Gales
Amy Oliver	Lucy Holderness
Alison Williamson	Nicky Hunt
	Nichola Simpson

Tom Barber	James Bingham
Larry Godfrey	Duncan Busby
Rob Hallworth	James Forbes
Michael Peart	Liam Grimwood
Simon Terry	Jonathan Mynott
Alan Wills	Andy Rikunenko
	John Stubbs
	Chris White