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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

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

The EAF is delighted to announce the appointment of Tom Williamson and Kim Copson as Assistant Team Managers for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Paul Atkins has been named as reserve. All three will work with Team Manager Hilda Gibson at the winter squads before taking a team of archers to the Delhi Test Event in March 2010 in preparation for the Commonwealth Games in October. Les Smeeton, Chairman of the 2010 sub-committee believes that from a good quality list of applicants for the posts of assistant team managers, the selection panel has appointed a very experienced Management Team to help and encourage potential Team England archers perform at their very best at the Games and bring home medals.

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.

Nichola Simpson from Oxford Archers shooting a compound bow, at the SCAS Intercounties tournament at Andover on the 13th September shot a new national record for a Hereford round of 1290 points out of a maximum possible score of 1296, which adds 10 points to the existing record.

In the Gold medal match Liam lost 118-116 to Reo Wilde of the United States, after beating Spaniard Jose Duo in the semi-finals on Wednesday. Wilde won the world championship gold 12 years after his father did likewise, but he had to be at his best to fend off a determined challenge from Liam. Both archers got underway with two 10s and a 9, to tie after the first three arrows, but the American pulled ahead by a point after the second end, shooting three 10s to Liam's 9-10-10. Three arrows later, Wilde was two points ahead, and though Liam finished the match with a perfect 3 10s, so too did his opponent

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