The logo above is the new brand for Commonwealth Games England Organisation, the website is www.weareengland.org 

The Delhi Games Logo and Shera the Games Mascot

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.

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."

28th June 2010

Results of Stage 2 of the Selection Shoot held at Meriden 19/20 June click here

24th June 2010

Commonwealth Games Team Announced.

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. 

Team members are:

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.”

23rd May 2010

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.

24th April 2010

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.

23rd April 2010

News item on weareengland  (CGE) web site. Click on the following link

http://www.weareengland.org/news.asp?itemid=314&itemTitle=Archery%3A+Archers+to+battle+it+out+for+Delhi+places&section=115&sectionTitle=News

20th April 2010

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

19th April 2010

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.

7th April 2010

Archers are reminded that they must submit their scores by the 12th of April 2010 in order to secure an invitation to the April selection shoot at Lilleshall. If you have the scores but have not submitted them by the 12th April, then you will not be invited to take part in the Selection Shoot Process for the Commonwealth Games Team England.

3rd January 2010
 
(From CGE comms team)

Daily Telegraph on the 30th December 2009 ran an article under the headline ' England ready to pull out of Commonwealth Games over terror risk'. In the interests of accuracy and balance Commonwealth Games England issued the following statement when the story broke.
 
Commonwealth Games England officials issued a strong rebuttal to the Daily Telegraph story that suggests that England are ready to “pull out of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games over security risks”.
 
“That is definitely not the case.  Our current and strong intention is to field a team for the Games in Delhi next year”, said England General Team Manager, Ann Hogbin.  “Of course, we have a duty of care to the athletes and other team members which we take very seriously. Despite having been given extensive briefings from relevant authorities we have not received any indication that we should not participate in the Games and we will continue to work hard to put in place the best possible arrangements for our team”.

In addition to making you aware of our official response to the Telegraph piece we would like to take this opportunity to reassure you that:
 
·       The safety of everyone who is part of the team is of paramount importance to Commonwealth Games England and to that end we have already taken significant steps to evaluate and monitor the security situation for the Games. This has included a recent briefing from specialist police units (who also provided security for Team GB in Beijing ) to the CGE Board and senior management, and team reconnaissance trips to Delhi which have involved representatives of all sports and security advisors.  
·       At no time during any of these briefings, or from any other official sources, have we received any indication that we should consider pulling out of the Games for any reason and we are continuing with our preparations to send our largest ever team to Delhi for what we expect to be a highly successful Games for England .
·       We will continue to monitor the situation closely and to actively seek and be guided by the very best expert advice from a range of official channels. We will respond in a measured way to media speculation, but will not be influenced by it.
·       We want everyone representing England at the games to have a successful and enjoyable time and recognise that this will only happen if they feel safe and secure and we will continue to work to ensure that this is the case.
·       All of the above was made clear to journalists at the Telegraph by our press office, but they chose to largely ignore our briefing and run with a story based on unattributed sources and containing innaccurate quotes and statistics.
 
Please be assured that we will continue to update you as our preparations for the Games gather momentum, but in the short term the message is clear - we have every intention of being in Delhi next October with our largest ever team, who will be well looked after and ready and able to compete at their best.

The EAF supports the above statement from the CGE and will continue to make preparations for the Games in October

24th November 2009

The Board of Commonwealth Games England have now ratified the Selection Policy 

click here for the policy document, click here for the selection process document and click here for criteria for invitation to selection shoots. (all documents are in .pdf format)

FITA have confirmed that the format of the Commonwealth Games Championship will include the use of the SET system for individuals but will remain with the traditional Head to Head for the Team event.  Therefore it may be necessary to amend the format of the selection shoot in June 2010.  This will need to be ratified by Commonwealth Games England. Confirmation will be posted as soon as possible.

21st October 2009

The above is a list of archers from English clubs in the 5 EAF regions and has been extracted from the offical GNAS 2009 ranking list.

24th May 2009

Competitor Eligibility for the Games - Article 24 of the Commonwealth Games Federation Constitution click here for the document (in pdf format)