The Archery GB Annual General Meeting was held on 16 April at Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre in Buckinghamshire, and attracted 130 people. Several changes were voted on at the event, which included: raising the senior member’s fee to £42…
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Spots Secured
British archers have secured another spot at the Rio 216 Paralympic Games at a Continental Qualifying Tournament held during the European Para-Archery Championships in France. Nathan MacQueen won the silver medal – and a quota place – in men’s compound.…
Rule Changes
Several changes to the Archery GB Rules of Shooting came into effect on 1 April 2016. The changes include an allowance for “other” metric rounds to be shot in three or six arrow ends; allowing the use of timing control…
Big Weekend preparations
The Archery GB Big Weekend – the annual event in which clubs across the country run have-a-go archery sessions for their local community – has been announced for 3-5 June. This falls just after the European Championships held in Nottingham and in the…
Norfolk Training Centre Open
Archery GB has opened a new training centre in Norfolk. Leading the centre will be coach Chris Latimer, and Archery GB has stated the centre’s aims are to act as a ‘focal point’ in developing best practice and talent development, and supporting archery…
Master Classes open at Lilleshall
Archery master classes will be running at Lilleshall National Sports Centre from 28 March to 1 April. Clubs, coaches and archers (recurve and compound) are welcome to attend, and the sessions include coaching from Archery GB’s performance coaches and top archers, information on equipment…
World Archery Awards
The winners of the World Archery Awards were announced at the World Archery Gala, held in Las Vegas, alongside the Vegas Shoot and Indoor World Cup Finals. The winners in each category are decided by a combination of a panel of archery…
New World Record
Park Sehui of Korea has set a new world record of 594 for the 18m indoor round in the women’s recurve category, beating the old record of 592 that was set by Berengere Schuh of France in 2009. Since she’s aged just…
Finals draw the crowds
The World Cup Finals, held in Mexico City on the weekend of 24-25 October, was the largest crowd at an archery event since the London 2012 Olympics, according to World Archery’s president. The 4,500-capacity stands were packed out as the…
New World Record!
Sara Lopez has hit the headlines once again, as the Colombian archer has posted the highest-ever recorded score for the World Archery 1440 round in history, shooting 1424 at the Colombian National Games. The previous record in the women’s compound round was set by Germany’s Kristina Heigenhauser,…