Q: I shoot recurve, and my scores are improving to the stage where they’re good enough to shoot for my county, but there are still occasions where I find I’m struggling to draw fluently through the clicker. Is there anything I…
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Brady makes World Cup history… again
Brady Ellison is the only recurve archer in World Cup history to have won two back-toback finals, but after Lausanne 2014 he is now also the only archer to have three World Cup titles. Brady’s challenging first round match with…
Inaugural Invictus success for archery
Team GB found great success in archery at the Invictus Games, the first international celebration of rehabilitation through sport for wounded or sick servicemen and women of its kind in the UK. Archery attracted more entries than any other sport…
National Series Final is a success
Over 8,000 people descended on Wollaton Hall for the last weekend of August as it played host to the Archery GB National Series Final. Now in its second year at the iconic venue, the final had been extended to two…
Success in Switzerland
Great Britain’s para-archery squad picked up nine medals at the para-archery European Championships in Switzerland. The haul meant the team ranked second overall in the medal table, and included all three individual medals in women’s W1 – where Jo Frith…
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World Cup: Three Stages In
Three stages of the 2014 World Cup have been completed, and the rankings ahead of the fourth stage give some clues as to who might be making an appearance in the finals at Lausanne. Last year’s champion Oh Jin Hyek leads…
Tagged with: archery, compound, erika jones, finals, Jung Dasomi, Lausanne, Oh Jin Hyek, outdoors, recurve, Sebastien Peineau, stages, world archery, world cup
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Medals at Euros for GBR juniors
The Great Britain cadet and junior teams returned from the European Youth Outdoor Championships in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with one gold, one silver and two bronze medals won. Bradley Denney, Joe Ground and Jack Masefield took gold against Turkey in the recurve…
Naomi Folkard first over 1350!
Great Britain’s number one-ranked recurve archer Naomi Folkard has broken the British record for the FITA (1440) round, shooting a score of 1356. The score is the first shot by a British woman that has broken the 1350 barrier, and…
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Q: I’m struggling to use a finger tab – every time I shoot with one my arrows go everywhere but the target. Any advice on what to use or what to do? A: This question is a little complicated to answer…
WA Secretary General elected to World Games Committee
Tom Dielen, World Archery secretary general, has been re-elected to the International World Games Association Executive Committee. The World Games has been referred to as ‘the Olympics of the compound discipline’, and features a field round for recurve and compound…
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