Current Southern Counties Ladies Recurve Clout Champion Liz Bowyer of Arundown AC lowered her sight to take third place with a new personal best of 233 in the national record status Worcester shoot at RN South Coast Archers on 18th January.

Liz’s fellow members of the team that won the National Recurve Team Clout Championship in October 2008 also weighed in with useful scores. Russell French scored 273 for fourth place in the Gents Recurve, while Jon Stafford shot 258 for tenth place in the same competition.

More of the latest news from Arundown can be found on the Arundown Archery Club blog.

Last weekend’s world record status 25m FITA at Guildford saw Dawn Rowlands of Holbrook Archers score 414, a new National Ladies Longbow record.  Congratulations, Dawn!

Another notable performance by a Sussex lady came from Gillian Wood of Chichester Bowmen, whose score of 537 secured second place in the Ladies Recurve.  And Pam King of Old Colesdon Archers took third place with a score of 1031 in the Ladies Compound Double Round.

Sussex men provided a strong showing, with Ron Smith of Newhaven AC (422) and Mike Rowlands of Holbrook Archers (322) taking second and third place respectively in the Gents Longbow. A score of 1114 gave Stephen Allen of Horsham third place in the Gents Compound Double Round.

Among the younger folk, Thomas Hooper of Bognor Regis AC shot 528 to take first place in the Junior Gents Recurve.  Well done, Thomas, and well done also to Daniel Phillips of Holbrook Archers for his fifth place in the same competition.

Full results from the competition can be found here.