This was a new venture for the County – an early season record status tournament challenging the archers of the East v the West of the County. It was not for the faint-hearted; of the 58 entrants only 27 finished to tell the tale due the intemperate weather conditions.

The shoot ended with honours even; a recurve win for the West and a compound win for the East. All the entrants who finished the shoot were awarded a medal for their endurance.

And there was one Rose award for 1100 claimed from Chris Keate – well done!

To view the Results please Click Here

Results of Adults shooting Junior Rounds

Judges Richard Hiller and Roger McMullan received the Lord Patron’s endurance awards from Roger Wolff.

This year the Commitee decided to split the tasks into manageable chunks.

Rod Woodhatch excelled as Field Captain ably assisted by Katie O’Brien, Richard Britton, Chris Jennings and Adam Jennings. The County has invested in new target numbers and metal detectors which proved invaluable.

Rod Brown provided the results using his own software package assisted by Zillah McMullan and Diane Hillier.

Chris Tucknott handled all the entries and had done most of the tournament prepraration work.

Doreen handled the on-site registration.

Jean and Alan Ruby ran the tombola.

John Humphrey organised the equipment transfer to Holbrook.

The Holbrook Club provided welcome shelter from the rain and their cafe ran out of bacon before lunch!

A big thanks to all!

Some photos of the day’s proceedings at the 2010 Indoor Championships can be seen by clicking here.

Full results from last Sunday’s shoot at the K2 can be viewed using the links below:

• Southern Counties AS Indoor Championships
• Sussex CAA Indoor Championships
• Sussex CAA Indoor Team Championships

Report and photos to follow.

Sussex Archers put in some very commendable performances at the Junior National Indoor Championships held at the National Sports Centre, Lilleshall in December 2009.

Maybe the most spectacular was 12 year old Bryony Pitman (Recurve, Worthing) who won her age group by a margin of nearly 50 points and beat two-thirds of all the girls shooting recurve bows, of all ages up to 18.

Thomas Hooper (Recurve, Bognor Regis) took the bronze medal in the under-18 age group just three points behind the two archers who shared first place.

Jamie Cole (13 years, Compound, Chichester) took a good second place in the under-14 Compound group, and barebow archers Vivienne Foord (13, Newhaven) and Dominic Bodle (12, Newhaven) both won their age-group.

Other Sussex archers at the Championships were Hayley Foord (13, Newhaven. Recurve), Stevie Kent (12, Friars Gate, Compound), and Cameron Temple (13, Ditchling, Compound).

Click this link to download the full results.