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.

Six Sussex archers, including five from Arundown AC, travelled to the GNAS National Clout Championship at Barnsley on 17th October, and Liz Bowyer came back as the 2009 UK Lady Recurve Champion.

2009 National Ladies Recurve Clout Champion - Liz Bowyer of Arundown AC

The wind was cold and variable, and hard to read because the shooting line was protected by trees. Liz found the first round hard work and at lunchtime was trailing in sixth place with 87, six points behind the leader, but she hunkered down in the afternoon and scored 109, fifteen more than the lunchtime leader, to win by nine points.

Another Sussex archer, Graham Brown, took the Bronze in the Gents Longbow division.

Liz was one of six National Champions from the Southern Counties Region, as against five from Northern Counties and two from Grand Western, which shows that interest in Clout archery is now spread quite proportionally between the larger regional associations, and not just in the North. There were seven archers from Scotland, but none from Wales or Northern Ireland.

Northern Counties do a great job putting on this shoot, they manage to find an exceptionally good-natured group of officials, and the whole mood is friendly and inclusive, with the most competitive and accomplished clout archers always ready to advise and assist and encourage anybody, whether it’s first-timers or serious opponents. And like most Northern clout tournaments, there were nearly as many ladies as gents on the field.

Full results from the championship can be downloaded by clicking here.

Rod Brown, Arundown AC

The results of the 2009 Sussex Championships held at Falmer High School on Sunday 30th August have been published:

• Winners
• Full results

Congratulations to the winners.

Details of the 2010 Sussex Championships and other tournaments in the County shooting calendar will be published soon.

Eastbourne Archers third junior Western shoot on Monday 31st August saw five new county records and an overall win for Rebecca Davis of Newhaven AC.

The full results can be downloaded here.

Following on from his success at the County Championships the previous day, Jamie Cole of West Sussex Youth Archers stepped up to claim another winner’s medal at the Guildford AC Acorn shoot on Monday 31st August.

Jamie’s impressive – although maybe that should be amazing – run of scores continued with 1240 in the Junior Gents Compound competition.  This was another outstanding performance by one of the County’s most talented young archers, following hard on the heels of his 1250 in the SCAS Junior Inter Counties Championships on 16th August (in which the Sussex Junior Compound team stormed to a runaway victory.  Full results on the Kent Archery website) and 1248 in the County Championships.

Jamie’s success was mirrored in the Gents Compound by Steve Allen of Horsham, who prevailed in a tight finish with Malcolm Rees from the host club to take first place by six points with a score of 1242.

Gemma Underwood’s score of 1063 proved enough to win the Ladies Recurve by a margin of more than 100 points from Joyce Denny of Spelthorne Archers.

Also among the medals at Guildford after shooting at the County Championships was Pip Tucknott of Ditchling AC, whose score of 1051 secured second place in the Junior Gents Recurve and his second medal of the Bank Holiday weekend.

Full results from the shoot can be found on the Guildford Archery Club website.

This year’s Sussex Junior shoot proved to be another success with a healthy entry list and fine weather throughout the day (at least until a short downpour shortly before the results were announced).

Congratulations to the Archers Supreme, Bryony Pitman of Worthing AC (Junior Ladies Recurve), Thomas Hooper of Bognor Regis AC (Junior Gents Recurve) and Jamie Cole of West Sussex Youth Archers (Junior Gents Compound).  The full results from the day can be downloaded using this link.

Thanks to the shoot’s founder and organiser, Doreen Cannon, Lady Paramount Hannah Temple and judge Roger McMullan.  Thanks also to the members of Ditchling AC, who hosted the tournament for the third consecutive year and provided a scrumptious selection of refreshments.

Next year’s shoot will be held one week later on Saturday 24th July 2010.  Doreen and her helpers look forward to seing everyone again then.

The results from the Double FITA 70 held at Falmer School on Sunday 12th July have been published:

• Winners
• Full results

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who supported the shoot.

The results from the Saturday free shoot can also be seen by clicking this link.