Top archers in action at Evesham competition

10:50am Monday 17th November 2008

THE Evesham club's annual FITA 18 Open tournament has become one of the leading events in the winter calendar and this year it once again attracted the country's top ranked archers.

Olympian Simon Terry, who was a double bronze medallist at Barcelona in 1992, secured the gents' recurve bow trophy from Jonathan Shales with a score of 582.

Fellow Olympians, Alison Williamson and Naomi Folkard, fought for the ladies' title with the former, who won an individual bronze in Athens four years ago, winning with 579 points to Folkard's 568.

The compound bow division saw Nicola Simpson reign supreme, closely followed by Rikki Bingham, Lucy Holderness and Andrea Gales.

Chris White blew away the opposition in the gents' contest with a total of 596 out of a possible 600.

It was also a good day for archers from the host club with Jo Orbell and Chris Norburn recording 528 and 535 respectively.

Sally Gilder notched up 255 and was second in the Under-14s and fifth junior girl overall.

This was also the first leg of the Garrington Cup for Worcestershire clubs and Evesham made an excellent start by taking first place and ten points thanks to the efforts of Orbell, Norburn, George Scott and Sebastian Marler. Redditch were second and Saints and Sinners third.

In the open team competition, Saints and Sinners were victorious with high-class scores from their trio of Sarah Neale, Joanne Lunt and Mike Lewis.