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Euronations 2005

Three members of North Wales were picked to represent Wales in the annual Euro-nations Tournament.

Rebecca Dawson, Andrea and Patrick Beckett all had sufficiently high scores to be included. The tournament has held at Bishop's Stortford, England this year and will be held somewhere in Wales in 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

Welsh Team 'preparing for the big day'

The weather was lovely on the journey down, and the NWAS contingent of the WAA team arrived at the hotel around mid-day and immediately went to the field to get some practice. Unfortunately the target party were also getting the practice in ... in setting up the field. After about 3 hours of hard practice time (see above picture) the team had finished their practice. With sun bathing skills perfected and the other teams on field, we thought it was about time we actually got our bows out and shoot a few arrows.

Saturday came and this was it. The Tournament.

A cold and wet day, but not too much wind. Several members of the team managed to put in good performances. Andrea Beckett earned her FITA 1200 badge and got a Six Gold end at 70m.

At the end Wales came third overall after England and Scotland.

We won't go into the prize giving or the banquet apart for to say that the KFC Banquet Bucket would have been a better choice!

 

 

 

Rebecca Dawson enjoying the shoot .. in her funny hat

County Match 2006

This was held at the main North Wales tournament ground at Corus Deeside Archery Club.

The match was between Lancashire, North Wales and Shropshire, and is normally held in April each year. Due to problems with ground availability it was postponed until the 9th July.

Regretably North Wales was unable to field a full team. We were missing 3 Recurve Archers and a Compound archer. In fact we had to convert one of our Recurve gentlemen to compound just to prevent a disqualification on the grounds of not fielding a competitive team.

Need to say, with a substantial reduced team North Wales came last in all three classes.

                              1st                    2nd                    3rd

Recurve           Lancashire        Shropshire        North Wales

Compound      Lancashire        Shropshire        North Wales

Longbow         Lancashire        Shropshire        North Wales

North Wales Archery Society

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