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Portugal
2007
Hi Ho -
it's a triple silver medal success for GB youngsters
in Portugal
2nd July 2007
By Peter Jones
British juniors have won two individual
silver medals at the European Archery Championships
in Portugal, and a silver in the team tournaments!
Tom Barber finished second in the
men's recurve cadet championship, while teammate Matthew
Arnold was runner-up in the men's junior compound
event.
Barber lost in his final to Tse-Darzhi
Rygzenov of Russia by 108 points to 106, and despite
the disappointment of slipping up on the last lap,
it was a terrific performance and a thrilling run
to the final. After a bye in the first round of the
head-to-heads, he then saw off Simeon Schaaf of Germany,
Aurelien Pela of France, Ukraine's Yevhen Marchenko
and finally another French youngster, Victor Bresson,
in the semis, before losing to Rygzenov in the final.
Arnold was the only British survivor
from the opening head-to-head round, beating local
lad Diogo Oliveira of Portuga.Lasse Boee of Finland
was Arnold's next victim, followed by Pietro Greco
of Italy, a win that set up a semi final match against
Gregoire Fumeaux of Switzerland - with Arnold emerging
triumphant 112-111. It set up a gold medal showdown
with Turkey's Gokhan Ates, with the British finalist
losing out by a point this time - Ates prevailling
111-110.
In the team championship, there
was a silver for the trio of Matt Rudge, Jake Bunce
and Matt Gardner, who lost out to Denmark in the final
of their tournament.
Not surprisingly, the medal winners
earned high praise from Team GB Performance Manager
Barry Eley. "I am thrilled to bits for both lads
in the individuals, that they've gone out to a major
international championship and come home with medals
- they've done fantastically well, and I speak for
everyone when I say we're really proud of them.
"And what a fantastic performance
in the team event too - a silver for the compound
cadets was a great performance, and the lads should
justifiably be as proud of themselves as we all are
of them!
"But there were some very
good performances throughout our squad, everyone did
very well, and it is nice to know there is a great
depth of talent emerging among our young archers.
It all bodes very well for the future, and I congratulate
everyone who represented Britain out in Portugal."
Results: Individual Championships
- Recurve Junior Men: 22 Edward Spouge, 37 Glen Croft,
47 John Guiton; Recurve Cadet Men: SILVER MEDAL: Tom
Barber, 12th Alec Wheeler, 19th James Mortlake; Compound
Junior Men: SILVER MEDAL: Matthew Arnold, 17th George
Fenton, 19th Tapani Kalmaru; Compound Cadet Men: 9th
Jake Bunce, 14th Matt Rudge, 21st Matt Gardner; Recurve
Cadet Women: 14th Sarah Smith; Recurve Junior Women:
34th Janesta Smith; Compound Cadet Women: 10th Kirsty
Davies, 11th Rosie Smith. Team Tournaments - Recurve
Cadet Men: GB 6th, Recurve Junior Men, GB 13th; Compound
Cadet Men, GB SILVER MEDAL; Compound Junior Men, GB
8th;
Cyprus 2007
On the 13th May I joined the Great Britain Junior
Archery team to travel to Cyprus to participate in
the 1st leg of the Europa Cup.
We arrived in Cyprus after a 4 hour flight and arrived
at the hotel later that day only to have time to sort
out our luggage and have a dip in the pool !
Monday morning we had some practise at the field and
then in the afternoon, a treat, we went to the beach
and then back to the hotel pool !!
Tuesday we were at the practise field again and Wednesday
was official practise day but at the stadium this
time.
Thursday, the competition starts, I shot in the morning
as my category is Gents Cadet Compound shooting a
60M FITA which is 6 dozen arrows all at 60 metres.
I scored 679 and was ranked 6th out of a total of
13 archers.
Friday was Head to Head matches, it is decided by
12 arrow match at 60 metres and the winner carries
on to the next round. Being ranked 6th the day before
I came up against Stefanos Sokratous from Cyprus who
had ranked 11th the day before. I won this match scoring
115 out of a maximum of 120 against his 96.
My second match was now against Marc Remie from the
Netherlands who had ranked 3rd the day before. After
our 12 arrow match we had drawn 112 each so it would
be decided on a 1 arrow shoot off, which like sudden
death the best arrow wins ! We had both shot a 9 and
therefore had to repeat the arrow shoot off for a
second time, we both shot a 9 again......the third
arrow shoot off would be decided on who was closest
to the middle of the target where he beat me by approximately
6 cm !!!!
I thoroughly enjoyed the trip and as always learning
so much from the experience.
Jake Bunce
SILVER MEDAL FOR JAKE IN EURONATIONS!
2006
While many of us were concentrating
on the Cleve FITA weekend, Jake headed north to Leicester
to represent England in this years' Euronations. His
first national selection didn't faze him during the
2-day event, in which he won the silver medal in the
individual event.
Congratulations to Jake and
good luck in Prague when you represent Great Britain
in the second leg of the European Cup between 6-13
August! Finally, a recent picture to show - Jake shooting
at Euronations in new all white England kit!
Mexico 2006
I flew out to Mexico on Friday
13th October to shoot at the World Junior Championships
representing Great Britain.
The luggage got lost and we had no clean clothes to
wear or equipment. At the unofficial practice on Saturday
we got our accreditations and we could get on to the
field so the Head Coach told us to go and stand on the
line to shoot imaginary replicas of our bows. We even
had to go up and retrieve our arrows from the target.
Sunday was the official practice and our luggage had
arrived by then!!
We started the qualifying round on the Monday with our
long distances. I scored 290 for 70m & 318 for 60m
finishing 29th out of 37.
Tuesday we finished the Metric 1, with the short distances.
I scored 310 for 50m & 335 for 30m, still finishing
29th out of 37.
Wednesday was the individual elimination round where
there were byes and I had to shoot in the first round
where I knocked out seed 36. I went through to the last
32 where I got knocked out by the eventual winner by
3 points. I eventually finished 27th.
We shot Team Eliminations on Thursday where we beat
India but then got knocked out by the Australians who
shot 232 out of a maximum of 240 this consisted of 2
dozen arrows being shot by three archers shooting 2
arrows each per end at 60m. Our team finished 5th.
In Mexico I learnt a lot of lessons to improve the way
I shoot, this includes concentration levels and the
rate and consistency in which I shoot. I had great fun
in the hotel & pool when not shooting and in the
main town and shops where there was a great atmosphere
and everyone got on well. I was pleased with my results
as I was nervous and the weather conditions were bad.
Jake Bunce
Jake shot 1253 Metric 1 &
qualified 29th in the Cadet rounds in Mexico.
After the
Head to Head rounds Jake was placed 27th position
out of 37. He was quite pleased with the result. It
has been really windy over there all the time they
have been shooting !!
The three Compound Cadet Boys came 5th in the Team
event yesterday.
The hotel they have been staying has a pool on the
roof top and he played water polo one afternoon with
the rest of the team, so sounds like he has been enjoying
himself too !!
National Records Claimed
| Date |
Round |
Score |
| 17th & 18th
April 2004 |
10M (80cm face) |
355 |
| 5th June 2004 |
30M (122cm face) |
338 |
| 6th June 2004 |
30M (122cm face) |
340 |
| 6th June 2004 |
10M (80cm face) |
357 |
| 5th June 2004 |
Metric 4 |
1349 |
| 6th June 2004 |
Metric 4 |
1372 |
| 5th & 6th
June 2004 |
Double Metric
4 |
2721 |
| 2nd July 2005 |
20M (80cm face) |
350 |
| 14th May 2006 |
Bristol 3 |
1288 |
| 3rd June 2006 |
20M (80cm face) |
351 |
| 4th June 2006 |
20M (80cm face) |
356 |
| 4th June 2006 |
40M (122cm face) |
349 |
| 3rd June 2006 |
Metric 3 |
1356 |
| 4th June 2006 |
Metric 3 |
1367 |
| 3rd & 4th
June 2006 |
Double Metric
3 |
2723 |
Details
Date of Birth: 25 JUNE 1992
Home Town: Bristol
Country of Birth: Great Britain |
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Profile |
Training:
Cleve Archers Bristol
Coaches Name: Gary Bunce
Highest Score
Gents FITA: 1293
Ladies FITA: 1329
Metric 2: 1285
Metric 3: 1367
90M (122 cm): 298
70M (122 cm): 319
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