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