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Archery New Zealand is an Incorporated Society and is the governing body of Target Archery in New Zealand. It is affiliated to FITA (Federation Internationale de Tir a l'Arc), Oceania Archery Association and the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association. Archery New Zealand holds annual National Championships for Target, Field, Clout and Indoor Archery and has also hosted the Oceania Regional Championships.
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2010 - RESULTS
11 Dec 2009
New Archery NZ Ranking System
At the recent Archery New Zealand Board meeting, a new archer National Ranking scheme was proposed. This will start immediately, with the 2009/2010 outdoor season. This announcement briefly describes the new scheme.
Schedule for the Sky Sport programme "All in the Games" - December 2009
16/12/2009 20:00 SKY Sport 1 9
16/12/2009 23:00 SKY Sport 2 9
17/12/2009 18:00 SKY Sport 3 9
17/12/2009 21:00 SKY Sport 1 9
18/12/2009 00:30 SKY Sport 1 9
18/12/2009 18:30 SKY Sport 3 9
Set out above are the times that archery (among other things) will be shown on this programme “All in the Games”.
This episode is about the women’s compound team’s winning match in Antalya. There will be others including some field shooting and an interview with Bernie Fraser.
Some of you may have caught the interview with Steve Clifton back in November.
Nov 16 2009
Archers Win SPARC Funding
Archery New Zealand is delighted with the news that SPARC has invested $100,000 to help the men’s and women’s compound teams prepare for the Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi in October 2010.
“The Board of Archery New Zealand set high standards for those seeking nomination for the Commonwealth Games. The archers have risen to the challenge, training long hours, and raising funds to pay their own expenses in order to gain the experience necessary and they have achieved significant success along the way,” said President Colin Teasdale.
“Highlights of 2009 were the women’s compound team winning the gold medal at the 3rd round of the World Cup in Antalya, Turkey, the men’s compound team winning silver at the 4th round of the World Cup in Shanghai, China and the outstanding achievement of Stephen Clifton winning the individual men’s compound bronze medal at the World Championships held recently in Ulsan, Korea.
“Their hard work and successes have been recognised by SPARC and the Board will meet shortly to plan the best use of the funding to give those selected the best opportunity of winning medals in the individual and teams events in Delhi,” concluded Colin Teasdale.
2009 World Championships, Ulsan
First Ever World Championship Medal for New Zealand
09 September 2009
Today in Ulsan, Korea New Zealand archery history was made when Stephen Clifton from Auckland won the Bronze medal in the men’s compound division.
The semi final match in the morning was very tough. Steve was up against the number one seed, Reo Wilde from USA, a former world champion and someone shooting at the top of his form.
Reo shot first and the arrows were 10-10-10 to Steve’s 9-9-10.
In all the American dropped only one point scoring 119 from a possible 120. Steve had a very good effort but against that kind of shooting it is difficult to win.
However Steve’s final 3 arrows were 10-10-10 and that set him up for the Bronze medal match against Duo of Spain.
Steve shot first with a 10 which was matched by the Spaniard. But after 3 arrows Steve was 2 points behind. That spurred him to greater efforts and as he shot 10s the Spaniard shot an 8 and also a 9. Steve’s final end of 10-10-10 clinched the match 117-114.
The medal ceremony later in the day was a great thrill to everyone and any excess baggage payment will be worth it!
Report Day 1 | Report Day 2 | Report Day 3 | Report Day 4 | Report Day 5 | FINAL SUMMARY
FITA Announces Important Changes to JAMA Age Groupings
More info here
NZ 67th National Archery Championships - Hamilton - 2 - 8 Jan 2010
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LATEST NEWS FROM WORLD CUP STAGE 4 IN SHANGHAI...
NZ placed second in Mens Compound Teams Final
09 August 2009
The NZ Mens Compound Team of Stephen Clifton, Shaun Teasdale and Tony Waddick competed for gold in this afternoon's World Cup Stage 4 Finals in Shanghai.
Leading 57-54 after the first round, the Kiwis shot well, maintaining a 1 point lead after 3 ends. The balance changed in the final end with Mexico outscoring NZ 56-54 to take first place with the final score at 222-221!
Congratulations to Shaun, Stephen and Tony on a great performance - fantastic to see New Zealand archery well represented again on the World Cup circuit.
YOUTH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
27 July 2009 - SCENES FROM THE 2009 YOUTH WORLD CHAMPS (VIDEO LINK)
FINAL PLACINGS
18 July 2009
Following her outstanding work to reach the quarter finals in her first overseas international event, Rachel Hughes completed the dream outing by finishing 8th out of 32 in the World and FIRST in the Commonwealth for the cadet women's compound division. A fantastic achievement and all archers in New Zealand congratulate her.
In the junior men's compound event Yiftach Swery finished 12th out of 43 in the world and 2nd in the Commonwealth. Another great result for this talented young archer.
In the cadet men's compound Jarrod Smythe was 37th from 45 in the world and 16th in the Commonwealth. We hope his shoulder injury heals quickly.
Earlier news...
Rachel Hughes beats Top Seed to gain 1/4 Finals entry
Following her New Zealand record FITA score in the Cadet Women’s Compound qualification round, Rachel Hughes continued to impress everyone at the Youth World Championships in Utah.
In the match play, not content with beating the more highly seeded Russian, Aleksandra Vald 113-112, Rachel, seeded 16 of 32 archers, then went on to beat the no. 1 seed Kailey Johnston from USA 112-110.
Rachel went on to meet the no. 8 seed, Jody Vermeulen (Ned) in the quarter finals, and was unfortunately defeated 114-111 despite a spirited peformance.
In the Cadet Men’s Compound Jarrod Smythe was seeded 36 out of 45 with a 1309 FITA. Unfortunately he lost 111-114 to the 29th seed from Venezuala. It seems that Jarrod has picked up a shoulder injury which has detracted from his performance.
The 4th place getter in the Cadet Men’s Compound in 2008, Yiftach Swery was listed as one of the favourites going into the Junior Men’s Compound competition.
He returned a 1338 FITA which seeded him 17th out of 43 archers. Following a bye in the 1/32 round he beat the Canadian 16th seed 113-110. Unfortunately Yiftach could not emulate Rachel’s result and lost to the no. 1 seed from USA Ben Cleland.
Latest Action and Results from Youth World Champs available HERE
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Rachel Hughes, competing in the Cadet Women's Compound division, has shot a New Zealand record of 1348. This easily surpasses her record of 1339 created earlier this year in Rotorua.
This is an outstanding achievement by Rachel, shooting in her first overseas tournament and in temperatures in excess of 33 degrees Celsius.
Archery New Zealand congratulates Rachel on this excellent start to her international career and wishes her and colleagues, Yiftach Swery and Jarrod Smythe every success in the match play.
Latest Action and Results from Youth World Champs available HERE
New Zealand Team for the Easton Australian Open Tournament
The Board is very pleased to announce the team for the Easton Australian Open to be held at Labour Weekend. This is the largest team we have fielded for many years and still we could not select everyone who applied. New Zealand will enter a team in the compound match play men and women and in the men’s recurve team event as well as the individual events.
Congratulations to the successful archers.
Men's Compound
Stephen Clifton
Trevor Irvine
Shaun Teasdale
Tony Waddick
Women's Compound
Alison Bateman
Mandy McGregor
Anne Mitchell
Barbara Scott
Men's Recurve
Stephen Florence
Trevor Kennerson
Warren Kertell
Rob Peterson
Women's Recurve
Elizabeth Andrew
Please note the 3 persons to form the entries in the respective team events will be selected by management as close to the event as possible.
The team management will be announced in the near future.
Travel and accommodation for the team will be made via Archery New Zealand.
WORLD CUP 4TH ROUND SHANGHAI
Once again we will be entering teams in the men’s and women’s compound event as well as the individual events. Watch the FITA web site for progress 4-9 August.
Congratulations to:
Anne Mitchell, Mandy McGregor, Barbara Scott
Shaun Teasdale, Steve Clifton, Tony Waddick
11 Dec 2009
New Archery NZ Ranking System
At the recent Archery New Zealand Board meeting, a new archer National Ranking scheme was proposed. This will start immediately, with the 2009/2010 outdoor season. This announcement briefly describes the new scheme.