Evesham Junior Alfie Wilkes who is only Evesham Archery Club's Linda Haines has just returned from the European Master Games held at Lignano Sabbiadero, Italy with Silver and Gold medals. Competing along with thirteen other lady archers in her section, she finished in 2nd place in the qualifying round of 6 dozen arrows at 60 metres ending on a score of 598 behind Laura Gnocchi of Italy who had just scored a world record of 627.Linda then went into a Head to Head knockout competition. This consisted of indivual matches with points awarded based on outscoring her opponent, with each 3 arrows. In the quarter finals Linda won her match 6-4.
The semi's saw Linda take her next opponant out of the match winning 6- 0. Linda ended up in the gold medal match against the winner of the qualifying round Laura Gnocchi, she carried on shooting well winning the round with a well deserved 7-1 to take gold and became the European Master gold medalist

Evesham Archery Club Juniors Sally Gilder, Jack Chammbers-Young and Alfie Wilkes shot in the County of Worcester and West Midlands Championships held at Redhill Archery Club. All three shot extremely well on the day with them winning their respective sections.The three young archers became Worcestershire Champions.
Sally Gilder shooting a recurve bow in the junior ladies under 16's class scored 1196 in a Bristol 3 round and was crowned overall Worcestershire Junior Ladies Recurve Champion.
Jack Chambers-Young shooting a recurve bow in the Junior Gents under 14's section scored 1122 in the Bristol 3 round, secured the overall Worcestershire Junior Gents Recurve Champion.
Alfie Wilkes, who has only been shooting a compound bow for 3 months, scored 1162 in the under 12's Bristol 4 round in the junior Gents was crowned Worcestershire junior Gent Compound Champion.
All three were presented with their Trophies and medals by Eric Thomas who recently competed for Great Britain winning a Team Gold medal at the World Archery Para Championships for Paralympic Archers in Turin.

Evesham Junior Alfie Wilkes who is only 10 years old, and has only recently started started shooting with a compound bow came away with 3 Gold medals. Last week Alfie competed at Malvern Archers Tournament, along with his father Andy and Sarah Trout from Evesham Archery Club. This is only his 2nd competition that he has shot since taking up compound. Alfie was shooting a short junior national round and scored 598 out of a possible 648. This was good enough to secure 1st place in the junior gents compound section,1st in the County of Worcestershire novices, and 1st in the handicap section His father Andy ended up 5th in the gents compound competition scoring 564 in a long national round. Sarah Trout won a Gold medal for being 1st in the ladies compound competition scoring 580 in a National round.

Andy Wilkes and Bob Smith of Evesham Archery Club both shooting compound bows competed in the 22nd Grand Western Wiltshire F.I.T.A Star, held at Supermarine Sports Club Swindon, Wiltshire. Shooting a Gents FITA round Andy Wilkes came away with the bonze medal coming 3rd with a score of 1289 a personal best, and Bob Smith came 11th with 1169.

Also shooting on the weekend veteran archer Ian Trout came 6th with 750 out of a maximum of 810, at Stourbridge Company of Archers annual Rats Ashes American round.

Recurve archer Joann Lunt was selected to shoot for England in the Euro Nations competition which this year was held at Andover. The England team was victorious with a combined score of 15,611 to Scotland's 15,350.

Over the last two weeks members from EAC have helped in the demolition of our aging and dilapidated club house. A "clear the contents" evening was held on a club night and over the last weekend the outer shell was knocked with much gusto. The hard hard unfortunately doesn't stop there as we now need to make good a suitable base for the new club house. This will be based on a vandal proof container style cabin with modern fixtures inside.

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On Sunday July 3rd Rehill archers hosted their Jubilee shoot celebrating 40 years of the club. Five EAC archers took part shooting Albions, St Georges or junior Windsor rounds. Andy Wilkes lead the EAC charge with a straight score of 890 closely followed by Linda Haines scoring 841. Bob Smith & Ian trout showed good form, scoring 814 & 780 respectively. Andy Wilkes son, Alfie put in a creditable score of 688; shooting compound competitively for the first time and coming second in the handicap adjusted scores !
Although we put up a brave fight we were beaten by Redhills 9110 to our 8967. The post shoot barbecue was enjoyed by one and all.

The Staffordshire Junior Archery Outdoor Fita shoot was held on the 12th of June at South Staffordshire College, Penkidge,Stafford. Shooting in heavy rain many of the archers retired throughout the day, but Evesham Junior archer Sally Gilder battled on to win the Highest Visiting Junior Ladies recurve Trophy shooting a Lady's Cadet FITA with a score of 1040.

The Droitwich Archers summer tournament was held on the 26th of June at Droitwich Rugby club, Andy Wilkes and Ian Trout of Evesham Archery Club both shooting compound bows were in fine form shooting an Albion round. Andy Wilkes achieved 3rd place with a score of 914 out of a possible 972, whilst Ian Trout was 7th with 814. Both archers had also been shooting the previous week in the annual match between Evesham Archery Club and Malvern Archery Club. The shoot this year was hosted by Evesham and has been a annual event for the last 46 years, the two clubs compete for the Simon De Montfort Trophy. Seventeen members of Evesham and fourteen from Malvern shot the match. The team scores this year were Evesham 13,736 to Malverns 13,318 meaning a fairly comfortable win for Evesham, due in a large part to the very high handicap scores of Junior Archer Harriet Fletcher, who has only been shooting for 2 months, and her father Laurence who has been shooting for just under a year.

On bank holiday Monday Andy Wilkes and Bob Smith were both shooting in a FITA STAR competition held at Meriden Archery Club.
Both shooting compound bows shot extremely well, although the weather was determined to hamper the competition which started at 8.30am in steady rain. Shooting continued through to 6.30 in the evening, with many of the archers retiring at lunch because of the conditions.
With both archers being soaked to the skin at the end each achieved personal bests. Bob Smith shot a score of 1208 out of a possible 1440, but County Archer Andy Wilkes improved on his previous FITA scores and shot 1296.

Sally Gilder shooting a recurve bow won the Junior under 16s round at Leamington and Midland Counties 160th Annual Archery meeting. Saturday saw her achieve a personal best of 1132 and combined with Sundays score of 1115 she ended on 2247, being 400 points higher than her nearest rival. Meanwhile other Evesham archers shooting on single rounds were Andy Wilkes, Bob Smith, Mike Gilder and Sue Gilder. With winds buffeting the archers around causing all the archers problems, Andy Wilkes scored 1076 and came 2nd with Bob Smith 5th with 1017. Mike Gilder shooting recurve came 7th in the senior York round, with Sue Gilder coming 3rd with 802 in the senior lady recurve single day Hereford. Meanwhile Joann Lunt of Evesham Archery Club, shooting at Lilleshall National Sports Centre, Shropshire, in the UK Masters Fita and Head to Head, came a creditable 17th with 1164 out of a top class competition.