GB Archery

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GB Archery have announced the long list of athletes going forward to the second stage of selection for 2024 international squads.

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The women's team:

 

 

No real surprises - Pitman and Healey are world class (if a little inconsistent). No place for Jaspreet Sagoo though which is disappointing given she was part of the gold medal winning team from last year's European Games. 

 

Edited March 21, 2024 by Rafa Maciel

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The men's short list:

 

 

This is an absolute 'mare of a list - only 3 of the top 6 are on GB Archery's podium squad. James Woodgate and Monty Orton were both in the World Championship team last year (and were GB's highest placed qualifiers) but have failed to make the cut for selection. Think we can say goodbye to team quota for the men unfortunately. 

Edited March 21, 2024 by Rafa Maciel

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3 hours ago, Rafa Maciel said:

The men's short list:

 

 

This is an absolute 'mare of a list - only 3 of the top 6 are on GB Archery's podium squad. James Woodgate and Monty Orton were both in the World Championship team last year (and were GB's highest placed qualifiers) but have failed to make the cut for selection. Think we can say goodbye to team quota for the men unfortunately. 

Men's quota always seemed unlikely tbh. Frankly, just getting a male in to be sure of a mixed pair will be a relief.

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Final 4 for the international team selection confirmed:

 

 

Obviously, Pitman and Healey are world class - I think I am right in saying that they have both been world number 1 within the last couple of years - but Rogers is ranked 560 whilst Havers doesn't even have a world ranking from what I can see. I'm not sure that's a recipe for an Olympic quota but I hope to be proved wrong.

 

 

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Men's final 4:

 

 

Huston is world 49, Tom Hall is 54 with Alex Wise at 89. Despite Conor Hall being the top scorer in this qualifying competition, his world ranking is a lowly 234 - so not exactly the makings of a world beating team. Maybe this will be a case of the collective team being stronger than the sum of the individual members.

 

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Encouraging result for  men as they take silver behind Italy at the Kahraman Bagatir Spring Arrows Tournament in Turkey. Team was Conor Hall, Tom Hall and Alex Wise. 

 

In qualifying, they comfortably outscored the 1932 achieved by the team at last year's world championship. Indeed, if they had scored 1991 in Berlin they would have finished 3rd in qualifying. However, this was a much higher scoring event - France topped qualifying with 2041 - so GB's improvement was broadly in line with what the other teams achieved. 

 

En-route to the final, they took out Uzbekistan in the first round and defeated Egypt in the semi-finals. Probably their most impressive win was in the quarterfinal when they defeated top-seed France. 

 

In a reversal of usual fortunes, the women have had a pretty mediocre tournament. The women's team of Bryony Pitman, Penny Healey and Megan Havers finished n 9th place. GB finished qualifying in 6th place but, unlike most of their competition, GB were unable to outscore their qualifying from Berlin. They then lost their first-round match to Australia.

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Noticed there is no women's team for the European qualifiers starting soon. Hoping it's a mistake but does seem strange.

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2 hours ago, TeamGB said:

Noticed there is no women's team for the European qualifiers starting soon. Hoping it's a mistake but does seem strange.

No mistake - GB women cannot compete at the European Continental qualifier because Penny Healey won the individual quota at last year's European Games. 

 

The women's team will be competing for the team quota at the European Championships which take place next week. 

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Archery European Continental Qualifier:

 

Conor Hall scores 659 to finish qualifying in 7th place. Alex Wise ended up in 8th place with a score of 657. After a bit of a dodgy start, Tom Hall had a better second half, scoring 645 for 21st place (at one point he was down in 44th so this is a pretty good recovery)

 

Alex Wise and Conor Hall are advanced directly to the round of 16. Tom Hall will enter the competition in the round of 24.

Edited May 5, 2024 by Rafa Maciel