Dover - So far

[shambusia]

Well...pretty good start for the brits on home turf.
Apologies if i miss anyone;s score i should have put in.
After Morning 72 (long distances)

Gents Recurve
Simon Terry - 2nd on 643
Laurence Godfrey - 9th on 637
Alan Wills - 14th on 633
Thomas Barber - 31st on 609
Micheal Peart - 35th on 605
Andrew Callaway - 38th on 601
Team Placed 2nd behind Italy

Ladies Recurve
Naomi Folkard - 8th on 654
Alison Williamson - 16th on 646
Charlotte Burgess - 26th on 632
Lana Needham - 30th on 625
Emma Downie - 37th on 613
Amy Oliver - 39th on 612
Team Placed 6th

Mens Compound
Chris White - 2nd on 689
Liam Grimwood - 7th on 682
Mark Franklin - 16th on 670
Neil Wakelin - 17th on 670
James Forbes - 19th on 668
Adam Shaw DNS
Team Placed 2nd

Ladies Compound
Nickly Hunt - 11th on 672
Nichola Simpson - 12th on 672
Stephanie Crang - 15th on 670
Emma Parker - 18th on 662
Danielle Brown - 23rd on 656

I also noticed Erika is in 17th on 664

Sounds like it's very interesting down there.

(it's taken me so long to write this out they probably finished the 50m by now!!!)

[rohenwto]

Results will apparently be available from here, but not yet

METEKSAN ARCHERY WORLD CUP 2007 - Results

[radsbow]

Go here as they are all ready up....

METEKSAN ARCHERY WORLD CUP / COUPE DU MONDE DE TIR A L'ARC

Click on results.

[its my party and]

Some fantastic scores there Alan going well with 1315 and Simon in Second Place. And the recurve team are in Second 32 points behind the Italians.
Chris White nearly hit 1400 only 2 points short and the team are in Second place only 18 points behind the leaders USA. The ladies compound are all together in 15th 16th and 17th and are lying in 4th place just 15 points behind 2nd place.
Charlotte Naomi and Alison in the Recurve team are in 6th place with Naomi leading the way with 1328 in 6th place.
Come on TEAM GB looking good at the moment.

[GreenSteve]

here`s some photo`s for those who couldn`t make it taken with my pokey little digi cam
(not much to see though spectators where at the far end of the ladies line, the mens shooting line was way of in the distance past the curvature of the Earth)

AWC Photos

[timfatheroftom]

Having been to the qualification round, all I can say is that "the ground was good, the weather was good, some scores were good & the company I was with was good, but OH DEAR who set up the viewing for the spectators? absolutley awfull!, no access behind the shooting line, no access to rolling scores, it was bad enough trying to follow gents recurve but the gents compound would have been approx.100mts away from viewing area.
If anybody is going, take a VERY GOOD scope you willneed it!

I was told that the finals will be closer to the seating area, but not for the initial H2H's, so as a spectacle to attract people into the sport, Oh dear what a missed opportunity!
If you intended going to see some of the best archers in the world, you will see them , but they will be a very long way away!

If anybody has a different opinion on this I would be pleased to hear it and why!

[mwickwar]

Originally Posted by timfatheroftom

Having been to the qualification round, all I can say is that "the ground was good, the weather was good, some scores were good & the company I was with was good, but OH DEAR who set up the viewing for the spectators? absolutley awfull!, no access behind the shooting line, no access to rolling scores, it was bad enough trying to follow gents recurve but the gents compound would have been approx.100mts away from viewing area.
If anybody is going, take a VERY GOOD scope you willneed it!

I was told that the finals will be closer to the seating area, but not for the initial H2H's, so as a spectacle to attract people into the sport, Oh dear what a missed opportunity!
If you intended going to see some of the best archers in the world, you will see them , but they will be a very long way away!

If anybody has a different opinion on this I would be pleased to hear it and why!

When we were setting up the targets I did ask someone where the spectators would go, as it suddenly dawned on me that the targets seemed to be taking up pretty much the whole field!

Then again I'm not sure, with the shape of the field, how they could have done it much differently, except for possibly putting stands at either end of the field...

But hey, any publicity is good publicity, eh?

[Murray]

Hmm that's pretty awful. Surely they could have picked a venue with better opportunities for spectators. Oh well. Don't suppose we could have expected much else, glad I didn't bother travelling all that way to watch.

[PaulT]

Looks like Simon and Alan have held form from the World Champs and are facing each other in the Semis again.

[Murray]

Yeah - bad planning or what?