Round Up: Scottish Tour - Stage 3 (Ayr)

Day 1  - Recurve and Longbow

First of all the Thank you to volunteers as without them these events would not happen. 

To our Judges – Frank, Andrew, Simon and Megan, a massive thank you for your hard work and patience. Thank you to Ayr Archery Club for their wonderful catering and keeping us going throughout the weekend.

Due to all our results volunteers being away this weekend we did not use Ianseo . Instead, Malcolm had been working hard on his own programme. 

Weather for the day was a little mixed. When the sun was out it was rather warm but the occasional shower brought us back to reality! 

The ranking round went without any hitches with archers battling it out for their  head-to-head placings.  

Top placed Male recurve archer, Joshua Phillips commanded a 16 point lead with and impressive 632 score. Stuart Padley continues his path to becoming a Paralympic archer by increasing his PB by 25 points. 

Male compound was contested between James Ross and Kyle Scott with only two points in it. James took the number 1 spot with 666. 

One of our visitors, Ben Ledwick took the Male longbow top spot by a sizeable 40 point lead and in the female longbow, Sandie continued her form becoming first with a staggering lead of 144 points. 

The afternoon was Head-to-Heads, which saw some one arrow shoot offs. The closest contended was between David Killin and William Anderson. Both archers shot a 6 but within millimeters of each other! 

• Male Recurve - Gold- Joshua Phillips, Silver – Antonios Katris, Bronze – Hayden Ledwick 

• Female Recurve   - Gold- Gillian Imrie, Silver –Catherine Coddington, Bronze – Kayleigh Ivanov 

• Male Longbow - Gold –Ben Ledwick, Silver –Thomas Champion, Bronze –Colin Hardgreaves 

• Female Longbow – Gold- Sandie Graham, Silver- Nikki Ledwick, Bronze- Cizzie McGuinness 

  
  

Day 2  - Compound and Barebow 

Well, we knew it would happen, here’s the rain!! 

Today we welcomed Gold medal Paralympian, Nathan Mcqueen, who is currently on a two week break from training with AGB. 

In the Male compound ranking round there were 3 Balbardie archers in the top 5. Top seed going through to the Head-2-heads though was East Kilbride Archer James Ross with an impressive 681. 

Robyn Geddes streaked ahead of the women Compound by a dazzling 97 points. 

In the Barebow men a special mention to Stephen Hanwright. Stephen Competes regularly as a Recurve archer, however when the tour was split into two days he decided to keep his daughter Rachel company on the second day by picking up barebow. 

Sandie Graham who is usually ladies number 1 Longbow, also took up the barebow challenge and finished the ranking round in a respectable 4^th place. 

Just as we started the Head to heads, the winds increased.  

• Male Barebow – Gold – Ben Ledwick, Silver – Craig Burns, Bronze – Frazer Brown 

• Female Barebow – Gold- Sharon Pisani, Silver – Marion Johnstone, Bronze – Nikki Ledwick 

• Male Compound – Gold – Nathan Mcqueen, Silver –James Ross, Bronze –Kyle Scott 

• Female Compound – Gold- Robyn Geddes, Silver-Caitlyn Orr, Bronze – Alex Chun 

  
  

Well done to all archers who took part and we look forward to the Stage 4 at Bathgate. Please get your entries in and we will see you there!! 

Check out photos from Andy Findlay here.