The following are the dates for the Kent Archery Field days at Gorewood. See the KAF page https://kentarcheryassociation.co.uk/kaf/ for more details
Calendar
KAF-1 March 2 nd WA 12 T U/M
KAF-2 April 6 th WA 12 T Marked
KAF-3 May 4 th National Animal
KAF-4 July 6 th WA 24T Mixed
KAF-5 August 17 th WA 12T U/M
KAF-6 September 7 th WA 24T Mixed
Ashford Archers have a Monthly field shoot open to all AGB members, ever wanted to try Field Archery but dont know where to go? then Ashfords open days at the Priory is just for you. All inexperienced field archers will be paired with someone who knows what they are doing to guide you through the day.
for more information email us at enquiries@ashfordarchers.org.uk. Hope to see you soon at the Priory
This years event will be kindly hosted by Allington Castle Archers at their indoor venue of Lockmead in Maidstone. The event date is Sunday 16th February 2025. Closing date for this event if the 9th of February 2025.
Following the announcement from AGB the Fee Calculator and Direct membership forms are now available on the members page of the website.
This past weekend, 29th and 30th June 2024 270 archers travelled to Archery GB headquarters, at the National Sports Centre, Lillieshall, near Telford, Shropshire.
On the Saturday all archers shot a double 720 ranking round, ranking them for the individual Head to Head matches on the Sunday.
The Sunday introduced a new concept to the H2H matches, something known as Repechage. This format meant that if you lost your match you got a new score sheet and carried on shooting until you lost again when you repeated the process. There were a few teething issues but the format has great promise, in the view of the author, for keeping archers involved all day. This format also means that you end up with a full set of individual rankings from 1 to 64.
At the end of the day 2, two Kent archers found themselves in the Gold medal matches.
Cliff Gadd (Longbow) faced Brian Rosenberg in the mens longbow final. Cliff was victorious taking the match 6 – 2. Congratulation Cliff on yet another UK Masters win.
Ajay Scott faced Kia Thomas-Prause in the mens compound match with Kia taking the match 146 – 147. Ajay continues to go from strength to strength having recently taken part in the last World Cup stage in Antalya. Ajay is one to watch. Well done Ajay.
ArcheryGB may be publishing some highlights of the matches on YouTube. If these appear I will update the post.
Allington Castle archers are hosting a UK Record status with Rose Awards York/Hereford and Bristol tournament on Sunday 25th August at their ground at:
Westborough Primary School, Greenway, Maidstone, Kent, ME16 8TL
Further information and and entry can be obtained as a Word Document or as a PDF
KAA hope to be able to submit a team of junior archers for a county match to be held on the 8th June. Archers wishing to be considered for a place should submit their scores no later than the end of May 12th 2024.
Scores, with attached, signed score cards or results sheets, should be submitted via Golden Records. If you would like a Golden records account you can contact the county records officer via records@archerykent.org.uk.
The Kent Field champs to be held on Sunday the 11th August 2024 at Gorewood near Sittingbourne has been grant UK record status. The event will be a 24 mixed target round, with 12 marked distance targets and 12 unmarked distance targets.
Anyone wishing to try field archery in the run up to this event should see the KAF page at https://kentarcheryassociation.co.uk/kaf/
Entry to this event is only available via Sport 80 at https://agb.sport80.com/public/wizard/e/41214. The prospectus can be found here.
We have updated the tournament dates on the Home page. Currently we have tournament organisers for the 720 with H2H, a junior tournament, Kent Para champs and the Kent Field champs. We are looking for volunteers to help organise the County Championship on the 18th August and a 1440 with the date TBC.
You can find links to local club events on the clubs tournaments page https://kentarcheryassociation.co.uk/club-tournaments/
The committee of the Kent Field Archery Group have published the dates for its 2024 calendar. You can find all the details on the KAF page, linked here.
