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Our Paralympic Archers… John Stubbs MBE Warrington

Men’s compound (Born, 12 July 1965) John is the defending Paralympic Games champion. Among many other championships John has won around the world, he was World Champion in 2005, and the World Championship silver medallist in 2011.

Richard Hennahane Yorkshire

Men’s compound (Born, 2 January 1981) Richard won a gold medal at his first ever World Championship tournament, in Turin 2011, as a member of the men’s recurve team with John Stubbs and Eric Thomas. He was 7th in the individual event.

Kenny Allen - Norfolk

Phil Bottomley Bradford

Danielle Brown Telford

Sharon Vennard Northern Ireland

Paul Browne Hertford

Pippa Britton Newport ( South Wales)

Leigh Walmsley Warrington

Men’s recurve (Born, 4 November 1958) Phil represented The Netherlands in his early days as an international archer, because he both lived and worked there. But his heart belonged in the UK, and in 2009 he joined the GB squad. Among recent achievements, he won a silver medal at the Stoke Mandeville Invitational tournament in 2011.

Men’s recurve W2 (Born, 11 April 1961) Paul made an immediate impact on the international squad - in his first year as an international, he made it to the Beijing Paralympic Games, where he finished 9th. Two years later, he won a gold medal at the European Championships, and is now an established - and accomplished - member of the GB Para squad.

Women’s compound (Born, 10 April 1988) Dani is the defending Paralympic Games champion. She is also a three time World Champion. In 2010 Dani made headlines when she became the first Para athlete to compete for England at the Commonwealth Games: she won a team gold medal, and reached the quarterfinals of the individual tournament.

Women’s compound (Born, 27 May 1963)

Pippa is a well established international archer, who has won 2 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals at the World Championship tournaments she has been to since 2001.

Women’s recurve (Born, 17 September 1961) Sharon won gold medals at international events in the Czech Republic and the Stoke Mandeville Invitational Tournament in 2011, as a member of the ladies recurve team.

Women’s recurve (Born, 1 May 1969) Leigh won a bronze medal at her first international event, the Stoke Mandeville Invitational.

She was 5th at the Beijing Games.

Men’s recurve (Born, 8 October 1969) This will be Kenny’s first Paralympic Games, but over the past three years he has become an international regular. He was: 6th at the World Championships, 2011.

John Cavanagh London

Men’s compound W1 (Born, 21 July 1956)

Murray Elliot - Scotland Men’s recurve (Born, 15 October 1961)

This is Murray’s first Paralympic Games, but he is an established member of the GB squad. His achievements so far include a gold medal at the Stoke Mandeville Invitational, 2011.

This will be JC’s fourth Paralympic Games, and of the three he’s been to so far, he has won a medal at two of them: a gold in Athens 2004, and a silver in Beijing 2008. John has been an international archer for 16 years.

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Mel Clarke Worcester

Women’s compound (Born, 2 September 1982) Mel, who was one of the early Olympic Torch Bearers when it passed through Worcester in May, won the World Championship title in 2005. She was the bronze medallist at the Beijing Paralympics in 2008.

Kate Murray Borders (Scotland)

Women’s recurve W1 (Born, 30 August 1948) Kate was a bronze medallist at the 2007 World Championships, and won a silver medal in the women’s recurve team tournament. She was born in Woolwich - just around the corner from where this year’s Paralympic Games take place at the Royal Artillery Barracks!

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The Paralympic Archery tournament takes place at the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, between 30 August and 5 September.

The Paralympic Archery disciplines are: Men

Individual Compound Individual Compound Individual Recurve Individual Recurve Team Recurve

W1 Open W1/2 Standing Open

Women

Open W1/2 Standing Open

Individual Compound Individual Recurve Individual Recurve Team Recurve

Paralympic Archery Classification The sport is open to athletes with a physical disability (including spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, amputee…) in three functional classes (Open, Standing and Wheelchair). It compromises of individual and team events, standing and wheelchair competitions, as well as events for visually impaired. There are three classes: W1 for those with disability in arms and legs, W2 for those with a disability in the legs, and “Standing” / “Open”.

The Paralympic Archery Schedule 30 August

3 September

1000: 1030: 1200: 1230:

1500: semi-finals, men’s individual compound, W1 1530: semi-finals, men’s individual compound, open 1600: finals, men’s individual compound, W1 1615: finals, men’s individual compound, open

Qualification in all disciplines

1000: semi-finals, men’s individual recurve, W1/2 1030: semi-finals, men’s individual recurve, standing 1100: finals, men’s individual recurve, W1/2 1115: finals, men’s individual recurve, standing

31 August

Round of 32, men’s individual recurve W1/2 Round of 32, women’s individual recurve W1/2 Round of 16, men’s individual recurve W1/2 Round of 16, women’s individual recurve W1/2

1500: Round of 32, men’s individual compound, open 1630: Round of 16, men’s individual compound W1/2 1700: Round of 16, men’s individual compound, open 1730: Round of 16, women’s individual compound, open

1 September

1000: Round of 32, men’s individual recurve standing 1030: Round of 32, women’s individual recurve standing 1130: Round of 16, women’s individual recurve standing 1200: Round of 16, men’s individual recurve standing 1500: quarter-finals, women’s individual recurve, W1/2 1530: quarter-finals, men’s individual recurve, W1/2 1600: quarter-finals: men’s individual compound, W1

2 September

There’ll be 140 archers taking part, 88 men and 52 women

1000: quarter-finals: Women’s individual recurve, standing 1030: quarter-finals: Men’s individual recurve standing

They will be competing for medals in 7 individual events, and 2 team tournaments

1500: quarter-finals: Women’s individual compound, open 1530: quarter-finals: men’s individual compound, open

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4 September

1000: semi-finals, women’s individual recurve, W1/2 1030: semi-finals, women’s individual recurve, standing 1100: finals, women’s individual recurve, W1/2 1115: finals, women’s individual recurve, standing 1515: semi-finals, women’s individual compound, W1 1600: finals, women’s individual compound, W1

5 September

1000: quarter-finals, women’s team recurve open 1100: quarter-finals, men’s team recurve open 1400: semi-finals, women’s team recurve open 1500: semi-finals, men’s team recurve open 1600: finals, women’s team recurve open 1700: finals, men’s team recurve open

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Archery at the Paralympics:

The History Archery opened the programme of the first International Games for the Disabled at Stoke Mandeville in 1948 - the forerunner of the Paralympic Games.

The first archery Paralympic tournament was at Rome in 1960 - GB won 10 medals! Archer Margaret Maughan won GB’s first ever Paralympic gold medal. Just a year after she had taken up archery, following a car crash that left her paralysed from the waist down! GB has won 11 Paralympic gold medals, 19 silver and 20 bronze - 50 medals in all! GB will be represented by 13 archers at this year’s Paralympic Games, a record number. 11 GB archers went to Beijing in 2008. Kathy Critchlow-Smith was among those 11 - her fifth Paralympic Games. She has now retired.

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GB’s record at the Paralympics Beijing 2008 (2 golds, 1 silver, 1 bronze)

Men Gold: John Stubbs, men’s compound Silver: John Cavanagh, men’s W1 compound Women Gold: Dani Brown, women’s compound Bronze: Mel Clarke, women’s compound

GB finished second in the medals table, behind host nation China (2 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze) Danielle Brown was one of the GB gold medallists at Beijing. Dani is also the reigning women’s compound world champion - indeed she has won the gold medal at the last three world championships! Dani beat Chieko Kamiya of Japan in the women’s compound gold medal match. Mel Clarke won the bronze medal in the women’s compound tournament. John Stubbs, in men’s compound, was GB’s other Beijing gold medal winner. He beat Alberto Simonelli of Italy in the final. Switzerland’s Philippe Horner took the bronze medal. Horner is the current world champion, and beat John in the gold medal match at the Paralympic archery test event at the Royal Artillery Barracks. John Cavanagh completed the Beijing medal winners. He took silver in the men’s compound W1, losing to David Drahonisky of the Czech Republic in the final.

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Athens 2004 (2 golds)

Men Gold: John Cavanagh, who beat Anders Groenberg of Sweden in the men’s comound W1 final. Women Team Gold: Women’s Open Team Event, thanks to Anita Chapman, Kathy Smith and Margaret Parker, beat Italy’s Paola Fantato, Sandra Truccolo and Anna Menconi to gain revenge for losing the final at Sydney four years earlier.

Sydney 2000 (1 gold, 2 silver)

Women Gold: Anita Chapman beat Malgorzata Olejnik of Poland in the Women’s Open Standing (reversing the result at the 1996 Games!) Silver: Kathy Smith, Women’s Individual W1/2 - beaten by Paola Fantato of Italy. Team silver: Smith, Anita Chapman and Jane White, beaten by Fantato, Truccolo and Menconi in the Women’s Open Team Tournament.

Atlanta 1996 (1 silver, 1 bronze)

Women Silver: Anita Chapman won an individual silver medal in the Women’s Individual Standing, losing to Olejnik of Poland. Team bronze: Smith, Chapman and Rebecca Gale in the Women’s Open Team Tournament.

Seoul 1988 (2 golds)

Women Gold: Karen Watts beat Elli Korva of Finland to win the Women’s Double FITA Round. Gold: Karen, Wilma Anic and Joan Cooper took gold in the Women’s Double FITA Round team tournament, ahead of Germany and Finland.

Los Angeles 1984 (2 golds, 1 silver, 4 bronze)

Men Individual gold: Philip Thorne, Double FITA round C3, C6 (just one competitor), Individual bronze: Ernest Arnold, Double advaced metric round tetraplegic. Team bronze: Double FITA round team 1A-6, GB team; Short metric round team 1A-6. Women - gold: Helen Hilderley, Double FITA round division 3, silver: Beverley Leaper, Double FITA Round, Bronze: Anne Gray, Double short metric round paraplegic.

Arnhem 1980 (2 silver, 2 bronze)

Men Bronze: John Buchanan, double FITA round, paraplegic Team silver: Buchanan, Alan Corrie, Ian Smith, Double FITA round, team paraplegic. Women Silver: Valerie Williamson, Short metric round, paraplegic. Bronze: G Matthews, Advanced metric round, paraplegic.

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GB’s record at the Paralympics continued

Montreal 1976 (1 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze)

Men Team Gold: Short metric team open: Anslow, Biggs, Corrie Silver: Smith Tetraplegic round A-C Bronze: Corrie, Short metric round open, James, FITA round tetraplegic A-C Women Bronze: Matthews, Short metric round open

Munich 1972 (3 silver, 1 bronze)

Women Silver: Anderson, Women’s St. Nicholas round tetraplegic, Gibbs: Women’s FITA round open Team silver: Anderson, Taylor, Blackburn: Mixed St. Nicholas round team tetraplegic Bronze: Blackburn, Women’s St. Nicholas round tetraplegic

Mexico 1968

Tokyo 1964 (2 silver, 2 bronze)

Women Silver: Forder, Albion Round Open Silver: Legg-Willis, Columbia Round Open Bronze: Tetley, Columbia Round Open Bronze: Irvine, FITA Round Open

Rome 1960 (1 gold, 4 silver, 5 bronze)

Men Silver: Bradley, Men’s FITA round open Silver: Bradley, Men’s Windsor round open Bronze: Potter, Men’s FITA round open Bronze: Hepple, Men’s Columbia round open Women Gold: Maughan, Women’s Columbia round open Silver: Comley, Women’s FITA round open Silver: Irvine, Women’s Windsor round open Bronze: Irvine, Women’s FITA round open Bronze: Comley, Women’s Windsor round open Bronze: Gubbin, Women’s Columbia round open

(2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)

Paralympic Archery:

Recent World Championship Successes As well as Paralympic success, GB Paralympic archers have also been consistent medal winners at World Championships.

GB archers have won 17 medals at the last four World Championships – Italy 2005, Korea 2007, the Czech Republic 2009 and Italy (Turin) in 2011. Of those 19, 8 were gold, 4 were silver and 5 were bronze. Dani Brown (3), Mel Clarke, John Stubbs and Steve Prowse have won individual golds

Men Gold: Nicholson, St Nicholas round, cervical Silver: Potter, Robertson, Slough: Albion Round Team Open Silver: Potter, Robertson, Slough: FITA round team open Bronze: Bradshaw, St Nicholas round, cervical

Stubbs and Clarke have won individual silvers Fred Stevens, Pippa Britton, Kathy Smith, Kate Murray and Melissa Carter have won individual bronze.

The men’s compound team won gold in 2011 and silver in 2009. Dani Brown and John Stubbs won a mixed team silver in 2011. Dani Brown is a triple world champion, winning gold in 2011, 2009 and 2007 Indeed, GB can boast the women’s compound gold medallist at the last four World Championships: Mel Clarke won the title in 2005. The 2009 women’s compound World Championship gold medal match was an all British affair, as Dani beat GB teammate Mel Clarke 114107. Dani also scored 114 to win her first World Championship gold, when she defeated China’s Wang Li in Korea, 2007 - just four years after she had taken up archery! In 2011 she beat Russia’s Stepanida Arthakinova in the final, 7-3. In Turin, Dani also won a silver medal in the women’s compound team tournament, with Pippa Britton and Sarah Beamish, losing to Russia in the final.

The women’s compound team won gold in 2007 and 2009 and silver in 2011.

Women Gold: Brooks, St. Nicholas round cervical

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Paralympic Archery:

Recent World Championship Successes Dani won a silver in the compound mixed team tournament. She and John Stubbs lost to Russia in the final.

Pippa Britton lost to Mel in the semi-finals, and won the bronze medal. Kathy Smith won a bronze medal in the women’s recurve W2.

Medal winners, 2005 2011

Reigning Paralympic champion John Stubbs also won the silver medal at the 2011 World Championships in Turin, losing to Switzerland’s Philippe Horner.

Dani Brown has won 3 individual gold medals, 2 team golds, and 2 team silvers.

John won a gold medal in the men’s team compound event, with Richard Hennahane and Eric Thomas, beating Korea 225-221 in the final.

John Stubbs has won 1 individual gold, 1 individual silver, 1 team gold and 2 team silvers.

At the 2009 World Championships in the Czech Republic, along with her individual gold medal, Dani Brown won a team gold with Mel Clarke and Pippa Britton in the women’s compound team tournament.

Mel Clarke has won 1 individual gold, 2 team golds and 1 silver.

Fred won the men’s individual bronze medal at 63. He’s since retired.

Key Personnel Paralympic Coach:

Tim Hazell

Paralympic Team Manager:

Paul Atkins

Performance Director:



Archery GB Chairman:



David Harrison

Archery GB Chief Executive: Media Relations (Elite):

Sara Symington David Sherratt



Media Relations (Grass Roots):

Peter Jones Jane Percival

Sarah Beamish has a team silver (2011). Fred Stevens won a team silver and an individual bronze (2009).

Paul Atkins Paralympic Team Manager, Archery GB Tel: 07525 669534

John Murray won a team silver (2009).

In 2007, Dani was joined as a gold medallist by Steve Prowse (visually impaired). Kate Murray (women’s recurve W1) and Melissa Carter (visually impaired) both won bronze medals.

Kate Murray won an individual bronze (2007).

At the 2005 World Championships in Italy, John Stubbs (men’s compound) and Mel Clarke (women’s compound) won gold medals.

Kathy Smith won a bronze medal (2005).

Eric Thomas won a team gold (2011). Richard Hennahane won a team gold (2011).

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Pippa Britton has 2 team golds (2007/2009), team silver (2011) and an individual bronze (2005).

John Stubbs won a silver medal in the men’s compound team tournament, with Fred Stevens and John Murray.

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Peter Jones Media Relations, Archery GB Tel: 07841 997408 Email: [email protected]

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