News

Section to add general archery news and tournaments reports, photos etc. If you have any reports please send to  pgregory118@gmail.com and we will publish them on the site.

Apr 2022 - Getting prepared for 2022

Looks like the rankings system will be go for 2022. Just getting things sorted out but hopefully in  a few weeks we will be getting results for 2022

Oct 2021 - 2021 season finished ! 

Congratulations to all 1st 2nd and 3rd place winners in each category for Longbow and Barebow

            Some fantastic scores and some new records too!!

                             We now need to move the perpetual trophies for 1st place in each category for both longbow and barebow                    

                             I understand that some trophies for Barebow 1st place have been returned to Nick Hayball and he is sending  me a list of those he has.

                             If 1st place trophy holders can possibly contact the new winners and post the trophies and if the new winners could  have them engraved that would make things much simpler. If receipts are emailed to me I can reimburse all costs.

If this is not possible then can 1st place trophy holders contact me at agb.archeryrankings@gmail.com and I will give you my postal address to send to. If you have sent the trophy on to the new winner can you email me to confirm this

                             2nd and 3rd place awards will be engraved and posted directly to winners

Thanks to all for your assistance with the above

Barry Du-Crow

May 2021 - Go for 2021

We are go for the 2021 season. As we have all been in lockdown the season is shorter this year, so just one score of each ronud type to get a complete set. Details are on the AGB site here: https://www.archerygb.org/shoot-compete/compete/national-rankings

Happy shooting everyone

31st Oct 2019 - Another great season of longbowing has now finished

In the Gents 1st place in GMB we have Cliff Gadd ,only 4 points ahead of Martin Bale in second . Cliff also set a new UK  720 record, an amazing score of 471 ! (previously 460)   Martin Bale set another new UK record with a York at 681 (previously 668). In 3rd place GMB this season was Rob Twigg. All three started the season as GMB and retained that classification.

The MB category saw 3 new winners Hamish Freeman finished on 2498, 80 points ahead of Dale Message and in 3rd Henry Evans a close 26 points behind him. All three archers went up a classification to GMB!

The Bowman and below category also saw 3 new winners. In first place Andrew Wall bringing in a total of 2540 and jumping straight to GMB from bowman (and below)! Steve Yates took 2nd and gained a jump to MB  and  3rd Chris Ellis  now MB 

In the Ladies Longbow GMB we have Sheila Hudson in 1st with an impressive 3124 points (no surprise there!!) In 2nd Sophie Twigg and behind her in 3rd we have Sharon Lawrence.  All retaining GMB  from last season.

In Ladies MB we have 3 new winners this season In 1st place we have Katrina Horton  Jumping a class to GMB . In 2nd place we have Mary Watson who also jumped up one class to GMB and in 3rd Melanie Fretwell  who retained MB from last season.

In the Ladies Bowman and below category yet again 3 new winners with Lorraine Slater taking 1st place followed by Helen Woodcock in 2nd .   3rd place was won by Tracey Cross who jumped to MB

If any of the above or indeed anyone else gained any UK records this season give us a yell and we will give your achievement some room on the website.

Well done to all the winners, the trophies and plaques will be organised soon and will be sent out with your names engraved.

 Those holding the1st place trophies,  hold on to them and we will be in touch to arrange getting them to their new owners.

I would also like so say a big thanks to the Longbow Shop for their continuing support for the rankings league it is much appreciated!

Paul Gregory, Barry Du-Crow and Nick Hayball (aka Results Solutions) 

19th Oct 2019 - End of 2019 Season - Results almost in

The results are all almost in and we can announce the results soon.  Just waiting for the West Midlands Regional Senior Inter Counties 1440 scores. If any one out there has them please send to us :)

10th Jun 2019 - End of 2019 Season

We are just getting the last of the scores together for the 2019 season. 

We have also produced a few more stats comparing this years and last years season see: https://sites.google.com/view/uk-longbow-ranking/yearly-stats 

Finally, we a trialing a Portsmouth round indoor "postal league" for Longbow. Link is here: https://sites.google.com/view/uk-longbow-ranking/portsmouth . You can enter  in your own scores here. We need name, date, score, hits and golds.  Your scores will be displayed here: https://sites.google.com/view/uk-longbow-ranking/portsmouth/scores  and league tables are here: https://sites.google.com/view/uk-longbow-ranking/portsmouth/gents-table  and https://sites.google.com/view/uk-longbow-ranking/portsmouth/ladies-table . This is just a bit of fun. It doesn't have to be a record status shoot or even at a competition.  Best of luck

24th Jun 2019 - Results locked header line

Finally I've worked out how to do this. It's as pretty as I can make it. Which is slightly less pretty than it was but now the header doesn't disappear when you scroll down. Have only done it for Longbow gents, so far see here https://sites.google.com/view/uk-longbow-ranking/longbow/longbow-gents 

Will review and move to other pages if we think it is better.

Thurs 26th Oct 2018 - Winners Update 

Well done to all Longbow and Barebow award winners. You should be contacted by AGB asking for details (Contact no. Address, and email) so that we can send out the Trophies/shields and medals. To speed up this process if award winners contact barryducrow@btinternet.com with above details I will get the awards sent out asap. 

4th March 2018 - ArcherGB rules announced 

Message from ArcheryGB: https://www.archerygb.org/2019-national-ranking-rules-announced/?fbclid=IwAR0XyhSiM783UYKEYBUXjxmNuVHs18m7Vdb0sVmQTpKdu5yX3va1OnulNpc 

Thurs 17th Oct 2018 - Update from Archery GB 

Archery GB’s Competition and Events Manager Jon Nott said: “Barry, Paul and Nick have done a fantastic job, they have gone over and above the conversations we had early 2018. Archery GB will be adopting this system going forward as the national longbow and barebow rankings. I would like to thank everybody who has been involved in making these a success and look forward to next year. I would also like to thank the Longbow Shop for its support and congratulate everybody on the list.” 

For full details click  here 

Thurs 11th Oct 2018 - Longbows and Barebows National Rankings

The final scores have all been entered, so current rankings are the provisional rankings results for the 2018 season.

 We will allow some time for these results to be queried by all archers who have competed. 

Mon 8th Oct 2018 - Update from AGB

We had  discussion with AGB about the 2018 longbow and barebow rankings and the following was agreed:

• Survey monkey not compulsory 

  • Results from survey will compared with the results already in the system (UK Longbow & Barebow Rankings) any differences reconciled

• A few competitions have not published their results online, AGB to supply those results if available

• Record status competitions in March 2018 count towards a ranking score

• Record status competitions in October 2018 don't count towards a ranking score 

• All record status Yorks count towards a ranking score - they don't have to be rose status

• Next year the format of the competition (2 Fita 1440s, 2 Fita 720s and 1 York/Hereford) is expected to stay the same.

Thurs 19th July 2018 - Ladies Longbow scores lookup

Lookup scores for ladies longbow done.  Link is here

Tues 17th July 2018 - Gents barebow scores lookup

Lookup scores for gents barebow done.  Link is here

PS Also fixed the ladies barebow lookup 

Mon 26th June 2018 - Ladies barebow scores lookup

Finally got round to doing the lookup scores for ladies barebow and the good news is I've done it with a dynamic list, which means that if new names get added in the ranking list they will automatically be added to the lookup  :) . Which also means I will have to fix the gents longbow list which is only static. Link is here 

May 2018 - Gents longbow scores lookup

Find your scores. Forgotten what you scored at the beginning of the season? Wonder why someone is ahead of you? Find out in the "look up your scores". Currently only longbow gents at the moment as I've not got round to doing the rest yet. Link is here., but you have to scroll to the bottom of the page. No I can't put the link directly to the bottom of the page. 

Mon 2nd April 2018 - Longbow Ranking tournament committee meeting - Minutes

Meeting opened at 6:15pm

The “Champion competition” was discussed. Agreed to  looking into running next season as a 1st class and 2nd class categories as 3rd class is too easy. Need to identify current non record status competitions and see which rounds would be suitable. Looking at rounds 60 yards and under. Action Barry to look at rounds clubs do 

Potentially start with Southern areas rather than nationwide.

New capture app discussed feasibility to be determined.

Discussion about drummers that have too much money.

There was no further business so the meeting was adjourned 

Meeting end 7:15pm 

Fri 23rd March 2018 - First Ranking tournament meeting

The first committee meeting was held and after a bit of struggling with basic arithmetic it was decided to award £30 prize money for each barebow winner of a class. As if the trophy on it own wasn't enough. Next target prize money for the longbow section too.