Our small contingent of South Australian Archers really excelled at the recent National Championships in Morwell Victoria, bringing home a total of 17 medals (9 gold, 2 silver and 6 bronze) and two best all round awards. Our State Team of Greg Opie, Graham Potts, Rory Blake, Atilla Balla, Chris Drown (back row), and Chris de Mello, Shirley Biggs, and Ian Dall (front row), Michael Blake (Team Manager) and Norman Biggs (Assistant Team Manager) were joined in Morwell by Harrison Balla and John Vine Hall for the 2019 National Championships, 2-6 November. Our relatively small team did well to bring home a total of 17 medals (9 gold, 2 silver and 6 bronze). Congratulations to our medal winners: Target Field Short Distance Clout Rory Blake Open Male Compound 16th 11th Gold – Chris de Mello Open Male Recurve 9th 8th 6th Gold Atilla Balla Master Male Compound 7th 12th 9th Bronze Graham Potts Master Male Compound 4th 5th 6th Silver Chris Drown Master Male Recurve Gold 5th 7th Bronze Greg Opie Master Male Recurve 4th Bronze Bronze Gold Shirley Biggs Veteran Female Compound Gold Bronze Gold Gold Ian Dall Veteran Male Recurve Bronze Silver Gold Gold .telerik-reTable-1 { border-width: 0px; border-style: none; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma; } .telerik-reTable-1 tr.telerik-reTableHeaderRow-1 { margin: 10px; padding: 10px; color: #3F4D6B; background: #D6E8FF; text-align: left; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-family: Tahoma; text-transform: capitalize; font-weight: bold; border-spacing: 10px; line-height: 14pt; vertical-align: top; } .telerik-reTable-1 td.telerik-reTableHeaderFirstCol-1 { padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; color: #3a4663; line-height: 14pt; } .telerik-reTable-1 td.telerik-reTableHeaderLastCol-1 { padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; color: #3a4663; line-height: 14pt; } .telerik-reTable-1 td.telerik-reTableHeaderOddCol-1 { padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; color: #3a4663; line-height: 14pt; } .telerik-reTable-1 td.telerik-reTableHeaderEvenCol-1 { padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; color: #3a4663; line-height: 14pt; } .telerik-reTable-1 tr.telerik-reTableOddRow-1 { color: #666666; background-color: #F2F3F4; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top; } .telerik-reTable-1 tr.telerik-reTableEvenRow-1 { color: #666666; background-color: #E7EBF7; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top; } .telerik-reTable-1 td.telerik-reTableFirstCol-1 { padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; } .telerik-reTable-1 td.telerik-reTableLastCol-1 { padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; } .telerik-reTable-1 td.telerik-reTableOddCol-1 { padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; } .telerik-reTable-1 td.telerik-reTableEvenCol-1 { padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; } .telerik-reTable-1 tr.telerik-reTableFooterRow-1 { background-color: #D6E8FF; color: #4A5A80; font-weight: 500; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 11pt; } .telerik-reTable-1 td.telerik-reTableFooterFirstCol-1 { padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; border-top: solid gray 1.0pt; text-align: left; } .telerik-reTable-1 td.telerik-reTableFooterLastCol-1 { padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; border-top: solid gray 1.0pt; text-align: left; } .telerik-reTable-1 td.telerik-reTableFooterOddCol-1 { padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; text-align: left; border-top: solid gray 1.0pt; } .telerik-reTable-1 td.telerik-reTableFooterEvenCol-1 { padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; text-align: left; border-top: solid gray 1.0pt; } A very special mention to Rory Blake who, at 16 years of age, shooting in the Open Male Compound category, won the Short Distance event in a star-studded field. Congratulations also to Greg Opie who was Best All Round Master Male Recurve archer and Ian Dall was Best All Round Veteran Male Recurve archer. A full team consists of 4 Male and 4 Femaie archers in each discipline (compound and recurve). We only had one female archer so we had a serious handicap in the inter RGB team competition and were only able to place 3rd in both competitions. Next year …