This page is to allow us to capture the news about any tournament or competition that Llantwit Major Archers are involved in

Geraint Thomas shoots in the 2008 Pro tour in Germany. Finishes 23rd in a world top class pro group. Congratulations.

Full details here - Pro 2008

Mathew Symmonds completed the WFAC on the 7th to 11th April. Mathew represented Wales in this highest level competition and as you can see was sucessful in bringing back the Gold.

All Llantwit Major Archers congratulate Mathew on being IFAA World Champion Mens Freestyle Recurve Archer 2008

Day 1 - Field - 459 - 1st place
Day 2 - Hunter - 448 - 1st place
Day 3 - Animal - 520 - 1st Place
Day 4 - Field - 447 - 1st Place
Day 5 - Hunter 487 - 1st Place

Click here to go to the official page and view the full results etc. WFAC Namibia

Round 2 of the FMT competition was completed - a short round on Fonmon North end. The weather held off but the previous few days rain had an impact as the course was very muddy and partly flooded. The underfoot conditions however were not enough to call the shoot off and despite a problematical start with a mistake on the score cards causing some confusion and delay the main topic was the new target 17. Same distance, same decline but now under the pine trees and a bit more challenging. LMA Archers were out in force as usual and at the forefront when awards were handed out !
See WFAA FMT Round 2 for more info.

Llantwit Major Archers did well in the first Field Masters Tour shoot of the year with a lot of our archers setting high scores and winning their style. See WFAA web page for details at - WFAA FMT Round 1

The Welsh & Open got off to a good start today, Saturday 19th. Llantwit Major Archers were out in force for the top Welsh National event. The weather was wet and windy but that did not deter a good number of archers from showing up from as far afield as Scotland. Dynefwr Archery Club were out at Fonmon for their first WFAA shoot, we offer a hearty welcome from Llantwit Major Archers.

The day progressed well with all enjoying the shoot and then disaster struck in the shape of a tree crashing down and taking out the high power electric lines that cross the course. These cables cross the couse at the point that was target 17, fortuitously the WFAA had recently moved Target 17 15yds to the left under the pine trees, Bob Lloyd who was shooting target 17 at the time was very happy about that move !

It was deemed unsafe to continue to shoot and the organisers are hoping we can resume tomorrow.

The 2nd day of the Welsh went ahead with reasonable weather. Llantwit Major Archers were out in force and a good number of trophies came our way.

The competition was close in a number of styles, see here for the full results

I have been asked by the WFAA to thank Llantwit Major Archers for all their work to make the Welsh and Open a sucess this year and especially to thank Matt Howard and Steve Lloyd for their excellent services as Marshals for the day and Colin Ketley for his pre shoot work on getting the Admin area ready for all of us.