Carol Fairbrother crowned Yorkshire champion for 20th time as St George's Archery Club dominate
Carol Fairbrother was crowned Yorkshire champion for an unprecedented 20th consecutive year as St George’s Archery Club enjoyed another excellent competition outing.
Eight members of the Allerton Park-based club joined archers from across the county to contest the Yorkshire Clout Championships in Driffield.
Clout is a form of the sport where competitors shoot from long distance attempting to drop their arrows as near as possible to a flag placed in the ground which is surrounded by a 12-foot radius scoring zone.
On an extremely successful day for the club, it was not just Fairbrother who impressed as she once again took the honours in the 140-yard female barebow category.
Indeed, St George’s members secured the top four places in that event, with Jess Hardesty-Dean continuing her excellent transition to the senior age-group by claiming silver.
Meanwhile, Rowan Hunt won bronze, and novice archer Sue Hobson, still in her first season in the sport, shot exceptionally to bag fourth spot.
Ian Harris continued the club’s barebow success winning the Yorkshire men’s 180-yard title for the fourth time, before longbowman Clive Woolley grabbed his fifth Yorkshire championship.
In the ladies’ 140-yard longbow competition, Barabra Stebbens won bronze, and Caron Kolowiecki came first in the over-50 age-group.
Associate St George’s members Julian Smith and Laura Hainsworth won the compound and longbow championships, Geoff Ingleby the 50+ longbow category and Ray Chaplin claimed the gentlemen’s recurve bronze.
The St George’s barebow team of Fairbrother, Harris and Hardesty-Dean, and the longbow team of Woolley, Stebbens and Kolowiecki then rounded off a superb day’s work by snapping up the county club team titles.