Belfast archer Patrick Huston said he was “chuffed” after claiming a silver medal at the European Grand Prix. He was one of four Great Britain archers who won medals at the competition in Poreč, Croatia.
Huston competed in the recurve men’s division and defeated Moldova’s Dan Olaru 10-9 in a shoot-off to reach the gold final. In the battle for gold, Huston faced Israeli archer Roy Dror but lost out 6-0 in the decider.
Despite losing out, Huston said he was pleased with his performance after returning from injury.
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“I’m chuffed with taking silver. It’s great to see that all the work I’ve put in coming back from injury is paying off like this at a high level,” he said.
“I’d like to thank my team for all the support going through these matches! During the match I was pretty singularly focused upon my shooting and the technical work I did post qualifying, along with the form elements I know I need to maintain to shoot my best arrow groups.”
Competing as a women’s recurve team, Archery GB Olympic Squad athletes, Penny Healey, Bryony Pitman and Megan Havers ranked sixth place after qualification and following two consecutive 6-2 victories, earned their place in the gold final.
Facing the top ranked team from Korea, the team from GB put up a strong fight but eventually lost out on the top podium spot to Korea who won 6-0.
With the Final Quota Tournament for securing Olympic Games spots less than one week away, the Grand Prix gave Great Britain recurve archers a great opportunity to get some last minute practice in before setting off to Antalya, Turkey where they will compete for one last time internationally before the Olympic GB team is announced.
Find the final placings and scores from the event here .
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