International competition is kicking into gear for 2026

Asia Cup #1

Heading to the first Asia Cup of the year in Thailand, we had a team that needed the competition and had been training well in the lead up. With little match play competition in Australia is always good to test the nerves and see how we can translate training to competition. We anticipated the heat with ice towels and cooling aids; however, it was still hard to adjust to. With temperatures hitting 38 degrees each day the conditions were challenging for our team.

Compound

A late change of venue meant there was no separate practice venue, and competition went straight into qualification with compound women. Liz Randle having a shaky start to get rid of the nerves of international competition but finished strong, managed to win her first match, but unable to make it past her second match and finishing 24th overall.

In the compound men, Pat Coghlan had to fight through the heat. Pat had a bye in the first round of matches, a close match, not going Pats way and he did not progress, he ended on 18th overall. Pat teamed up with Liz for compound mix team, but they did not progress pass the first round.

Recurve

In the recurve men, Jai, Chris and Ryan had qualification and matches in the afternoon under some tricky afternoon breeze, all came through nicely with some promising groups, Jai getting a bye into the next round. Both Chris and Ryan making it past the first round to join Jai. However, only Jai came through to make the 1/8 round, the to be defeated by strong opposition, he finished 10^th overall. Chris 17^th and Ryan 26th. In the teams we got a bye straight to the quarter finals before unfortunately being knocked out by a strong Malaysian team.

Our recurve women braved the afternoon heat with Lexie Feeney and Megan Denier making it through qualifying. Lexie had a bye and Megan managed what looked like a comfortable win over her Slovenian opponent. Lexie took her match to a shoot off, narrowly missing out on progressing through to the next round, Megan not able to keep up with the strength of the Indian team and not progressing also. Megan finishing 31^st overall and Lexie 18^th

Hyundai World Archery Para Series #1

Jai and Lexie looked to try and finished strong in the mixed teams for recurve, coming close but unfortunately were not able to get passed the home nations Thailand.

The Hyundai World Archery Para Series continued following the Asia cup and they too could not escape the heat and humidity in Thailand.

Official practice and classification went well for everyone while adjusting to the heat and preparing to start. Rosie Attard became the first Australian internationally classified W1 female while also making her international debut and getting a PB. Richard Davis also making his international debut.

Individuals

The recurve men to started competition off in the afternoon with some strong rankings. Stuart Hume shooting an international PB saw him ranking 5th topping the field. Tom Holland improved on his first 36 arrows and ranked 16th. Richard Davis ranking 22nd in a tough field. In the 1/16 matchplay round Stuart won his first match 6-0, whilst Tom and Richard both getting eliminated in very close matches for the individual competition.

Chris Davis qualified top 4 in his ranking round, however, was defeated in the 1/4 match, as was Rosie, both against the Republic of Korea.

After the qualification round, Jono finished ranked number 1 for the 3^rd time in his international career. Jono also reached a PB for matchplay easily moved through the 1/8 round, while Pat made it to a very close 1/8 match he didn’t progress, only just going down to Japan.

Jono moved through to the Compound Gold medal match, claiming his second medal of the competition a with silver, narrowly missing out against India.

Doubles

Jono and Pat ranked 2^nd in the compound team doubles and progressing through matchplay to make the bronze medal match and taking home the first Aussie medal of the competition, this also being the first internation medal for Pat.

The recurve men’s doubles team of Tom and Stu finished top 4 to also progress through to their first international medal match in the bronze medal match, unfortunately they went down to the Republic of Korea.