A total of 47 archers took part, with the event starting on the Saturday with a Portsmouth round shot at the St John’s Billy Butlin Memorial Hall.
Five dozen arrows were shot at a distance of 20 yards scoring ten downwards with a maximum score of 600.
Jersey archers Lucy O’Sullivan (junior compound).
Mary Audrain (ladies compound) and Heath Perrett (gents compound) won the honours.
The gents recurve was a very tight finish with first, second and third placings all finishing on 543 and placings only being finalised by the number of golds.
Chris Massey of Guernsey took top honours with 23 golds, with second having 22 golds and third 20.
The ladies recurve winner was Major Caroline Owen, a first time competitor, who finished with a score of 544.
The FITA held on Sunday started the day with light rain and dark heavy clouds, not a welcome sight for a full day outdoor shoot but good practice for those in training for the Island Games to be held in the Shetland Isles.
Archers got off to a cold start.
The FITA is shot at various distances – 90, 70, 50 and 30 metres for gents and 70, 60, 50 and 30 metres for women – with reduced distances for juniors depending on the ages and three dozen arrows shot at each distance with a maximum score of 1444.
Guernsey’s Steve Yates (gents compound) and Dave Nash (gents recurve) won with scores of 1308 and 1101 respectively.
Jersey’s Angela Perrett (ladies compound) and Karen Daw (ladies recurve) succeeded with scores of 1262 and 1054 and nine-year-old junior Jack Biggs from Woking Archers scored 1061.
Monday saw much improved weather conditions for the archers to meet at Crabbé woods for a Forresters round.
The field complete a course of 14 targets set at various distances from 12 metres to 65 metres and shooting a maximum of 35 arrows with a maximum score of 540.
There was local success for Liz Pomroy (ladies recurve), Angela Perrett (ladies compound) and Lewis Brock (junior recurve) scoring 225, 305 and 125.
Guernsey’s Matt Tardival (gents recurve) scored 390 with Nigel Watts (gents compound) from Reddich Archers scoring 390.
Overall winners were Liz Pomroy and Angela Perrett of Jersey, Toni Robilliard of Guernsey and Phil Cunningham and Jack Biggs from UK archery clubs.
