Gold for Chris and Chloe Underdown in postal contest

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GISBORNE Archery Club members Chris Underdown and his daughter Chloe won gold in their divisions of the Royle Hutton Annual Tournament.

This is a national postal shoot held on Waitangi Day every year.

It commemorates Royle Hutton, the founder of youth archery in New Zealand.

Entrants from around the country compete in their own areas and send in their scoring. Once all the scores have been collated the results are announced.

The shoot is a Burton, named after the late Jim Burton, the driving force behind Gisborne Archery Club.

Archers shot at distances of 55 metres, 46m and 37m.

Five archers from the Gisborne club took part.

Chris Underdown won gold in the masters' (50 to 65) male barebow division, which is shot without a sight. His winning score was 692.

Chloe Underdown's gold came in the women's compound division with a score of 875.

Colin Marshall was third in the master men's compound division with a score of 848. David Croskery was fourth with a score of 842.

Matt Jackson, new to archery, entered the men's recurve division and finished in a creditable fifth place with a score of 752.

Gisborne finished seventh in the clubs medal count, and the archers gained an idea of where they stood in relation to other archers nationwide.