By David Conran
The 2024 Pan Pacific Masters Games target archery has wrapped up with over 55 archers from seven nations, across all ability levels and bow divisions, competing under the splendid Queensland sun.
We were fortunate to have seven archers compete from different disability categories.
Para-archer, Kieran Dinnerville (para-wheelchair), as well as winning his division, won our special novelty prize of having the closest arrow to the exact centre of the target at the end of the event.
In a close contest, Kieran beat every other archer in the field with his precision shooting.
Thomas Holland, another wheelchair archer, decided to compete against the able-bodied archers of his bow division in the ‘open’ category, and won in great style.
His score of 606 was so good, it exceeded the qualifying score (585) required for entry into the 2025 World Archery Para Championships in Gwangju, Korea.
Proving that archery is a sport for everyone, we had a host of visually impaired archers in the line-up.
They work with their spotters as a team of two, to accomplish landing their arrows on a 80cm-wide target face 30 metres away.
That’s awe inspiring and humbling all at the same time.
Congratulations to them all!
