TWO Winnington Park Bowmen archers are celebrating recent success.

Leigh Hadfield and Michelle Oakes won titles at the Cheshire Field Archery Championships in Barnsley, with the event being held alongside the Northern Counties Archery Championships (NCAS).

This was the first time Hadfield has competed in field archery, so he had to use his target archery knowledge alongside learning new techniques for the field discipline.

His group was filled with extremely experienced archers, some of whom he also competes alongside at target archery.

Had field was crowned Cheshire field champion, placed fourth in NCAS and was fifth overall.

This was a new event for Oakes also, with some very experienced women from NCAS in her category too.

She placed first in Cheshire – and was the only woman in the group – as well as second in NCAS and second overall.

The field discipline features archers working their way around a forest or wooded area, shooting at a variety of different targets.

These targets are situated in places that are difficult to aim at, up and down slopes and in ditches.

There are four different target sizes and for this competition, 24 targets.

A dozen of the targets had their distances marked for the archers, but 12 were at an unknown distance which the archers had to work out using a variety of techniques and methods.

On the same weekend, another WPB archer tried out field archery at Buton, Derbyshire.

Jordan Bettis shot on the Merlin archery course on a round of 12 marked targets and performed well in another large field of archers.