Newcastle archer named in Great Britain squad for World Cup in Turkey

A skilled Newcastle archer has been called up to represent Great Britain in the Archery World Cup.

Northumbria University student, Alex Wise is part of a team of archers that will compete in the 2023 Hyundai Archery World Cup, which will take place in Antalya, Turkey in April. Held annually, the World Cup brings together the best archers from across the world to compete both individually and as teams throughout its four stages, with archers seeking to earn a place at September’s World Cup final in Mexico.

Having topped the medal table and achieving four impressive medals at 2022’s first stage, Great Britain’s archers will once again be looking to secure success in Antalya across both the recurve and compound disciplines.

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Part of the recurve men’s team, Alex, who is studying Sport Development at university, will be the only archer from the North East. Alex shoots for Bowmen of Walker, which he joined in 2015, and went on to win the Young Sporting Success of the Year at Sport Newcastle’s annual awards in 2020.

He first tried archery on holiday in Turkey and fell in love with the sport and was part of the bronze winning team at the Archery World Cup in Antalya, 2018 and part of the team that secured the full Olympic quota in 2019. He also broke two National Records during the 2021 outdoor season, whilst also winning the British Target Championships. Amongst his other achievements are winning the Mixed Team silver at the Antalya World Cup with teammate Bryony Pitman.

Following the squad’s announcement, Compound Programme Manager Jon Nott said, “I am very excited for our team to be on the World Cup trail for 2023. We very much believe that we can back up the success of 2022, and that our women’s team will be in the mix for medals all season. Antalya will be exciting as always to see how our preparations are going ahead of July’s World Championships.”

The Hyundai Archery World Cup is archery’s annual elite international competition. Consisting of four stages and a grand final to which only the best athletes in each of the four international competition categories (Male/Female Compound and Male/Female Recurve) are invited.

The World Archery Championships will be held from July 31 – August 6 in Berlin, Germany.

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