Ten archers target Paralympic success at Rio 2016

The archery team will include John Stubbs, already a two-time Paralympian and Beijing 2008 gold medallist, and John Cavanagh, who has competed at every Games since Sydney in 2000.

Stubbs said:

“Rio 2016 will be my third Games and I feel just as proud today as I did when I was selected to represent ParalympicsGB for the first time in Beijing.

“Going to the Paralympics is the biggest honour an athlete can achieve and I really hope to do the nation proud again as the team did at London 2012."

Also selected is Mikey Hall, an Army veteran whose achievements in archery began when he won individual bronze and team gold at the prestigious Invictus Games in 2014.

The ex-serviceman who is supported by Help for Heroes’ Sports Recovery programme and who has been part of the BPA and Help for Heroes’ joint Front Line to Start Line, has been competing internationally since 2015.

Hall added:

“I am incredibly proud to be selected today, it is such an honour to be able to represent my country and to do so at the highest level in sport is just amazing."

Hilda Gibson, Team Leader for Archery, said:

“This is a fantastic day for the athletes and we are pleased to take a day off all our training in order to celebrate how hard these archers have worked over many years to get to this point.

"I know they will be fired up to do their best in competition later this year.”

Archery GB is the governing body for the sport of archery in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.The selected athletes are:

John Cavanagh

Home town: Wandsworth, London
Training base: Royal Richmond Archery Club

Jo Frith

Home town: Glastonbury, Somerset.
Training base: Lilleshall National Sports & Conferencing Centre

Jodie Grinham

Home town: Telford
Training base: Lilleshall National Sports & Conferencing Centre

Mikey Hall

Home town: St Martin’s, Shropshire
Training base: Lilleshall National Sports & Conferencing Centre

Nathan Macqueen

Home town: Polbeth, Scotland
Training base: Lilleshall National Sports & Conferencing Centre

Tania Nadarajah

Home town: Banstead, Surrey
Training base: Lilleshall National Sports & Conferencing Centre, CEDAK

David Phillips

Home town: Cwmbran
Training base: WIS, Sofia Gardens

Jess Stretton

Home town: Hemel Hempstead
Training base: Lilleshall National Sports & Conferencing Centre

John Stubbs

Home town: Manchester
Training base: Lilleshall National Sports & Conferencing Centre

John Walker

Home town: Newport, Shropshire
Training base: Lilleshall National Sports & Conferencing Centre