ELLA GIBSON from Cirencester has enjoyed an astonishing run of success in the past fortnight, claiming two British archery titles as well as the Gloucestershire Junior Championship.

Gibson, 16, was one of three members of the Deer Park Archers club based in Shurdington to come away from the British Junior Indoor Championships at Stoneleigh Park with a title.

Ella won in the Junior Ladies’ U18 Barebow category.

Also successful was Riley Spencer-Nice, from Miserden, who won the Junior Gentleman U14 Recurve title with an excellent score, beating Ashe Morgan’s county record in the process.

Gloucester's Holly Clifford (Compound Ladies’ U16 title) was the final member of the victorious Deer Park trio.

The previous weekend Ella was one of hundreds of archers at venues across Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England who competed in the Annual British Barebow Championships.

She top-scored in the Junior Ladies’ section, winning comfortably by more than 40 points. Her score was so good that she would have finished only just outside the medal positions in the adult ladies’ section.

Having recorded that score in the morning in Somerset, Ella raced back to compete in the Gloucestershire Junior Championships, where she recorded another excellent score to win that event too.

Ella was one of 14 Deer Park club archers who picked up titles at the event. Other club winners included James Howse, Lucy Mason, Holly Clifford, Will Gore and Molly Peters.

"Ella is a very together and disciplined young lady, strong both intellectually and physically," said Roger Crang, Deer Park Archers' club development officer.

"She has so far specialised in barebow but last Sunday she shot recurve in the British Target Championships and claimed both the adult and junior county records.

"Ella will spend the remainder of the winter being coached by my daughter Steph to shoot compound because she wants a bigger challenge.

"She is not satisfied with just being a British champion, she wants to become a successful international archer and it is a much quicker process to get competitive at that level shooting compound.

"She is about to start a course in coaching which can do nothing but help her own archery too."

Great things are also predicted for 12-year-old Spencer-Nice.

"Steph thinks Riley is the going to be the best archer the club has ever had," added Crang, whose club has already guided a number of GB internationals.

"He combines a wonderful work ethic and general approach. Many juniors struggle with being beaten but Riley just gets on with it.

"He is also the fittest individual we have ever had. It is a misconception that you don’t need to be fit to be a top archer. You can sometimes be competing from 9am until 7pm, shooting more than 200 arrows, which is both mentally and physically demanding.

"Riley shoots recurve and is very much on the Olympic pathway.

"His talent has also been recognised with a sports scholarship to King's School in Gloucester.

"In winning his British title he shot the best score (572) recorded for someone of his age group for the last three years and he has another year in that category.

"Incredibly he competed in the adult championship the following day and finished 44th in a field of 182, breaking another county record."