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This coming week eight of Britain's finest archers will compete to win one of six places at the Beijing Olympics.

One of them, Alison Williamson, but the real aim is to emulate the feats of Sybil 'Queenie' Newall and William Dod 100 years ago.

Newall won the women's double national round to become, at the age of 53, the oldest female Olympic champion.

The event attracted 25 competitors and Britain swept the medals with - younger sister of William - finishing second and Beatrice Hill-Lowe third.

Maybe we should let the fact that no other country actually sent any female archers to the Games pass unnoticed.

Still, Newall had plenty of competition over the two rounds of 72 arrows each, and was trailing Dod going into the second day but she surged ahead and her winning total of 688 was 46 points ahead of her nearest rival.

The men's double York round was won by William Dod to give Britain their second, and to date, last archery gold medal.

One hundred years is a long time between gold medals, so will any of the British archers hit enough to break the drought in Beijing?