Shropshire’s Olympic medal-winning archer Alison Williamson was on top form at Lilleshall – on a day of record-breaking shooting.

Williamson was the big name for local fans at the Telford Archers Double FITA Star at Lilleshall over the weekend.

She came out on top in a battle with her GB team-mates to win the ladies recurve event.

But there was plenty more going on over two days of top drawer competition – with two world records, three European records and eight national records being broken.

The two-day competition was being hosted by Telford Archers for the fourth time and attracted well over 200 competitors.

Williamson, from Church Stretton and a bronze medalist at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, won the ladies recurve with a combined score of 2,613.

The Long Mynd Archer finished well clear of GB Team-mates Naomi Folkard and Charlotte Burgess (who both scored 2,585).

Behind Williamson, the leading Shropshire competitor was her Long Mynd club-mate Kay Lucas, who was 14th with a score of 2,368.

The gents’ recurve was won by another Olympian Larry Godfrey, whose Sunday score of 1,306 saw him overhaul rival Alan Wills with a combined 2,580.

In the compound bow competition, promising Telford Archer Matthew Rudge, 18, did well to secure a 26th place finish out of 50.

The teenager is in the GB junior squad and had jetted home from a competition at Utah in order to shoot at Lilleshall, recording a score of 2,652.

But he could not match worthy winner Chris White (Rugby), whose double score of 2,816 was a new national record – eclipsing the old mark of 2,791.

White’s Sunday score of 1,415 was also a national record, and just four points short of the world record.

Other record breakers included Zoe Coggins of Cleadon Archers, who recorded two new national marks, and Tom Barber of Thorpe Hamlet Juniors, who got a European record with the compound bow and a national record with the recurve bow.

But the undoubted star record breaker was Nichola Simpson of Oxford Archery Club.

She shot 1,403 in the Ladies FITA masters on Sunday to beat the old world record of 1,394. The maximum score is 1,440. Her double round score of 2,802 was a new national record.

She also shot 350 at 50 metres to set another new world record by four metres.