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Lydia Redgrove has won this year’s St Oswald’s Cup, the final Croesoswallt Archers' club competition of the 2026 outdoor season, after producing the best handicap-adjusted score of the day. This year’s results were:

1st: Lydia Redgrove – 3,104 points
2nd: Pete Geddes – 2,934 points
3rd: Alex Hollinshead – 2,884 points

The St Oswald’s Cup is shot as a handicap competition, giving archers of different abilities the chance to compete fairly against one another. Rather than simply comparing raw scores, each archer’s result is adjusted using the Archery GB handicap system, taking account of their expected level of performance.

The competition was shot as a Double Warwick, with a single Warwick round in the morning before everyone took a break for a picnic lunch. Making for a relaxed and sociable day, with plenty of time to chat, compare scores and enjoy good company before heading back onto the shooting line for the second Warwick round in the afternoon.

Once the final arrows had been shot, all the scores checked and the handicaps applied, it was Lydia who came out on top to claim the magnificent St Oswald’s Cup.

Her victory was made all the more impressive by the fact that this was Lydia’s very first competition and she was shooting with a new bow. Having only joined Croesoswallt Archers at the very end of May 2026, she has made excellent progress in just three months.

It was a fitting way to bring the outdoor club competition season to a close: good shooting, friendly competition, a picnic together and plenty of the relaxed club atmosphere that makes these events so enjoyable.

Congratulations to Lydia on a thoroughly deserved victory and thank you to everyone who took part.