Patrick Huston

Patrick Huston (born 5 January 1996) is a British competitive archer from Belfast, Northern Ireland.[1] He captured three world championship titles under the youth level, and eventually competed as a member of Team GB's archery squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics, losing the second round match to the eventual champion Ku Bon-chan of South Korea.[2] Huston currently trains full-time under senior national coach Richard Priestman[3] for Archery UK, while remaining a loyal founding member[4] of East Belfast Archery Club.[5]

Patrick Huston
Personal information
Full namePatrick Huston
Born (1996-01-05) 5 January 1996
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight84 kg (185 lb)
Sport
Country United Kingdom
SportArchery
Event(s)Recurve
ClubEast Belfast Archery Club
Coached byRichard Priestman
Medal record
Men's archery
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
2017 Mexico CityMixed team recurve
European Games
2019 MinskMixed team recurve
European Championships
2016 NottinghamTeam recurve
2016 NottinghamIndividual recurve
Updated on 23 June 2019.

Early life

Born and raised in Belfast to parents Adrian and Felicity Huston, both of whom previously worked as tax inspectors, Huston became involved in archery as an eight-year-old pupil at Cabin Hill Primary School. Under the tutelage of British longbow champion and his teacher Audrey Needham, Huston began to show his potential to the sport by joining and serving as a mainstay of Campbell College's archery club.[6][7][8]

Upon his entry to the Northern Ireland Elite Squad as a fourteen-year-old, Huston trained part-time as an archer, and eventually started competing in both local and regional tournaments regularly. In September 2011, Huston founded his very own East Belfast Archery Club across the Tullycarnet Community Centre.[9] In 2014 he left Campbell College to train full-time at Lillleshall National Sporting Centre.[10]

Career

The 2013 season saw him rising to the prominence on the international archery scene, collecting a set of two gold medals each in the individual and team recurve respectively at the World Youth Championships in Wuxi, China.[9][11] With his untimely success in archery, Huston was named by the British Olympic Committee (BOA) as one of the country's prospective sportspeople nominated for the 2013 Olympic Athlete of the Year award.[12]

Huston continued to extend his career resume through the 2014 and 2015 season by eclipsing the world 70-metre record at the Archery GB National Series in Exmouth, and by capturing his first individual gold medal under the senior division at the opening stage of the World Archery Cup series in Marrakech, Morocco.[13][14] Leading up to his Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro, Huston won a bronze medal in the men's individual recurve at the 2016 European Championships in Nottingham to secure a quota place on Team GB's Olympic archery squad.[15]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Huston was selected to compete as a lone male archer for the British squad, shooting only in the individual recurve tournament.[2][16] First, he recorded a total score of 656 points, including 22 targets of a perfect ten, to obtain the thirty-eighth seed from a field of 64 archers in the classification round.[17][18] Heading to the knockout stage on the third day of the Games, Huston confidently overcame the Dutchman and London 2012 fourth-place finalist Rick van der Ven with a two-set advantage at 6–4 in the opening round, before he lost his subsequent match on three straight sets to the eventual champion Ku Bon-chan of South Korea.[19][20]

September 2017 saw him make history by becoming the first archer to win the Great Britain National Series Recurve title three times in a row.[21][22]

As of December 2020 he is ranked 86th in the World.[23]

In May 2019, Huston was selected to compete in the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus joining over 100 other athletes in 10 different sports.[24][25]

Huston posted a series of educational exercise videos for primary school children which were met with wide acclaim. Although some mothers doubted their ability to actually improve their child's fitness, industry experts explained this was a new way of exercising that redefined physical exertion practices.

References
  1. "Patrick Huston". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37153742
  3. "Huston and Folkard to lead Archery GB in Shanghai". Eurosport. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  4. "Archer Patrick has Olympics in his sights". BBC News. 23 October 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  5. "Northern Ireland archer's note to self... in my mind I'm already the champion". Belfast Telegraph. 6 August 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  6. Beacom, Steven (6 August 2016). "Confident teenager Patrick has sights fixed on Olympics and World glory". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  7. Churchill, David (4 August 2016). "Olympic archer Patrick Huston: School bullies called me Robin Hood … where are they now?". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  8. "Olympic star Huston's 2020 vision has Tokyo firmly in his sights". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  9. Williams, Ollie (15 May 2014). "Patrick Huston's manifesto: no rules, get rich, win the Olympics. Twice". Frontier Sports. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  10. "Lilleshall National Sports & Conferencing Centre welcomes home Olympic and Paralympic stars". www.serco.com. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  11. "Huston targets Rio Games after China success". BBC Sport. 23 October 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  12. "BOA Announce Olympic Athletes of the Year 2013". Team GB. 23 December 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  13. "Archery: Patrick Huston off to World Cup". The News Letter. 13 June 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  14. "Hansen, Huston win Marrakesh men's titles with impressive finishes". World Archery. 22 November 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  15. "Rio 2016: NI's Huston qualifies for Olympic Games". BBC Sport. 27 May 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  16. "Archers Folkard and Huston book their Olympic spots". Team GB. 29 June 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  17. "Naomi and Patrick on hunt for glory". Archery UK. 5 August 2016. Archived from the original on 24 February 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  18. "Rio 2016: Patrick Huston is first Briton in action as he is 38th in archery qualifier". BBC Sport. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  19. "Archery: Men's Individual Round of 32". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  20. "Rio 2016: Patrick Huston Huston defeated in last 32". BBC Sport. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  21. "Belfast archer hits the target of record GB hat-trick". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  22. hustontv (10 October 2017), Patrick Huston v Alex Wise Archery GB National Series final 24 September 2017 Birmingham, retrieved 11 October 2017
  23. "World Ranking | World Archery". World Archery. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  24. "Archers join Team GB for Minsk 2019 European Games". Team GB. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  25. "Team GB squad announcement for the European Games". Team GB. 21 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
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