
While many of her competitors are on holidays, Tazmin Forrest is staying on target.The Ballarat archery prodigy has found a way to compete in her sport online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She is taking part in an isolation series titled the COV Medal – an event open to archers around the world who have access to a target above five metres in length. Luckily for Forrest, she has an eight-metre target in her own backyard and therefor qualifies. So to does her father.

Competing in weekly events, the pair fire 60 arrows over two rounds and then submit their results online.
They have even discovered a way to shoot arrows from inside their shed so as to stay out of the rain. “It’s a bit of fun and no one is taking it too seriously,” Forrest’s father Tom said.
“The targets are scaled to the distance you are shooting and the diameter of arrows you are using, so in theory it is just as hard to get a good score at three metres as it is at 18 metres.” Tazmin said her practice time, which she used to do alone, has now become bonding time with her father.
