Background
Simon Duncan Terry was born on 27 March 1974 in Stirling, the son of Mike and Janice Terry. With the help of his father, Terry first began practising archery when he was eight years old.
Simon Duncan Terry was born on 27 March 1974 in Stirling, the son of Mike and Janice Terry. With the help of his father, Terry first began practising archery when he was eight years old.
At the time of the 1992 Summer Olympics, Terry was an unemployed roofer. Another one of his successes was at the fourth stage of the 2007 World Cup in Dover, England, when he was victorious against the young Mexican archer, Juan René Serrano. Serrano scored an eight in the tie and Terry scored a nine.
At the in Beijing Terry finished his ranking round with a total of 670 points, nine points behind leader Juan René Serrano.
This gave him the seventh seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Matti Hatava in the first round. Hatava was only the 58th seed, but managed to beat Terry with 105–104.
Together with Wills and Larry Godfrey he also took part in the team event. With his 670 score from the ranking round combined with the 661 of Wills and the 657 of Godfrey the British were in fifth position after the ranking round.
In the first elimination round they faced the Chinese team and got eliminated with 214–210.
At the Terry reached the last 32, losing to Dan Olaru. In the team event, Great Britain lost to Ukraine in the last 16.