It was Terry's second medal winning performance in this year's World Cup series, having taken the bronze at the Santo Domingo event in April.

 

It also means he moves up to second in the men's recurve overall standings with one round to go with the top four after the final qualifying tournament, in Shanghai, go through to the Grand Final, in Copenhagen, in September.

 

Terry beat the 2008 Olympic Champion Victor Ruban on his way to this success and also defeated the highly rated Korean Jin Hyek Oh in the quarter-finals.

 

After seeing off India's Jayanta Talukdar in the semis, he then beat Frenchman Thomas Aubert 110-106 to secure the gold medal.

 

Terry said: "I am very pleased with this gold medal, obviously.

 

"I have been shooting well all the week long.

 

"I am getting more used to head-to-head matches.

 

"I kept the same settings from the training field so I didn’t really suffer from the wind.

 

"I mean shooting 110 points with a six is a pretty good thing."

 

Terry, a 35-year-old lorry driver from Grantham who won two bronze medals at the 1992 Olympics before giving up the sport for 10 years, was even praised by Aubert.

 

He said: "Simon has been impressive, especially when he started the match with four tens in a row."
 

Sara Symington, the Archery GB performance director, said:  "It's a fantastic performance from Simon.

 

"He has been outstanding all week and thoroughly deserves this.

 

"He has worked really hard, been superbly supported by his team-mates, and now has a wonderful chance to go through to the World Cup Grand Final."

 

Also in with a chance of reaching the Grand Final is Nicky Hunt in the women's compound.

 

Gold medalist in the last tournament in Porec, Croatia, she fell at the quarter-final stage on this occasion, but secured fifth place as the highest last eight loser, and is now fifth in the overall standings.