Ellis and Killpartrick Opticians in Bath has helped archer, Sarah Fern, win three gold medals at the World Masters Archery Championships by fitting her contact lenses.
Fern had been a long-standing CL patient but recently decided to have laser eye surgery to correct her vision. The surgery was a great success and made one eye emmetropic, while leaving the other slightly myopic to produce a monovision result.
This, however, inhibited her ability to perform to her best in archery as wearing a spectacle lens to correct the remaining myopic eye hindered Fern’s performance.
Instead, she was fitted with a contact lens to correct her myopic eye. She went on to win gold medals for outdoor, indoor and field archery against 356 other contenders at the championships in Lausanne, Switzerland.