World Archery

World Archery
Use	Sport
Proportion	3:5
Adopted	1 April 2012
Design	White field with a WA logo

World Archery
Abbreviation	WA (formerly FITA)
Formation	4 September 1931; 93 years ago
Founded at	Lwow, Poland (today Lviv, Ukraine)
Type	Federation of national associations
Headquarters	Lausanne, Switzerland
Region served	Worldwide
Membership	159 national and other associations
Official language	English
President	Uğur Erdener
First Vice-president	Mario Scarzella
Affiliations	International Olympic Committee, International World Games Association
Website	worldarchery.sport

World Archery (WA, formerly Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc (FITA)) is the governing body of the sport of archery. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is composed of 156 national federations and other archery associations, and is recognised by the International Olympic Committee.

History

FITA was founded on 4 September 1931 in Lwow, Poland (today Lviv, Ukraine). Its seven founding member states were France, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Poland, the United States, Hungary, and Italy.^[1] The aim of the organization was to create regular archery championships, and to return archery to the Olympic Games (the sport had not been featured since 1920). FITA was finally successful in returning archery to the Olympic program in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

To celebrate the organization's 80th anniversary in July 2011, a large majority of the FITA Congress voted to change the name from FITA to the World Archery or WA.^[2]

In March 2022, in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the federation announced that no athlete, team official, or technical official from Russia or Belarus will be permitted to participate in any international archery event, their flags and anthems are banned, and no archery events would be held in the two countries.^[3]

In July 2023, on the question that whether or not to re-allow athletics with Russian and/or Belarusian passports to participant international archery competitions under neutral identities, World Archery asked both national archery federations to submit personal datas for investigations, as both federations denied to complete such requirements, WA said that it's unlikely to allow neutral athletes unless once procedure can be completely followed.^[4]

In December 2023, World Archery launched its own OTT Service with a subscription video on demand model and live streaming of main events.^[5]

Identity

Flag

The WA flag has a white background, with the organization's logo in the middle.^[6]^[7]

Member associations

As of April 2019, 159 national federations and other associations are members of World Archery.^[8]

Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Argentina
Armenia
American Samoa
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belgium
Benin
Bermuda
Belarus
Bhutan
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Bulgaria
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Cambodia
Canada
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Costa Rica
Côte d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
DR Congo
Denmark
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Eritrea
Estonia
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Great Britain
Greece
Guatemala
Guinea
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong, China
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Macedonia
Malawi
Malaysia
Malta
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Mongolia
Morocco
Myanmar
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norfolk Island
North Korea
Norway
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Samoa
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Tahiti
Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)
Tajikistan
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
US Virgin Islands
Zimbabwe

Rankings

World Archery publishes world rankings for each category of outdoor competitive archery (men / women; recurve / compound; individual / team / mixed team), updated following every official eligible event.^[9]

Each archer earns a ranking score for each competition. The ranking scores are calculated through a combination of the ranking factor of the tournament (as determined by the quality of competition, the number of competitors, and how recently the competition took place) and points based on the competitor's final position in the competition. The archer's four highest ranking scores are then combined to form their 'Added Ranking Score', which forms the basis of the ranking list.^[10]

Current rankings

Current number one ranked archers

Updated: October 2024

Discipline	Men	Women	Men's Team	Women's Team	Mixed Team
Recurve	Kim Woo-jin (KOR)	Lim Si-hyeon (KOR)	South Korea	South Korea	South Korea
Compound	Mike Schloesser (NED)	Ella Gibson (GBR)	India	India	United States

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Editions

The following table shows the venue of all World Championships on the current World Archery programme:

	Denotes inaugural event

Year	World Championships
Year	Outdoor	Indoor	Youth	Para	Field	University	3D
1931	Lwów
1932	Warsaw
1933	London
1934	Båstad
1935	Brussels
1936	Prague
1937	Paris
1938	London
1939	Oslo
1946	Stockholm
1947	Prague
1948	London
1949	Paris
1950	Copenhagen
1952	Brussels
1953	Oslo
1955	Helsinki
1957	Prague
1958	Brussels
1959	Stockholm
1960
1961	Oslo
1962
1963	Helsinki
1965	Västerås
1966
1967	Amersfoort
1968
1969	Valley Forge				Valley Forge
1970
1971	York				Cardiff
1973	Grenoble
1974					Zagreb
1975	Interlaken
1977	Canberra
1979	Berlin
1981	Punta Ala
1982					Kingsclere
1983	Los Angeles
1984					Hyvinkää
1985	Seoul
1986					Radstadt
1987	Adelaide
1989	Lausanne
1990					Loen
1991	Kraków	Oulu	Sandefjord
1992					Margraten
1993	Antalya	Perpignan	Moliets-et-Maa
1994			Roncegno		Vertus
1995	Jakarta	Birmingham
1996			Chula Vista		Kranjska Gora	Vaulx-en-Velin
1997	Victoria	Istanbul
1998			Sunne	Stoke Mandeville	Obergurgl	Taoyuan
1999	Riom	Havana		Christchurch
2000			Belfort		Cortina d'Ampezzo	Madrid
2001	Beijing	Florence		Nymburk
2002			Nymburk		Canberra	Chonburi
2003	New York	Nîmes		Madrid			Sully-sur-Loire
2004			Lilleshall		Plitvice	Madrid
2005	Madrid	Aalborg		Massa Carrara			Genoa
2006			Mérida		Gothenburg	Viničné
2007	Leipzig	İzmir		Cheongju			Sopron
2008			Antalya		Llwynypia	Tainan
2009	Ulsan	Rzeszów	Ogden	Nymburk			Latina
2010					Visegrád	Shenzhen
2011	Turin		Legnica	Turin			Donnersbach
2012		Las Vegas
2013	Belek		Wuxi	Bangkok			Sassari
2014		Nîmes
2015	Copenhagen		Yankton	Donaueschingen			Terni
2016		Ankara
2017	Mexico City		Rosario	Beijing			Wrocław
2018		Yankton
2019	's-Hertogenbosch		Madrid	's-Hertogenbosch			Lac La Biche
2021	Yankton		Wrocław		Yankton
2022				Dubai			Terni
2023	Berlin		Limerick	Plzeň

Events

Summer Olympics

Archery was first competed at the Summer Olympic Games in 1900 and, after a long hiatus from 1924, became a regular event from 1972. Team events were added in 1988. Recurve archery is currently the only discipline competed at the Olympics.

Archery is also competed at the Summer Paralympics (recurve and compound disciplines), the Youth Olympic Games (recurve only), and the World Games (Field archery only).

World Championships

FITA began holding Target World Championships in 1931. They were held every year until 1959, when the Championships became biennial events. 1959 was also the first year that FITA held the World Field Championship.

Presently, there are five principal formats of the World Archery Championships: Outdoor, Indoor, Youth, Para-Archery, and Field. Each is held every two years on different rotations. World Championships are also held every two years in 3D archery and University sport. In 2007, a ski archery World Championships was held in Moscow; this is yet to be repeated and is not included in the current rotation.^[12]

Number	Events	First	Last
1	World Outdoor Target Championships	1931	2019 (50th)
2	World Indoor Target Championships	1991	2018 (14th)
3	World Field Archery Championships	1969	2018 (26th)
4	World 3D Archery Championships	2003	2019 (9th)
5	World Ski Archery Championships	1999	2017 (10th)
6	World Para Archery Championships	1998	2019 (12th)
7	World Youth Archery Championships	1991	2019 (16th)
8	World University Archery Championships	1996	2016 (11th)

World Cup

The Archery World Cup is an annual event that was inaugurated in 2006. It is designed to present archery in 'spectacular' locations.^[13]

The format consists of 4 rounds competed across the world during a calendar year. The best individual and mixed team performers across these rounds are then invited to compete in the World Cup Final at the end of the year.^[14]

An indoor World Cup, competed in 3 rounds with a final during the winter season, was inaugurated in the 2010–11 season.

Other

Archery is an optional sport at the Universiade and the Commonwealth Games.

Current champions

The following archers are the current champions of the major World Archery Federation events:

Discipline	Event	Summer Olympics 2024	World Championships 2023	World Cup Series Final 2024
Recurve	Men's Individual	Kim Woo-jin (KOR)	Mete Gazoz (TUR)	Kim Woo-jin (KOR)
	Women's Individual	Lim Si-hyeon (KOR)	Marie Horáčková (CZE)	Li Jiaman (CHN)
	Men's Team	South Korea (KOR) Kim Je-deok Kim Woo-jin Lee Woo-seok	South Korea Kim Je-deok Kim Woo-jin Lee Woo-seok
	Women's Team	South Korea (KOR) Jeon Hun-young Lim Si-hyeon Nam Su-hyeon	Germany Katharina Bauer Michelle Kroppen Charline Schwarz
	Mixed Team	South Korea (KOR) Lim Si-hyeon Kim Woo-jin	South Korea Lim Si-hyeon Kim Woo-jin
Compound	Men's Individual		Ojas Pravin Deotale (IND)	James Lutz (USA)
	Women's Individual		Aditi Gopichand Swami (IND)	Sara López (COL)
	Men's Team		Poland Rafał Dobrowolski Przemysław Konecki Łukasz Przybylski
	Women's Team		India Parneet Kaur Aditi Gopichand Swami Jyothi Surekha Vennam
	Mixed Team		United States Alexis Ruiz Sawyer Sullivan

Presidents

Period	Name	Country
1931	Mieczysław Fularski	Poland
1931 – 1939	Bronisław Pierzchała	Poland
1946 – 1949	Paul Demare	France
1949 – 1957	Henry Kjellson	Sweden
1957 – 1961	Oscar Kessels	Belgium
1961 – 1977	Inger Kristine Frith	United Kingdom
1977 – 1989	Francesco Gnecchi-Ruscone	Italy
1989 – 2005	James L. Easton	United States
2005 –	Uğur Erdener	Turkey

References

^ "History of World Archery". World Archery Federation. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
^ Mieville, Didier. "Darrell Pace Named Athlete of Century; FITA Becomes World Archery Federation". World Archery Communications. FITA Communication. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
^ "Russia and Belarus prohibited from participating in international events". World Archery.
^ "Update on eligibility of athletes with Russian/Belarusian passport issued at World Archery Congress". World Archery. 27 July 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
^ Kasule, Melissa (12 December 2023). "World Archery taps Joymo to launch dedicated OTT platform - Digital TV Europe". Digital TV Europe. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
^ "Olympic qualification procedure released for archery at Paris 2024". World Archery. 12 April 2022.
^ "Book 1, Chapter 1, Art. 1.26.2" (PDF). Southern Counties Archery Society. 15 September 2016.
^ "Members". World Archery. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013.
^ "Search". Archived from the original on 31 August 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
^ "Search" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
^ "World Rankings - World Archery". worldarchery.org.
^ "World Archery > WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS > World Championships Home". Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
^ "Search". Archived from the original on 13 June 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
^ [1] Archived 8 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Official website
Archery.tv (Official Streaming Service)
History of FITA 1931–1961 by Robert Rhode (archived)
Archery Champions by Robert Rhode (archived)

[1] "History of World Archery". World Archery Federation. Retrieved 8 November 2015.

[2] Mieville, Didier. "Darrell Pace Named Athlete of Century; FITA Becomes World Archery Federation". World Archery Communications. FITA Communication. Retrieved 9 January 2011.

[3] "Russia and Belarus prohibited from participating in international events". World Archery.

[4] "Update on eligibility of athletes with Russian/Belarusian passport issued at World Archery Congress". World Archery. 27 July 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2024.

[5] Kasule, Melissa (12 December 2023). "World Archery taps Joymo to launch dedicated OTT platform - Digital TV Europe". Digital TV Europe. Retrieved 29 December 2023.

[6] "Olympic qualification procedure released for archery at Paris 2024". World Archery. 12 April 2022.

[7] "Book 1, Chapter 1, Art. 1.26.2" (PDF). Southern Counties Archery Society. 15 September 2016.

[8] "Members". World Archery. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013.

[9] "Search". Archived from the original on 31 August 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2013.

[10] "Search" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2013.

[11] "World Rankings - World Archery". worldarchery.org.

[12] "World Archery > WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS > World Championships Home". Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2012.

[13] "Search". Archived from the original on 13 June 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2012.

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v t e National members of the World Archery
Disciplines Run archery Archery
Asia (WAA)	AFG BAN BHU CAM CHN HKG INA IND IRI IRQ JPN KAZ KGZ KOR KSA LAO LIB MAC MAS MGL MYA NEP PAK PHI PRK QAT SIN SRI THA TJK TKM TPE UZB VIE
Europe (WAE)	ARM AUT AZE BEL BIH BLR BUL CRO CYP CZE DEN ESP EST FIN FRA FRO GBR GEO GER GRE HUN IRL ISL ISR ITA KOS LAT LIE LTU LUX MDA MKD MLT MNE MON NED NOR POL POR ROU RUS SLO SMR SRB SUI SVK SWE TUR UKR
Africa (FAA)	ALG BEN BOT CMR CAF CHD COD EGY ERI GAB GHA GUI KEN LBA MRI MAR MTN NAM NIG NGR SEN SLE SOM RSA TOG TUN UGA
Oceania (OAC)	ASA AUS FIJ GUM KIR New Caledonia NZL NFI PLW PNG SAM SOL Tahiti Tonga VAN
Americas (WAA)	ARG BER BAR BRA CAN PAN PAR PER PUR TTO URU USA VEN
Pinnacle Events World Archery Championships FITA Archery World Cup Archery at the Summer Olympics

v t e Archery
History Chinese Japanese Turkish History of crossbows Modern competitive archery World Archery Federation World Archery Rankings
Topics	Archer's paradox Mounted archery Ballista elephant Yabusame Run archery
Bows (yumi) Bow shape	Arbalest Austroasiatic crossbow Cable-backed bow Composite bow Compound bow Crossbow English longbow Flatbow Gakgung Holmegaard bow Laminated bow Longbow Mongol bow Recurve bow Self bow Takedown bow Welsh bow
Equipment	Arrow Ya Arrowhead Bowstring Bracer Cresting machine Finger tab Fletching Flu-flu arrow Release aid Quarrel Quiver Target Thumb ring
Activities	Bowfishing Bowhunting Bowyer Clout archery Field archery Popinjay Target archery
Competitions	Olympics Youth World Championships Youth World Cup Paralympics Universiade World University Archery Championships Military World Games Continental Africa Americas Asia Europe Naadam
Category Glossary

v t e International sports federations
ASOIF (30+2) Summer Olympics Federations	WAqu (aquatic sports) WA (archery) WAth (athletics) BWF (badminton) WBSC (baseball, softball and Baseball5) (associate) FIBA (basketball) ICF (canoeing) UCI (cycling) WDSF (dance sport) (associate) FEI (equestrian) FIE (fencing) FIFA (football) IGF (golf) FIG (gymnastics) IHF (handball) FIH (field hockey) IJF (judo) UIPM (modern pentathlon) WSK (roller sports) FISA (rowing) WR (rugby union) WS (sailing) ISSF (shooting) IFSC (sport climbing) ISA (surfing) ITTF (table tennis) WT (taekwondo) ITF (tennis) WT (triathlon) FIVB (volleyball) IWF (weightlifting) UWW (wrestling)
AIOWF (7) Winter Olympics Federations	IBU (biathlon) IBSF (bobsleigh and skeleton) WC (curling) IIHF (ice hockey) FIL (luge) ISU (skating sports) FIS (skiing and snowboarding sports)
ARISF (39) Others recognised by IOC	FAI (air sports) IFAF (American football) FIA (auto racing) FIB (bandy) WBSC (baseball, softball and Baseball5) FIPV (basque pelota) WCBS (billiards sports) CMSB (boules) IBF (bowling) WBF (bridge) ICU (cheer) FIDE (chess) ICC (cricket) WDSF (dance sport) IFF (floorball) WFDF (flying disc) IFI (ice stock sport) WKF (karate) WAKO (kickboxing) IKF (korfball) FIL (lacrosse) ILSF (life saving) FIM (motorcycle sport) UIAA (mountaineering) IFMA (muaythai) WN (netball) IOF (orienteering) FIP (polo) UIM (powerboating) IRF (racquetball) FIAS (sambo) ISMF (ski mountaineering) WSF (squash) IFS (sumo) TWIF (tug-of-war) CMAS (underwater sports) FISU (university sports) IWWF (waterski and wakeboard) IWUF (wushu)
AIMS (20) Others in SportAccord	IAF (aikido) WAF (arm wrestling) IFBB (bodybuilding) ICSF (casting) WDF (darts) IDBF (dragon boat) FMJD (draughts) IFA (fistball) IGF (go) JJIF (ju-jitsu) FIK (kendo) WMF (minigolf) IPF (powerlifting) IPSC (practical shooting) FISav (savate) ISTAF (sepak takraw) ISFF (sleddog) ISTF (soft tennis) CIPS (sport fishing) FITEQ (teqball)
former GAISF observer members (11)	WDA (dodgeball) FIFG (footgolf) IJRU (jump rope) IUKL (kettlebell lifting) FISO (obstacle) IPF (padel) IFMP (poker) IPSF (pole dance) IRF (rafting) IRL (rugby league) ITSF (table football/soccer)
Others	WEKAF (arnis) AFLC (Australian rules football) WBGF (backgammon) ISBHF (ball hockey) IBA (bodyboarding) WB (bowls) IBA¹ (boxing) WB² (boxing) SJJIF (Brazilian jiu-jitsu) IFBA (broomball) WCF (croquet) WDBF (dodgeball) ICFRA (fullbore rifle) IGAA (Gaelic football and hurling) ATSX (downhill ice cross) IKF (kabaddi) IKF (kempo) FISLY (landsailing) IMMAF (mixed martial arts) WMRA (mountain running) ORSI (ocean rowing) IPF (pickleball) IQA (quidditch) IFMAR (radio-controlled racing) IRF (rogaining) WSSF (snowshoe running) ISF (skyrunning) WSSA (sport stacking) ITHF (table hockey) ITPF (tent pegging) FIT (touch football) ITRA (trail running) IAU (ultra running)
International Olympic Committee International World Games Association SportAccord ¹ IOC recognition withdrawn ² Seeking IOC recognition

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