olympics

Roll out the barrel

Posted on September 23, 2019 by towens — 1 Comment ↓

Hugh Soar looks back over the history of the barrelled arrow Of the five arrow profiles recovered from the Tudor warship Mary Rose, two are of particular note; those that taper from a thicker centre to both head and string…

Tagged with: archer, archers, archery, arrows, barrel, barrelled arrow, easton x10, gun, high soar, Jim Easton, longbow, nock, olympics, outdoor, roger ascham, shooting, the british archer, world record
Posted in Features

Compound in the Olympics: will it ever happen?

Posted on July 8, 2019 by towens — No Comments ↓

Will we see compound archery in the Olympics, and if so when? It is a common question in archery circles, and is entirely understandable from the perspective of compound shooters that see almost all modern competitions allowing multiple bowstyles. Yet…

Tagged with: bow, bowstyles, competition, compound, IOC, london 2012, los angeles 2028, mixed team, olympics, paris 2024, recurve, Tokyo 2020, world archery, World Games
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What’s up with Korea?

Posted on July 5, 2019 by towens — No Comments ↓

The disaster for the Korean squad in Den Bosch had been on the cards for a while. While everyone involved in archery, and many in the wider world of sport, knows about the dominance of South Korean recurve teams, especially…

Tagged with: archery, Bow International, Den Bosch, international, kaa, korea, olympics, recurve, south korea, sport, tokyo, world championships
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The rise and rise of Casey Kaufhold

Posted on April 12, 2019 by towens — No Comments ↓

Still only 15, the USA’s newest star talks to Bow… At the start of 2018, in the U.S. National Indoor Championships, at just 13 years old, Kaufhold destroyed the senior, junior and cadet national records with a score of 1162…

Tagged with: Casey Kaufhold, GT Open, national championships, olympics, tokyo, tokyo olympics, U.S national indoor championships, usa, vegas, world cup
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Archery Commonwealth Games bid submitted

Posted on March 1, 2019 by towens — No Comments ↓

An archery delegation presented a proposal to the event’s Additional Sports Review Panel. Archery GB has confirmed that it has delivered a proposal for archery’s inclusion in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games as an additional optional sport. The organisation was…

Bow proposes: a radical audience-grabbing idea!

Posted on February 14, 2019 by towens — 1 Comment ↓

Occasionally here at Bow International, we like to do a bit of blue sky thinking about the future of the sport… There has been speculation for many years about how archery could develop new formats, usually with the goal of…

Tagged with: archery, archery gb, athleticism, audience, blue sky thinking, bow, eight seconds, events, field, formats, head-to-head, IOC, medal, mixed team, olympics, pj deloche, shot cycle, sophie dodemont, speed, speed shooting, sport, strategy, Tokyo 2020, Tom Dielen, tournaments, trad, TV, twenty20, world cup
Posted in Features, Opinion

Roma Archery Trophy 2018

Posted on December 28, 2018 by towens — No Comments ↓

A wide open field in the Eternal City. They expected 500. They got just over 648. The inaugural Roma Archery Trophy was a success. A major indoor event in Rome had been on the cards for a while for Fitarco,…