The number of archers that will compete at the next Youth Olympic Games is set to increase by 50% to a total of 96. Held in Senegal, Dakar 2022 will make history as the first Olympic event to take place…
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2019: Asian Championships
You thought the outdoor season was over? One tournament was left: the Asian Archery Championships. This and its corresponding para tournament, which wrapped up in October, were also qualifiers for Tokyo next year. With many of the highest-ranked archery nations…
Roll out the barrel
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
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Compound in the Olympics: will it ever happen?
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?
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
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
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…
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Bow proposes: a radical audience-grabbing idea!
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
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Interview: Lisa Unruh
Lisa Unruh dazzled her home country in Rio – and hasn’t stopped winning since. We find out how just how she does it.
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