There have been 16 Olympic Games since archery made its debut in 1900. Of the 84 countries to enter, France has the most Olympic appearances (31).
South Korean archers have been dominant, winning 27 of the 39 available gold medals at international competitions since 1984.
The World Archery Federation is responsible for its organisation (WA; formerly FITA).
Just one type of archery, recurve, is included in the Olympic Games. The summer Paralympics also feature an archery competition.
Archery World Cup Final 2022, Live Streaming: Season’s Best to Vie for Top Honors – Full Schedule
Over the course of this coming weekend, 32 of the season’s best archers will vie for top honours in the individual events at the Archery World Cup Final 2022 in Tlaxcala, Mexico.
The final international archery competition of 2022 is the Archery World Cup Final, which features both men’s and women’s events for recurve and compound bows.
On Saturday, eight archers will compete in the finals for compound bows, and on Sunday, eight archers will compete in the finals for recurve bows. The event is being broadcast live in India.
The archers made it to the World Cup Final by either topping the leaderboard at one of the four World Cup stages or by steadily moving up the tour rankings.
As hosts, Mexico will be represented in all four archery categories by at least one athlete.
While India did quite well at the archery World Cup this year, finishing with 10 medals overall (including 4 gold).
All of those medals were earned by the Indian team rather than any individual archers.
Live Streaming, Archery World Cup 2022, Gwangju: Tarundeep Rai, Abhishek Verma to Lead Indian Teams
On Tuesday, the second stage of the Archery World Cup 2022 will begin in Gwangju, South Korea, and the Indian team.
Led by Tokyo Olympian Tarundeep Rai and the undefeated Ridhi in mixed team recurve, will begin competition there.
Meanwhile, Abhishek Verma, who won gold in the men’s compound event at the Asian Games, will be the team’s leader.
Last month in Turkey, at Archery World Cup 2022 Stage 1 tournament, the men’s team triumphed, taking home the gold medal.
Both recurve and compound archers can compete in the World Cup. India will send the same 16 archers to the South Korea competition that competed in Turkey.
This includes eight men and eight women. The victors will receive an invitation to the October final of the Archery World Cup.
Top-ranked Indian male recurve archer Atanu Das and Olympian Praveen Jadhav aren’t competing.
But the recurve squad still has London Olympian Jayanta Talukdar, national champion Sachin Gupta, and runners-up Neeraj Chauhan and Tarundeep Rai.
Conclusion
Archery made its Olympic debut at the 1900 Paris Games. The competition had seven events with varied distance requirements.
There were six archery events at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis; three for men and three for women.
Both women’s and team archery were made available for the first time. There were three different archery competitions at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
In contrast to the 1912 Summer Olympics, which did not have archery, the 1920 Summer Olympics did.
