World Archery Federation
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| Abbreviation | WA (formerly FITA) |
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| Formation | 4 September 1931 |
| 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 |
The World Archery Federation (WA, also and formerly known as FITA from the French Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc) 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[edit]
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 Federation or WA.[2]
Member associations[edit]
As of April 2019, 159 national federations and other associations are members of World Archery.[3]
- 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
- Cote 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
- Virgin Islands
- Zimbabwe
Rankings[edit]
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.[4]
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.[5]
Current rankings[edit]
Current number one ranked archers
- Updated 24 August 2019
| Discipline | Men | Men's Team | Women | Women's Team | Mixed Team |
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| Recurve |  Brady Ellison (USA)
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 China
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 Kang Chae-young (KOR)
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 Chinese Taipei
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South Korea
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| Compound |  Mike Schloesser (NED)
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 Turkey
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 Natalia Avdeeva (RUS)
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United States
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 Denmark
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Summary Championships[edit]
The following table shows the venue of all World Championships on the current World Archery programme:
| Denotes inaugural event |
Events[edit]
Summer Olympics[edit]
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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 Cup[edit]
The Archery World Cup is an annual event that was inaugurated in 2006. It is designed to present archery in 'spectacular' locations.[7]
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.[8]
An indoor World Cup, competed in 3 rounds with a final during the winter season, was inaugurated in the 2010–11 season.
World Championships[edit]
- World Target Championships
- World Field Archery Championships
- World 3D Archery Championships
- World Ski Archery Championships
- World Para Archery Championships
- World Youth Archery Championships
- World University Archery 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.[9]
| 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) |
Other[edit]
Archery is an optional sport at the Universiade and the Commonwealth Games.
Current champions[edit]
The following archers are the current champions of the major World Archery Federation events:
| Discipline | Event | Summer Olympics 2016 |
World Championships 2019 |
World Cup Final 2019 |
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| Recurve | Men's Individual | Ku Bon-chan (KOR)
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Brady Ellison (USA)
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Brady Ellison (USA)
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| Women's Individual | Chang Hye-jin (KOR)
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Lei Chien-ying (TPE)
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Kang Chae-young (KOR)
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| Men's Team |  South Korea (KOR)Ku Bon-chan Lee Seung-yun Kim Woo-jin |
China Ding Yiliang Feng Hao Wei Shaoxuan |
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| Women's Team | South Korea (KOR) Chang Hye-jin Choi Mi-sun Ki Bo-bae |
Chinese Taipei Lei Chien-ying Peng Chia-mao Tan Ya-ting | ||
| Mixed Team | South Korea Kim Woo-jin Kang Chae-young |
South Korea Chang Hye-jin Kim Woojin | ||
| Compound | Men's Individual | James Lutz (USA)
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Mike Schloesser (NED)
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| Women's Individual | Natalia Avdeeva (RUS)
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 Sara López (COL)
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| Men's Team | South Korea Choi Yong-hee Kim Jong-ho Yang Jae-won |
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| Women's Team | Chinese Taipei Chen Li-ju Chen Yi-hsuan Huang I-jou | |||
| Mixed Team | South Korea Kim Jong-ho So Chae-won |
Denmark Braden Gellenthien Alexis Ruiz |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "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.
- ^ [1] Archived 28 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Search". Archived from the original on 13 June 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- ^ [2] Archived 8 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20130624022220/http://www.worldarchery.org/en-us/worldchampionships/worldchampionshipshome.aspx. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2012. Missing or empty
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