World Archery Championships

World Archery Championships
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Status	active
Genre	sporting event
Date(s)	varying
Frequency	annual
Country	varying
Inaugurated	1931 (1931)

The World Archery Championships are a series of competitions in Archery organised by the World Archery Federation (WA). The first competition held under that title took place in 1931.

Competition archery takes a wide variety of formats, but the title World Championships is commonly reserved for the following three events:^[1]

1. Outdoor World Championships in target Archery
2. Indoor World Championships in target Archery
3. World Championships in field Archery.

Of these, the Outdoor World Championships in target Archery is most commonly referred to as simply the 'World Archery Championships', and the winners most commonly referred to as simply "world champions". Events in those outdoor championships are held involving fixed targets at set distances, using a variety of bows, the recurve bow from 1931 and the compound bow since 1995.

Although less widely recognised, World Championship events are also held in Youth archery (outdoor only - field and indoor youth events are held alongside the senior championships), Para-archery, University archery and 3D archery. A ski archery World Championships was last held in 2007, but is not part of the current rotation.^[2] Following the accession of archery to permanent sports at the Summer Universiade, the university world championships will also cease to be part of the World Archery Championships rotation in 2014.^[2]

World Archery Championships Events[]

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)

And for the divisions as defined in their respective chapters:

• World Archery Flight Championships;
• World Archery Ski Championships;
• World Archery Run Championships.

Despite the above provision, a World Championship does not have to be awarded if the Executive Board determines it is not appropriate.

• https://rulebook.worldarchery.org/PDF/Official/2019-04-01/EN-Book2.pdf
• https://worldarchery.org/rulebook/article/8

Outdoor[]

Number	Year	Location	Events
1	1931	Lwów	2
2	1932	Warsaw	2
3	1933	London	4
4	1934	Båstad	4
5	1935	Brussels	4
6	1936	Prague	4
7	1937	Paris	4
8	1938	London	4
9	1939	Oslo	4
10	1946	Stockholm	4
11	1947	Prague	4
12	1948	London	4
13	1949	Paris	4
14	1950	Copenhagen	4
15	1952	Brussels	4
16	1954	Oslo	4
17	1955	Helsinki	4
18	1957	Prague	4
19	1958	Brussels	4
20	1959	Stockholm	4
21	1961	Oslo	4
22	1963	Helsinki	4
23	1965	Västerås	4
24	1967	Amersfoort	4
25	1969	Valley Forge	4
26	1971	York	4
27	1973	Grenoble	4
28	1975	Interlaken	4
29	1977	Canberra	4
30	1979	West Berlin	4
31	1981	Punta Ala	4
32	1983	Los Angeles	4
33	1985	Seoul	4
34	1987	Adelaide	4
35	1989	Lausanne	4
36	1991	Kraków	4
37	1993	Antalya	4
38	1995	Jakarta	8
39	1997	Victoria	8
40	1999	Riom	8
41	2001	Beijing	8
42	2003	New York	8
43	2005	Madrid	8
44	2007	Leipzig	8
45	2009	Ulsan	8
46	2011	Turin	10
47	2013	Antalya	10
48	2015	Copenhagen	10
49	2017	Mexico City	10
50	2019	's-Hertogenbosch	10
51	2021	Yankton	10
52		Berlin	10
53		Gwangju[3][4]

Indoor[]

Number	Year	Location	Events
1	1991	Oulu	4
2	1993	Perpignan	4
3	1995	Birmingham	8
4	1997	Istanbul	8
5	1999	Havana	8
6	2001	Florence	8
7	2003	Nîmes	8
8	2005	Aalborg	8
9	2007	Izmir	16
10	2009	Rzeszów	16
11	2012	Las Vegas	16
12	2014	Nîmes	16
13	2016	Ankara	16
14	2018	Yankton	16

Field[]

Number	Year	Location	Events
1	1969	Valley Forge
2	1971	Cardiff
3	1972	Gorizia
4	1974	Zagreb
5	1976	Mölndal
6	1978	Geneva
7	1980	Palmerston North
8	1982	Kingsclere
9	1984	Hyvinkää
10	1986	Radstadt
11	1988	Bolzano
12	1990	Loen
13	1992	Margraten
14	1994	Vertus
15	1996	Kranjska Gora
16	1998	Obergurgl
17	2000	Cortina
18	2002	Canberra
19	2004	Plitvice
20	2006	Gothenburg
21	2008	Llwynypia
22	2010	Visegrád
23	2012	Val d'Isère
24	2014	Zagreb
25		Dublin
26		Cortina
27		Yankton

3D[]

Number	Year	Location	Events
1		Sully-sur-Loire	8
2		Genoa	8
3		Sopron	10
4		Latina	10
5		Donnersbach	10
6	2013	Sassari	10
7		Terni	10
8		Avignon	10
9		Lac la Biche	10

Ski Archery[]

The 8th Ski Archery World Championships held in Moscow in Russia in 2013.^[5]

Number	Year	Location	Events
1		-
2		-
3		-
4
5
6
7
8		Moscow
9
10

Para[]

Number	Year	Location	Events
1		Stoke Mandeville
2		Christchurch
3		Nymburk
4		Madrid
5		Massa Carrara
6		Cheongju
7		Nymburk
8		Turin
9	2013	Bangkok
10
11		Beijing
12		Hertogenbosch

• https://www.ianseo.net/Details.php?toId=818 - 2015
• http://ianseo.net/Details.php?toId=2040 - 2017

Youth[]

Number	Year	Location	Events
1		Sandefjord
2		Moliets
3		Roncegno
4		Chula Vista
5		Sunne
6		Belfort
7		Nymburk
8		Lilleshall
9		Mérida
10		Antalya
11		Ogden
12		Legnica
13	2013	Wuxi	20
14	2015	Yankton	20
15	2017	Rosario	20
16	2019	Madrid	20
17	2021	Wroclaw	20
18
19		Winnepeg[6]

University[]

Number	Year	Location	Events
1		Vaulx-en-Velin
2		Taoyuan
3		Madrid
4		Chonburi
5		Madrid
6		Viničné
7		Tainan
8		Shenzhen
9		Córdoba
10		Legnica
11		Ulaanbaatar
12		[[]]
13		[[]]

See also[]

• Asian Archery Championships
• African Archery Championships
• European Archery Championships
• World Outdoor Archery Championships
• World Indoor Archery Championships
• World Field Archery Championships
• World 3D Archery Championships
• World Ski Archery Championships
• World Para Archery Championship
• World Youth Archery Championships
• World University Archery Championships

References[]

External links[]

• World Archery Federation
• World Archery Indoor Championship