Mete Gazoz became the first Turkish archer to win an Olympic gold medal as he edged out Italian veteran Mauro Nespoli in a tense final of the men's individual competition at Tokyo 2020 here today.
An San became the first athlete from South Korea to become a triple gold medallist at a Summer Olympics after winning the women's individual archery event at the Yumenoshima Park Archery Field.
South Korea's dominance of the archery events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games continued as its men's team of three delivered a masterclass with the bow and arrows to overcome Chinese Taipei in today's final.
South Korea swept away the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) 6-0 at Yumenoshima Park Archery Field to claim their ninth consecutive Olympic gold in women's team archery.
South Korea's An San and Kim Je Deok, 20 and 17 respectively, won the first Olympic archery mixed team gold here by a 5-3 scoreline after a dramatic final set against the more experienced Dutch pairing of Gabrielle Schloesser and Steve Wijler.
Seventeen-year-old Je Deok Kim of South Korea, the youngest archer at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, is gunning for gold after topping the men’s individual recurve qualifying with a score of 688 points.
A Russian archer fainted during the women’s individual ranking round at the Yumenoshima Park Archery Field as temperatures rose to around 33 degrees Celsius.
A documentary on archery in the tiny mountain kingdom of Bhutan - which culminates with the historic qualification of archer Karma for this year's Olympics - is set for release on DVD and online.
The 2022 Commonwealth Archery and Shooting Championships in India have been cancelled because of the coronavirus crisis in the host nation.
India’s Deepika Kumari captured a hat-trick of gold medals at the third stage of the Archery World Cup in Paris.
India's Abhishek Verma and Colombia's Sara Lopez claimed the men's and women's compound titles on the fifth day of the Archery World Cup in Paris.
France collected bronze medals in the recurve men’s, recurve women’s and compound men’s team events in the third stage of the Archery World Cup in Paris today, with The Netherlands claiming third place in the compound women’s team event.
Mike Schloesser became top-scoring qualifier for the compound men individual semi-finals on the third day of the Archery World Cup in Paris - the third in this year’s series.
American archer Brady Ellison and Mexico's Ana Vazquez are among the semi-finalists for the men's and women's recurve competition as confirmed at the end of the second day of the Archery World Cup in Paris.
Mexico's Alejandra Valencia and Moritz Wieser of Germany have topped recurve qualification on the opening day at the Archery World Cup in Paris.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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