World Archery has confirmed the withdrawal of South Korea from three Archery World Cup events ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics due to travel restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Archery Canada has announced that Winnipeg is a candidate city to host the 2025 World Archery Youth Championships.
Hosts Mexico and Brazil dominated proceedings in the individual medal matches in the recurve and compound open categories at the Pan American Archery Championships in Monterrey.
The first medals of the Pan and Parapan American Archery Championships were decided in Monterrey, Mexico in the mixed team disciplines today.
World Archery has published updated electoral procedures prior to the organisation’s 2021 Congress in Yankton later this year.
World Archery is set to resume its qualification process for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games at the Pan American Championships in Monterrey.
Inger Frith was never world or Olympic champion but 60 years ago she broke new ground as President of World Archery, then known by the French name Federation Internationale de Tir a L’Arc (FITA).
Top seeds Lancaster Archery Supply won the recurve discipline at the Indoor Archery World Series Finals.
Arc Système defeated Team Easton in a one-arrow shoot-out to win the compound competition in the new format team-only Indoor Archery World Series Finals involving four top squads connected via video.
The top four squads in the recurve and compound rankings are set to connect via video to compete in this weekend’s team-only Indoor Archery World Series Finals.
Para-archers are set to compete on the international stage for the first time in 12 months when Dubai plays host to the Fazza Para Archery World Ranking Tournament.
A full Archery World Cup season has been planned for this year after the competition was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
World Archery has announced this year’s Pan American Championships will split between Monterrey and Medellin due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Estonian Lisell Jäätma defended her women’s compound crown at the Sud de France Nimes Archery Tournament with victory over compatriot Meeri-Marita Paas.
Croatia’s Alen Remar advanced to the quarter-finals of the Sud de France Nimes Archery Tournament, one of World Archery’s biggest in-person events to have been staged since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
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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The coronavrius pandemic has had a profound impact on sport, but many elite athletes have also made their impact felt during the health crisis, working on the medical frontline and in some cases sacrificing their chances of sporting success for the good of public health. Mike Rowbottom reports.
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